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Nmap 7.80 DEF CON Release: First Stable Version in Over a Year

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 20 2019, @08:43AM   Printer-friendly
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Nmap 7.80 DEF CON Release: First Stable Version in Over a Year

In a post to the "Nmap Announce" mailing list, developer Gordon Lyon announced the release of Nmap 7.80 while attending the DEF CON security conference.

"I'm here in Las Vegas for Defcon and delighted to release Nmap 7.80.  It's the first formal Nmap release in more than a year, and I hope you find it worth the wait!"

With this release, Nmap is updated to version 7.80 and contains numerous improvements to the Npacp[sic] packet capture library, which provides better support for Windows 10 compared to the previous Winpcap library.

[...] Also included in Nmap 7.80 are eleven additional Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) scripts that were contributed by 8 different authors.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday August 20 2019, @04:43PM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday August 20 2019, @04:43PM (#882671)

    It's a handy tool for what it does, but it's not like it's something I use every day. I mostly pull it out when I want to audit my own servers, which happens periodically but not all the friggin' time.

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  • (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 20 2019, @08:45PM (1 child)

    by Fnord666 (652) on Tuesday August 20 2019, @08:45PM (#882776) Homepage

    It's a handy tool for what it does, but it's not like it's something I use every day. I mostly pull it out when I want to audit my own servers, which happens periodically but not all the friggin' time.

    Maybe when I posted the story I should have added the question of whether soylentils use this tool and if so, how frequently do they use it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @06:18PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @06:18PM (#883262)

      Particularly when i am configuring or unconfiguring firewall scripts and need to test out if ports are available/unavailable from a particular network connection.

      Most of my nodes are set to drop all traffic by default and only have ports opened for the set of services I intentionally make public. This means that checking for host availability often requires nmap -Pn on known open ports rather than ping or even just default nmap options to actually see if the system is up.

      While there are a few other tools that can fill the same niche, nmap has been around longest, is comprehensive, and most of the common options I use work on any version dating back to the originals from the 90s-early 00s. I rarely use anything that old, but some distros are/were years behind on their included nmap versions.