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

What are whois queries?

Whois queries are used to determine the IP address ranges associated with clients. A whois query can be run on most UNIX environments. In a Windows environment, the tools such

Friendster accounts hacking menace

Someone asked us recently how to hack a Friendster account. Of course, we refused point blank as hacking is not only illegal, it is utterly loathsome. It is none of