Security ~ Hide Underlying Tech Information
Security by Obscurity, Security Through Obscurity (STO), Hardening by Hiding, Hide Tech for Security
Discover Site Technology
There are tools that can be used to discover the technologies a website is using, such as:
- Wappalyzer
- BuiltWith Technology Lookup
- WhatRuns is Chrome extension
Defunct websites and services:
- PageXray.com was a Chrome extension to analyze the technologies used on a website, but it appears that it is no longer available as of 2022.
- SEOMON.com is also no longer available in 2022
Sources:
How do you determine what technology a website is built on?
Ways to hide site technology
Web server hardening by hiding site technology
Hiding nginx headers: nginx/site.nginxconf at master · danielmiessler/nginx
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_hide_header Remove PHP X-Powered-By & Nginx Server Details from HTTP Response Header | Andreas Pollak
Remove info about Google PageSpeed Module
PageSpeed Configuration - PageSpeed Module — Google Developers
javascript - Hide server-side technology information from the browser - Stack Overflow
How to hide Laravel from Wappalyzer plugin | Laravel-Tricks.com
Hiding WordPress
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