NMAP 7.94 Released on 26th Birthday
On the 26th birthday of the popular NMAP network scanner, its new version 7.94 was released. The main innovation was the transition of Zenmap and NDIFF with Python 2 to Python 3 on all platforms.
NMAP 7.94 received a number of improvements, corrections of critical errors, as well as added functions, such as the new NPCAP, OS prints, nse scripts/libraries and other additions.
What is NMAP? NMAP is a free open network scanner, a tool for researching a network that supports many platforms, including Linux, Windows, Unix, etc.
NMAP capabilities include scanning using TCP Connect (), TCP SYN, UDP, ICMP and many other methods. It can also determine the OS of the remote device by its network “print”.
NPCAP, based on the outdated Winpcap library, demonstrates improved speed, portability, and safety. NPCAP works on Windows 7 and later versions.
What’s New in NMAP 7.94?
- Updated NPCAP from version 1.71 to 1.75.
- NMAP now displays the names of equipment manufacturers based on the MAC address.
- The most frequently sent IPV4 OS prints.
- Improved performance oriented to profile.
- Added a script for determining the TFTP version.
- Ncat can now accept “compounds” from many UDP-hosts.
- Many libraries are updated, including Opensl, Zlib, Lua, Libpcap.
- And many other improvements.
A full list of changes in NMAP 7.94, as well as a detailed guide for the use of NMAP, are available on the official website.