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RSS nmapA Method of Identify OS Based on TCP/IP Fingerprint
White Paper Result from experimental appears that this method can identify the OS effectively, the action of is more secretly than other systems such as nmap and xprobe. This paper present a method that classify the fingerprint of protocol, use the frame to... [05 Dec 2007]
Ajax Fingerprinting for Web 2.0 Applications
White Paper There are several tools available for fingerprinting operating systems (nmap), Web servers (httprint), devices, etc. Fingerprinting is an age old concept and one that adds great value to assessment methodologies. [03 Jul 2007]
IT pros criminalised by CMA update?
News People who distribute networking vulnerability scanning tools such as nmap or Nessus could also be caught up in part (b), Clayton warned. Why should the only place to fetch Perl and nmap be from hacker sites in Eastern Europe, where the risk is... [22 May 2006]
Remote Device Identification Based on Bluetooth Fingerprinting Techniques
White Paper The idea is similar to IP fingerprinting techniques as used in tools like nmap where it is possible to determine a hosts operating system by specific behavior of the IP stack. This paper introduces a method to efficiently determine a Bluetooth... [08 Sep 2005]
BluePrinting: Remote Device Identification Based on Bluetooth Fingerprinting Techniques
White Paper The idea is similar to IP fingerprinting techniques as used in tools like nmap where it is possible to determine a hosts operating system by specific behavior of the IP stack. This paper introduces a method to efficiently determine a Bluetooth... [09 Aug 2005]
Feds go after security app inventor
News The creator of the famous hacking tool Nmap is being hounded by the FBI for copies of web server log data from his Web site Insecure.org. Fyodor, as he is known, is a well known figure in the security world, specifically for his work with Nmap. [29 Nov 2004]
IM photos compromise networks
News Last week, Hart warned that hackers could also use an nmap bot over IM to carry out denial-of-service attacks on companies. IM profile photos could allow hackers to penetrate otherwise secure computer networks, say experts [20 Oct 2004]
Hackers learn to attack networks with IM
News Combining the open-source tool nmap - a program that discovers devices on a network - with an IM bot, hackers can infiltrate, steal information and carry out denial-of-service attacks on networks, says the director of security for Whitehat UK... [12 Oct 2004]
System Fingerprinting
White Paper The king of the stack fingerprinting programs today is nmap. I had often wondered exactly how Fyodor, the author of nmap, went about designing his program. In his paper, Fyodor mentions TCP options, and how useful these options are for OS... [24 Feb 2004]
A Brief Programming Tutorial in C for Raw Sockets
White Paper This is useful, for example, to build raw socket scanners like nmap, to spoof or to perform operations that need to send out raw sockets. In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of using raw sockets in C, to insert any IP protocol based datagram... [24 Feb 2004]
Passive Mapping: An Offensive Use of IDS
White Paper NMAP is an active mapping piece of software. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are used to help defend domains by sitting on network choke points and recording all inbound and outbound packet traffic. [24 Feb 2004]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.03
Comment One can only imagine the tsunami-like waves of geek pride and joy that washed over a hacker calling himself Fyodr when midway through the film Trinity opens a terminal and launches his Nmap tool to scan a network for vulnerabilities. [23 May 2003]
