Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers
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Tag Archives: fingerprinting
WAF – How to tell what automated tool is causing alerts
When a WAF is throwing alerts your way is there a tool or way to fingerprint the the script or automated tool the potential attacker is using against the site?
What techniques can I use to narrow down and figure out what too… Continue reading WAF – How to tell what automated tool is causing alerts
Extracting as much information from a browser request as possible?
I am currently working on project that involves identifying spammers who are creating fake accounts on my site. I am interested to know what type of information I would be able to extract.
First of all, there is browser fing… Continue reading Extracting as much information from a browser request as possible?
Firefox kills the Battery Status ‘super cookie’
What is the Battery Status API good for? Besides tracking you online that is. Continue reading Firefox kills the Battery Status ‘super cookie’
Unique(ish) OS / hardware fingerprinting
In the manners of Browser fingerprinting, is it possible to obtain a somewhat unique fingerprint for the device OS and hardware (a 1 out 1000 entropy score would be good enough for my needs)
Edit:
For more context, I am trying to differen… Continue reading Unique(ish) OS / hardware fingerprinting
What unique fingerprinting information can an iOS 10 app collect?
As a follow-on to these questions:
What unique fingerprinting information can an iOS7 app collect?
What unique device fingerprinting information can an iOS8 app collect?
What unique device fingerprinting information can an iOS9 app coll… Continue reading What unique fingerprinting information can an iOS 10 app collect?
How to fingerprint a server with Netcat?
I am trying to follow the OWASP test guide on a Kali Linux machine. As the first step in “Information Gathering” I am trying to fingerprint the server. The guide instructs me to use NetCat:
$ nc www.xxx.yy 80
But after sev… Continue reading How to fingerprint a server with Netcat?
Browser-based fingerprinting: implications and mitigations
This post covers the information disclosure bugs in Internet Explorer and Edge that we sometimes refer to as ‘fingerprinting’. We review past flaws as well as a currently unpatched one used in the wild before exploring some long term mitigations.Catego… Continue reading Browser-based fingerprinting: implications and mitigations
Malvertising slowing down, but not out
The last high profile malvertising activity we had seen was on June 7th with a drive-by download incident on Yahoo that used Neutrino EK instead of Angler EK. This was rather unusual and was later confirmed as not just an anomaly, by the switch of expl… Continue reading Malvertising slowing down, but not out
Neutrino EK: fingerprinting in a Flash
Since the disappearance of Angler EK, exploit kit activity is at one of its lowest it has been in a long time. The focus is therefore on Neutrino EK, which has somewhat picked up the pieces, although at a much lower rate. In this post we look at a chan… Continue reading Neutrino EK: fingerprinting in a Flash