AndyCapp corner

We are pleased to release Nmap 4.75, with almost 100 significant improvements since version 4.68. Key Nmap 4.75 changes include:

• Fyodor spent much of this summer scanning tens of millions of IPs on the Internet (plus collecting data contributed by some enterprises) to determine the most commonly open ports. Nmap now uses that empirical data to scan more effectively.
• Zenmap Topology and Aggregation features were added, as discussed in the next news item.
• Hundreds of OS detection signatures were added, bringing the total to 1,503.
• Seven new Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) scripts were added. These automate routing AS number lookups, “Kaminsky” DNS bug vulnerability checking, brute force POP3 authentication cracking, SNMP querying and brute forcing, and whois lookups against target IP space. Many valuable libraries were added as well.
• Many performance improvements and bug fixes were implemented. In particular, Nmap now works again on Windows 2000.

Many of these changes were discussed in Fyodor’s Black Hat and Defcon presentations. The audio and video has now been posted on the presentations page.

Deb package for Ubuntu 8.10 here, nmap and zenmap

Deb package for Debian Etch here, nmap and zenmap