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OS Fingerprinting for Android
Are traditional OS-fingerprinting techniques effective in identifying Android smartphones (OS version) on a network. From my research I found most Android network mappers can be only run from Android ...
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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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How effective is changing the MAC address?
Since every vendor has a MAC address range, and Apple has network card models that only they use (Airport), I suppose that it is very easy to identify a network package as coming from an Apple device, ...
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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 ...
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How to find the OS of the target machine
I am new to this field. Currently I am using Linux OS and
my question is how can I find the OS of another machine to
which I do not have a direct access.
I am interested in any possibilities which ...
