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Nmap 7.80 DEF CON Release: First Stable Version in Over a Year
In a post to the "Nmap Announce" mailing list, developer Gordon Lyon announced the release of Nmap 7.80 while attending the DEF CON security conference.
"I'm here in Las Vegas for Defcon and delighted to release Nmap 7.80. It's the first formal Nmap release in more than a year, and I hope you find it worth the wait!"
With this release, Nmap is updated to version 7.80 and contains numerous improvements to the Npacp[sic] packet capture library, which provides better support for Windows 10 compared to the previous Winpcap library.
[...] Also included in Nmap 7.80 are eleven additional Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) scripts that were contributed by 8 different authors.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @04:14AM
I'm still somewhat suspicious, but it could just be the timing around DEFCON combined with my pretty hat. They put up the tarball and releases, but they are not signed the way all the past ones have been. If I wanted to get a bunch of people, I'd do it by releasing a widely used security tool like Nmap around the time of the biggest hacker convention, when the interest in a new version and risk of being hacked would be highest.