Simon Willison’s Weblog

Nmap 5.00 Release Notes. Released today, “the most important Nmap release since 1997”. New features include Ncat, a powerful netcat alternative, Ndiff, a utility for comparing scan results so you can spot changes to your network, and a new Nmap Scripting Engine using Lua.

# 16th July 2009, 7:40 pm / lua, ncat, ndiff, netcat, nmap, releases, security, tools

How we use IRC at Last.fm. With IRCCat, an elegant Java IRC bot that accepts Twitter-like messages to a network port (generally sent using netcat) and directs them to a user or channel.

# 8th January 2009, 7:04 pm / irc, irccat, java, lastfm, nc, netcat, richardjones