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What are the various methods of passive OS fingerprinting?

In passive OS fingerprinting, an attacker installs a sniffer on any third party such as a router on which the victim communicates frequently. Now he studies the sniffer’s log and

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Dyne’s Hackers List v1.10

0x01 – Definitions: Hacker vs Cracker The New Hacker’s Dictionary defines Hacker as: “A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as

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Zlob hacker writes love letter to Microsoft

Here’s a new way to get Microsoft to pay attention to you: slip a brief message into the malicious Trojan horse program you just wrote. That’s what an unnamed Russian

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