Agentless Backup is Not a Myth

Popular open source network discovery and security auditing tool Nmap has reached version 6.0.

The new code hit the Net last Monday, complete with a message from coder Gordon Lyon, aka Fyodor, that the new version represents “almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009.”

Fyodor recommends all users upgrade to the new version, so they can get their hands on 289 new scripts and a host of new features. The six he rates most important are:

1. An enhanced scripting engine
2. Better web scanning
3. Full IPv6 support
4. A new Nping tool that can generate all sorts of packets
5. Improvements to the Zenmap GUI (pictured below)
6. Faster scanning

Nmap is very widely used, including in Hollywood … which Fyodor proudly points out has used it in more than a dozen flicks, including The Matrix. ®

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