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Is it useful to determine the name of the server software while doing a penetration test?
Getting the name of the server software through netcat or curl or any other method, is really useful?
I mean, OS fingerprinting is useful in order to tailor an attack. For example with regard to OS ...
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OS fingerprinting: can I rely on the results?
Using nmap -O www.example.com I get:
Running (JUST GUESSING): Microsoft Windows 7|2008 (90%)
So I can say the target site is running Windows.
Using xprobe2 -v www.example.com, I'm just astonished ...
