Most popular open source network discovery and security auditing tool Nmap has reached version 6.0.

The new code hit the Net last Monday, complete with a message from coder Gordon Lyon, aka Fyodor, that the new version represents “almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009.”

Fyodor recommends all users upgrade to the new version, so they can get their hands on 289 new scripts and a host of new features.

Top Improvements:

• Enhanced Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE)
• Better Web Scanning
• Full IPv6 Support
• New Nping Tool
• Better Zenmap GUI and Results Viewer
• Faster Scans

Download:
Linux: nmap-6.00.tar.bz2
Windows: nmap-6.00-win32.zip

Joomscan, Joomla Security Scanner is now updated to 611 vulnerabilities database.

In Joomscan you can check for new updates with command: ./joomscan.pl check or ./joomscan.pl update

Overview:
Joomla! is probably the most widely-used CMS out there due to its flexibility, user-friendlinesss, extensibility to name a few. So, watching its vulnerabilities and adding such vulnerabilities as KB to Joomla scanner takes ongoing activity. It will help web developers and web masters to help identify possible security weaknesses on their deployed Joomla! sites. No web security scanner is dedicated only one CMS.

Features:

• Exact version Probing
• Common Joomla! based web application firewall detection
• Searching known vulnerabilities of Joomla! and its components
• Reporting to Text & HTML output
• Immediate update capability via scanner or svn

Requirement:
Perl 5.6 or up

Download: joomscan-latest.zip

A primary focus of this release is the Nmap Scripting Engine, which has allowed Nmap to expand up the protocol stack and take network discovery to the next level. Nmap can now query all sorts of
application protocols, including web servers, databases, DNS servers, FTP, and now even Gopher servers! Remember those? These capabilities are in self-contained libraries and scripts to avoid bloating Nmap’s core engine.

This release isn’t just about NSE. The Nping packet probing and analysis tool (http://nmap.org/nping/) is also added in 5.35DC1. Version 5.50 improves Nping further with an innovative new echo mode (http://bit.ly/nping-echo).

Also added 636 OS fingerprints and 1,037 version detection signatures to Nmap since 5.21, bringing the totals to 2,982 and 7,319, respectively. No other tool comes close.

Download: nmap-5.50-setup.exe