Chapter 9. SECURITY-BASED ANALYSIS
In this chapter we'll dive into several security-related network scenarios and work through them with Wireshark. With looming threats of hackers, identity thieves, and corporate data theft, you can't afford not to be able to analyze the security of your network at the packet level.
OS Fingerprinting
- osfingerprinting .pcap
Operating system (OS) fingerprinting is a technique used by hackers to identify a remote computer's operating system in order to gain information that could be useful for breaking into it. OS fingerprinting works by using a remote machine to send various commands to a target computer. When the remote machine receives the responses to these commands, it can interpret those responses to make an educated ...
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