Tuesday 30 March 2010 - 891 read - ( Keywords : Network Discovery , Nmap , Penetration testing & Ethical Hacking )
Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available. Nmap is free and open source (license).0The main changes in this release is the 37 scripts added :
afp-brute
afp-path-vuln
afp-showmount
couchdb-databases
couchdb-stats
daap-get-library
db2-das-info
dns-service-discovery
http-methods
http-vmware-path-vuln
ipidseq
jdwp-version
ldap-brute
ldap-rootdse
ldap-search
lexmark-config
mongodb-databases
mongodb-info
mysql-brute
mysql-databases
mysql-empty-password
mysql-users
mysql-variables
nfs-acls
nfs-dirlist
nfs-statfs
pgsql-brute
qscan
smtp-enum-users
snmp-interfaces
snmp-netstat
snmp-processes
snmp-win32-services
snmp-win32-shares
snmp-win32-software
snmp-win32-users
ssl-enum-ciphers
Changelog :
[NSE] New script afp-path-vuln detects and can exploit a major Mac
OS X AFP directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2010-0533)
discovered by Nmap developer Patrik Karlsson. See
http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/afp-path-vuln.html and
http://bit.ly/nmapafp.
An ALPHA TEST VERSION of Nping, a packet generator written by Luis
MartinGarcia and Fyodor last summer, is now included in the Nmap
distribution. While it works, we consider the application unfinished
and we hope to improve it greatly as a Summer of Code project this
summer and then do an official release. See http://nmap.org/nping/
POSTSCRIPTUM
COMPLIANCE MANDATES
Network Discovery : PCI DSS 11.2, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16CFR Part 314.4(c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5
Penetration testing & Ethical Hacking : PCI DSS 11.3, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16 CFR Part 314.4 (c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5, SI-2, ISO 27001/27002 12.6, 15.2.2
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