A number of weeks ago, I provided and described a script that uses nmap to quickly scan a system or subnet for activity on a particular port. Useful for detecting, say, web servers or Oracle ...

It is certainly well known that “hacker tools” can be used for many legitimate purposes. Nmap, the Network Mapper and security scanner is no exception. These days, it is used routinely to identify the ...

Nmap 7 is finally here, and it comes packed with significant improvements. The culmination of three and a half years of work from more than 100 contributors and almost 3,200 code commits, the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vicarius, developers of the industry’s first fully autonomous end-to-end vulnerability remediation platform, has announced the release of a new free offering—Nmap Scan ...

So far, in my previous articles on Nmap, we've looked at how the scanner can be used to map and audit a network, as well as track down noncompliant devices and services. But hackers can also use Nmap ...