Biometric Keylogger Can Grab Fingerprints
Well this is quite scary as biometrics are touted as the ultimate in security and two factor authentication with biometrics is about as ‘heavy’ as most places get. The fact that the biometric data can...
View Articlebrowserrecon – Passive Browser Fingerprinting
Most of todays tools for fingerprinting are focusing on server-side services. Well-known and widely-accepted implementations of such utilities are available for http web services, smtp mail server,...
View ArticleXprobe2 – Active OS Fingerprinting Tool
Sometimes I wonder to myself have I mentioned a certain tool on the site, usually one of my favourites…often I search the site to find I have never posted about it. It just goes to show how we often...
View Articlethc-Amap – Application Protocol Detection & Fingerprinting
thc-Amap (Application MAPper) is another excellent tool more towards banner grabbing and protocol detection than OS-fingerprinting. But from the services running on a machine you can get a good idea...
View Articlep0f – Advanced Passive OS Fingerprinting Tool
Ah can’t believe I haven’t posted about this one before, one of my favourite tools! It was a big breakthrough to have a passive OS-fingerprinting tool after relying on Nmap and Xprobe2 for the longest...
View ArticleWAFP – Web Application Finger Printing Tool
How it works? WAFP fetches the files given by the Finger Prints from a webserver and checks if the checksums of those files are matching to the given checksums from the Finger Prints. This way it is...
View ArticleMicrosoft SQL Server Fingerprint Tool – BETA4
This is a tool that performs version fingerprinting on Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, using well known techniques based on several public tools that identifies the SQL Version. The strength...
View ArticleNmap v5.20 Released – Open Source Network Exploration & Auditing Tool
Nmap is of course of the most famous port scanners and hacking tools of all time, the last stable release was back in July 2009. For those that may not know, Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free open...
View ArticleNmap 6 Released For Download – Free Network Discovery & Security Auditing Tool
It’s been a while since the last major release of Nmap, the last time we reported on it was when Nmap v5.20 was Released (February 2010). The latest major version has just been released, version 6 –...
View ArticleClear Your Cookies? You Can’t Escape Canvas Fingerprinting
So tracking is getting even trickier, it seems canvas fingerprinting would work in any browser that supports HTML5 and is pretty hard to stop as a user, as it’s a basic feature (a website instructing...
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