Xmap - A Fast Network Scanner Designed For Performing Internet-wide IPv6 &Amp; IPv4 Network Research Scanning

XMap is a fast network scanner designed for performing Internet-wide IPv6 & IPv4 network research scanning. XMap is reimplemented and improved thoroughly from ZMap and is fully compatible with ZMap, armed with the "5 minutes" probing speed and novel scanning techniques. XMap is capable of scannin...

Zmap - A Fast Single Packet Network Scanner Designed For Internet-wide Network Surveys

ZMap is a fast single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys. On a typical desktop computer with a gigabit Ethernet connection, ZMap is capable scanning the entire public IPv4 address space in under 45 minutes. With a 10gigE connection and PFRING, ZMap can scan the IPv4...

The Facebook Hack Is an Internet-Wide Failure

Major sites using Facebook's Single Sign-On don't implement basic security features, potentially making the fallout of last week's hack much worse...

OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug Exploited Before This Week?

Bruce Schneier stood on the Source Boston keynote stage yesterday and used the word “ginormous” to describe the severity of the OpenSSL heartbleed bug. “My guess is that when heartbleed became public, the top 20 governments in the world started exploiting it immediately,” Schneier said. That’s...