The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) built into Nmap runs scripts to scan for well-known vulnerabilities in the network infrastructure.

There are five major developments in the latest version of this popular open source network discovery and security auditing tool: major expansion of the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE), mature IPv6 ...

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the government agency that leads UK's cyber security mission, is releasing NMAP Scripting Engine scripts to help defenders scan for and ...

Earlier versions of Nmap offered some IPv6 tools, namely port scans, basic host discovery, version detection, and use of the scripting engine.

Sourcefire and Insecure.org have inked an agreement to develop open source vulnerability scanning tools based on Insecure's Nmap scripting engine. By Robert Westervelt, TechTarget Published: 24 ...

Once you're set up, run the sudo apt install nmap command in the terminal to install Nmap. Then scan for vulnerabilities on open ports: nmap --script vuln [your external IP address] ...