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Fingerprinting Windows 10 Technical Preview

Fingerprinting Windows 10 Technical Preview (PDF, 4.72MB)Published: 17 Sep, 2015
Created by
Jake Haaksma

Understanding the intricacies of a network is powerful information for security professionals and malicious attackers alike. Operating system (OS) fingerprinting is the process of determining the OS of a remote computer. This can be primarily accomplished by passively sniffing network packets between hosts or actively sending crafted packets to the ports of a target host in order to analyze its response. This paper attempts to fingerprint Windows 10 Technical Preview for the purpose of OS identification and to improve Nmap's OS detection database.