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OSfuscate: Change your Windows OS TCP/IP Fingerprint to confuse P0f, NetworkMiner, Ettercap, Nmap and other OS detection tools

2008-10-03 00:15:15 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...fingerprint of a Windows box to confuse tools like Nmap, P0f, Ettercap and NetworkMiner. I knew there were registry setting you could change in Windows XP/Vista that would let you reconfigure how the TCP/IP stack works, thus changing how the above tools would detect the OS. I wasn't sure what all registry changes to make, but luckily I found...
 
Tags: fingerprint, tools, confuse tools, fingerprint detection, registry, windows box, nmap, change, tcpip stack
 
 
 
 
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OSfuscate: Change your Windows OS TCP/IP Fingerprint to confuse P0f, NetworkMiner, Ettercap, Nmap and other OS detection tools

2008-10-03 00:15:15 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...fingerprint of a Windows box to confuse tools like Nmap, P0f, Ettercap and NetworkMiner. I knew there were registry setting you could change in Windows XP/Vista that would let you reconfigure how the TCP/IP stack works, thus changing how the above tools would detect the OS. I wasn't sure what all registry changes to make, but luckily I found...
 
Tags: fingerprint, tools, confuse tools, fingerprint detection, registry, windows box, nmap, change, tcpip stack
 
 
 
 
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OSfuscate: Change your Windows OS TCP/IP Fingerprint to confuse P0f, NetworkMiner, Ettercap, Nmap and other OS detection tools

2008-10-03 00:15:15 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...fingerprint of a Windows box to confuse tools like Nmap, P0f, Ettercap and NetworkMiner. I knew there were registry setting you could change in Windows XP/Vista that would let you reconfigure how the TCP/IP stack works, thus changing how the above tools would detect the OS. I wasn't sure what all registry changes to make, but luckily I found...
 
Tags: fingerprint, tools, confuse tools, fingerprint detection, registry, windows box, nmap, change, tcpip stack
 
 
 
 
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German Minister's Fingerprint Published

2008-04-01 14:37:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fingerprint is not a secret, and 2) a great political hack. Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's interior minister, is a strong supporter of collecting biometric data on everyone as an antiterrorist measure. Because, um, because it sounds like a good idea Here's the story directly from the Chaos Computer Club (in German), and its Engligh-language...
 
Tags: chaos computer club, fingerprint, strong supporter, german, interior minister, antiterrorist measure, wolfgang schauble, political hack, story directly
 
 
 
 
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Biometrics

2009-01-08 12:53:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Fingerprints have been used to identify people at crime scenes for more than 100 years What is new about biometrics is that computers are now doing the recognizing: thumbprints, retinal scans, voiceprints, and typing patterns. There's a lot of technology involved here, in trying to both limit the number of false positives (someone else being...
 
Tags: biometric systems, biometric, biometric database, hard biometric, biometrics, fingerprint reader, fingerprint, biometric identification system, vastly improve security
 
 
 
 
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More Details on McAfee's Artemis

2008-09-19 11:25:41 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...fingerprint of the file up to the Artemis servers for further analysis. I had assumed that this fingerprint was a hash of some kind, but that was a simplistic assumption. The fingerprint includes characteristics of the file, including the ones that the scanner used to determine that the file was suspicious: Is it packed? Using certain packers...
 
Tags: artemis, analysis, conventional behavioral analysis, artemis servers, artemis kicks, extensive analysis, behavioral analysis, artemis technology, fingerprint
 
 
 
 
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ID Cards for Port Workers

2008-10-21 13:28:00 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fingerprint. Port and delivery workers, cargo handlers, and other employees who must venture into sensitive or secure areas will be required to submit to a fingerprint scan before entering those locations. The scanning machine will automatically perform a match analysis with the fingerprint embedded in the smart chip This is a great...
 
Tags: port, port workers, fingerprint, fingerprint scan, card, smart chip, scannable card serves, cards, features aimed
 
 
 
 
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America's Next Top Hash Function Begins

2008-11-20 02:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...fingerprint functions: They take an arbitrary long data stream and return a fixed length, and effectively unique, string. The security comes from the fact that while it's easy to generate the fingerprint from a file, it's infeasible to go the other way and generate a file given a fingerprint Originally created to make digital signatures more...
 
Tags: hash function, sha, sha-3, algorithms, cool algorithms, sha family, nist held, unlike encryption algorithms, nist
 
 
 
 
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Impersonation

2009-01-09 14:04:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fingerprint readers with a piece of tape, or automatic face scanners with -- and I'm not making this up -- a photograph of a face held in front of their own. Even the most bored policeman wouldn't fall for any of those tricks This is why identity theft is such a big problem today. So much authentication happens online, with only a small...
 
Tags: authentication, authentication fails, authentication systems, impersonation, credit card company, credit card, authentication system, systems, security