Welcome back, my greenhorn hackers! Earlier in this series, I showed a you a couple of different ways of fingerprinting webservers. Probably the easiest way, is to use netcat and connect to port 80 and pull the webserver banner. The banner is simply the application advertising what it is. Webserver administrators who are vigilant and savvy about security will often suppress or masquerade their banners. In other words, to throw off hackers, they might replace the banner of, say, Microsoft's IIS 6.0 with a banner saying it is Apache 2.4.0. In that way, hackers will spend their time and effort... more
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