5 Best Free and Open Source Passive OS Fingerprinting Tools

Posted by sde on Apr 28, 2024 12:34 PM EDT
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Passive OS Fingerprinting is a more stealth, but far slower process and usually less accurate than a targeted active fingerprinting session.

This type of software is often used for a variety of activities including, but not limited to, reconnaissance during penetration tests, routine network monitoring, detection of unauthorized network interconnects in corporate environments, providing signals for abuse-prevention tools, and miscellaneous forensics.

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