We're delighted to announce Nmap 6.40 with 14 new NSE scripts, hundreds of new OS and version detection signatures, and many great new features!,.Nmap has been discovered in two new movies! It's used to hack Matt Damon's brain in Elysium and also to launch nuclear missiles in G.I.We're pleased to release our new and Improved Icons of the Web project-a 5-gigapixel interactive collage of the top million sites on the Internet!.Nmap turned 20 years old on September 1, 2017! Celebrate by reading the original Phrack #51 article.Nmap 7.80 was released for DEFCON 27!.After more than 7 years of development and 170 public pre-releases, we're delighted to announce Npcap version 1.00!.Nmap 7.90 has been released with Npcap 1.00 along with dozens of other performance improvements, bug fixes, and feature enhancements!.A Kaspersky spokeswoman at the time did not explicitly deny the claim but complained generally about “false allegations. Former employees told Reuters in July that the company used that technique to help identify suspected hackers.
It also did not say how often it takes uninfected, non-executable files, which normally would pose no threat, from users’ computers. Kaspersky did not respond to questions about its statement, including whether the 2014 incident was its first discovery of Equation Group programs. That gave the NSA almost undetectable presence. Kaspersky’s Equation Group report was one of its most celebrated findings, since it indicated that the group could infect firmware on most computers. At that time, Reuters cited former NSA employees who said that Equation Group was an NSA project. The new 2014 date of the incident is intriguing, because Kaspersky only announced its discovery of an espionage campaign by the Equation Group in February 2015. The company said it found no evidence that it had been hacked by Russian spies or anyone except the Israelis, though it suggested others could have obtained the tools by hacking into the American’s computer through a back door it later spotted there.
It said no third parties saw the code, though the media reports had said the spy tool had ended up in Russian government hands.
“Following a request from the CEO, the archive was deleted from all our systems,” the company said.
The analyst reported the matter to Chief Executive Eugene Kaspersky, who ordered that the company’s copy of the code be destroyed, the company said. While reviewing the file’s contents, an analyst discovered it contained the source code for a hacking tool later attributed to what Kaspersky calls the Equation Group.
It said logs showed that the consumer version of Kaspersky’s popular product had been analyzing questionable software from a US computer and found a zip file that was flagged as malicious. In a statement, the company said it stumbled on the code a year earlier than the recent newspaper reports had it, in 2014. Though Kaspersky offered the sort of plausible explanation that some security experts had predicted, US officials who have been campaigning against Kaspersky’s use on sensitive computers are likely to point to the admission that the company took secret code that was not endangering its customer.