Seclists.Org Upgrades and Nmap Survey Progress

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Happy March, everyone.  I want to start by thanking the 998 people who
have the new Nmap Survey!  That puts us more than half way to the
number of 2003 survey responses, and 40% of the way to our 2006 goal
of 2,500.  I've been peeking at the early results, and they are very
interesting.  Many new tools have been released since the last survey,
and one of those might even break into the top 5 of the new tools
list!  You guys have also left many interesting and useful comments,
security sites, etc.

And for those of you who haven't yet completed the survey, please take
a moment to do so.  If you hurry, you may even be #1000.  Here is the
URL again:

   http://www.insecure.org/nmap/survey.html

Completing the survey gives you the sort of good karma that may make
your scans go faster, crash less often, and generate fewer complaints
to your ISP.  At the very least, it lets you influence Nmap
development without having to write any C++ code.  As soon as we get
to 2500, I'll shut it down and compile results for you all.

In other news, I have added RSS feeds to Seclists.Org, which archives
the best security mailing lists.  This makes it even easier to keep up
with the latest news from Nmap-Hackers, Nmap-Dev, Bugtraq, and all of
the others.  In Firefox, you can just click the feed icon in the URL
bar while viewing a page from your favorite list and add it as a live bookmark or
toolbar button.  I also added Dailydave, a highly technical discussion
list that covers vulnerability research, exploit development, and
security events/gossip.  Oh, and I stayed up late drawing a bunch of
stupid little icons.  You can find all of this at http://seclists.org/ .

Cheers,
Fyodor

PS: Don't forget http://www.insecure.org/nmap/survey.html



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