NMap turns 10
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Just got this in e-mail. : Hi everyone. I'm proud to say that Nmap has reached its 10thanniversary since I released it in 1997, and it is still going strong!To celebrate that, Nmap 4.50 has been released. It is the firststable release in more than a year (there have been dozens of devreleases), and the first major release since 4.00 two years ago. In related good news, the movie Bourne Ultimatum was released to DVDon Tuesday, and is currently the 3rd highest selling DVD on Amazon.In this movie, the CIA needs to hack the mail server of a newspaper(The Guardian UK) to read the email of a reporter theyassassinated. So they turn to Nmap and its new official GUI Zenmap(part of the 4.50 release)! I have screenshots up onhttp://insecure.org . Nmap has now appeared in at least fivemovies--it has become quite the movie star! The changelog shows 320 changes since 4.00 with a lot of great stuffin this release! It has a brand new GUI and results viewer (Zenmap),a scripting engine allowing you to write your own scripts forhigh-performance network discovery (or use one of the 40 scriptsshipped with it), the 2nd generation OS detection system (now withmore than a thousand fingerprints), nearly 1,500 more versiondetection signatures, and a lot more! You can read the full releaseannouncement, which describes the changes as well as future plans,right here: http://insecure.org/stf/Nmap-4.50-Release.html Or if you are ready to jump right in, head to the download page: http://insecure.org/nmap/download.html We don't have an ad budget, so please help spread the word about thenew Nmap. The 4.00 release made Slashdot, Digg, etc. and this releaseis even better! And of course be sure to try it out yourself! Let us know on thenmap-dev list if you encounter any problems. See http://insecure.org/nmap/man/man-bugs.html . Cheers,Fyodor