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Nmap 5 Released!

NmapInsecure.Org announced the release of Nmap Security Scanner version 5.00. This is the first stable release from the 4.76 version last September and the first major update from 4.50 in 2007.

the complete list of changes can be found here: http://nmap.org/changelog.html

and you can download the scanner at this link: http://nmap.org/download.html

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Honeynet Project Discovered a hole in Conficker

Researchers at The Honeynet Project has discovered a vulnerability in the Conficker that makes it easy to detect,The Conficker adds changes in Windows that can be detected remotely by using a various scanning methods which is already integrated into different popular scanning tools.

Members of the Honeynet Project founded that conficker infected host’s respond with error code for some specially crafted RPC messages, now you can find the detection methods that can be used to contain Conficker’s impact in the update and modified version of the scanners (Nessus, ncircle, Qualys and Nmap).

“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster” (Sun Tzu) .So go a head and check your networks against Conficker.

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