Security News

Nmap 7.93, the 25th anniversary edition, has been released
2022-09-05 04:30

Nmap is a widely used free and open-source network scanner. It works on most operating systems: Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris, and BSD. Nmap 7.93.

How to identify vulnerabilities with NMAP
2022-05-05 03:00

In this video for Help Net Security, Shani Dodge Reiner, Development Team Leader at Vicarius, explains how to identify vulnerabilities using the NMAP tool. NMAP is a very powerful and popular tool for network mapping.

UK govt releasing Nmap scripts to find unpatched vulnerabilities
2022-01-25 18:45

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre, the government agency that leads UK's cyber security mission, is releasing NMAP Scripting Engine scripts to help defenders scan for and remediate vulnerable systems on their networks. The scripts, authored by i100 partners or security experts who want to share their scripts with the community, will be published on GitHub through a new project named Scanning Made Easy.

Week in review: Nmap 7.90 released, new AWS S3 security features, Patch Tuesday forecast
2020-10-11 07:20

Review: Practical Vulnerability Management: A Strategic Approach to Managing Cyber RiskAndrew Magnusson started his information security career 20 years ago and he decided to offer the knowledge he accumulated through this book, to help the reader eliminate security weaknesses and threats within their system. AWS adds new S3 security and access control featuresAmazon Web Services has made available three new S3 security and access control features.

Nmap 7.90 released: New fingerprints, NSE scripts, and Npcap 1.0.0
2020-10-05 08:49

Over a year has passed since Nmap had last been updated, but this weekend Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon announced Nmap 7.90. First and foremost, Nmap 7.90 comes with Npcap 1.0.0, the first completely stable version of the raw packet capturing/sending driver for Windows.

Week in review: New Nmap, lateral phishing tactics, Kubernetes security matures
2019-08-18 16:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Critical Bluetooth flaw opens millions of devices to eavesdropping attacks A newly disclosed vulnerability...

Nmap 7.80 released: A mature Npcap Windows packet capturing driver, 11 new NSE scripts
2019-08-12 10:05

Nmap is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing...

How to update the nmap database
2019-04-22 15:03

Your nmap service probe database is probably out of date. It's easy to update that special file to the latest version.

How to update the Nmap database
2019-04-22 14:59

Your nmap service probe database is probably way out of date. Jack Wallen shows you how to update that special file to the latest version.

Nmap 7.70 released: Better service and OS detection, 9 new NSE scripts, and more!
2018-03-21 12:45

Nmap is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing...