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Questions tagged [fingerprinting]

Gaining information about current version of an application or operating system in order to find a vulnerability.

Fingerprinting is a term that describes the process of identifying a system based upon the services it runs and the behaviour it exhibits.

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Is exposing the default plesk page dangerous?

Is exposing the default plesk page on an IP dangerous? I can imagine it is somehow usable for fingerprinting a version maybe. But is it dangerous anyhow?
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Is there a way to guess a shared server's control panel's version?

I am performing research on the security of control panel software for shared hosting providers, and I am interested to know if there is a way to identify the version of the control panel software that the server is using, for instance, cPanel,…
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Does multi-factor authentication make tracking/fingerprinting easier?

Is multi-factor authentication a privacy risk? Does it make tracking/fingerprinting easier? It was seem so because whoever is accepting the OTP could track and record every OTP request and metadata like time, location, etc., information it may not…
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Antivirus and malware fingerprints

I´m a student in IT security and I would like to know how the malware fingerprints work in common AntiVirus. I understand that when a malware is detected it's because the binary fingerprint is known by the AntiVirus database. But if I split the…
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Number of biometric samples required to form an exhaustive set of fingerprint hashes?

Number of biometric samples required to form an exhaustive set of fingerprint hashes? Slight variations in the sample produce different hash values of the sample data. The answer linked below indicates that enough different samples might produce an…
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Defend against HTTP fingerprinting

I'm looking for ways to defend against common fingerprinting techniques used by hackers to identify what kind of setup my website is running on. I understand this is a complicated topic, and every setup probably has it's own solutions. I'm new to…
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