📚 Nmap 7.40 Network Security Scanner Makes Brute Scripts Faster and More Accurate

A new stable release of the popular, cross-platform, and open-source Nmap network security scanner software landed on the last minutes of December 20, 2016, versioned 7.40. Nmap 7.40 is here exactly two months after the release of Nmap 7.31, and promises to bring a bunch of exciting new features and goodies that ethical hackers, penetration testers, and security researchers will most definitely love, including the new "--defeat-icmp-ratelimit" option that dramatically reduces UDP scan times. For starters, Nmap 7.40 ships with twelve new NSE scripts, including cics-enum for enumerating CICS transaction IDs, cics-user-enum for brute-forcing usernames for CICS users on TN3270 services, fingerprint-strings for printing ASCII strings found in service fingerprints, and vtam-enum for brute-forcing VTAM app IDs for TN3270 services. The new ip-geolocation-map-bing and ip-geolocation-map-google NSE scripts will help you ren... ...