In response to increasingly militant attacks carried out by hackers, system administrators across the spectrum of IT have worked diligently in recent months to remove telltale signs that can classify their Web servers. However, this may fashion a false sense of confidence. . .
In response to increasingly militant attacks carried out by hackers, system administrators across the spectrum of IT have worked diligently in recent months to remove telltale signs that can classify their Web servers. However, this may fashion a false sense of confidence.

All it takes to pin the tail on a Web server is a trip to netcraft.com, where a specialized service identifies what type of Web server a target site is running by examining its nuances. From Apache, to IPlanet to IIS, servers are an open book - often by default.

While a clever system administrator may think their site is safe behind the shroud of secrecy, in reality, they are not.

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