An Overview of Remote Operating System Fingerprinting

Operating System (OS) fingerprinting is the science of determining the operating system of a remote computer on the Internet. This may be accomplished passively by sniffing network packets traveling between hosts, actively by sending carefully crafted packets to the target machine and analyzing the...
By
Chris Trowbridge
October 31, 2003

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