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  • Sep 26, 2017

    Extract all magnet links from an html page with Python

    A simple and useful snippet Recently i’ve developed a simple webscraper that extract magnet links from a specific page and starts the download with bittorrent. The core of the script is the code snippet below, that uses pyquery in order to… read more »
  • Sep 22, 2017

    CCleaner incident: what we need to know?

    Looking for a good alternative to CCleaner? Take a look to BleachBit! A good analysis by Cisco Talos Version 5.33 of the CCleaner downloaded between August 15 and September 12 was modified to include the Floxif malware: We would like to… read more »
  • Sep 21, 2017

    Optionsbleed: a vulnerability? Nope, a ghost!

    A bug really difficult to reproduce! Hanno Böck, a freelance journalist, has disclosed a bug in Apache Web Server causes servers to leak pieces of arbitrary memory in a way that could expose passwords or other secrets, like the most… read more »
  • Sep 20, 2017

    Create a Github Gist with a simple Python script

    How to share code snippets from command line Gist.github.com is a great service provided by GitHub, useful to share code snippets. You can share single files, parts of files, or full applications: every gist is a Git repository, which means that… read more »
  • Sep 18, 2017

    IlluminateJs: a good Javascript Deobfuscator

    Useful during analysis of malicious sites Yesterday in my twitter stream i’ve seen this tweet by Florian Roth: [embed]https://twitter.com/cyb3rops/status/902934898700320770[/embed] During the analysis of a malicious site, one of the first step is the deobfuscation of the suspicious javascript. There are… read more »
  • Sep 15, 2017

    What is the blockchain, and how will radically transform the economy?

    Do you know what is the blockchain? You should! How an independent, transparent, and permanent database coexisting in multiple locations and shared by a community will changing money and business? In this lucid and simple talk, Bettina Warburg describes how… read more »
  • Sep 13, 2017

    How to verify that Wannacry patch is correctly installed

    In a big company, with a lot of windows systems, checking the correct patching for Wannacry could be a little tricky. Security update MS17–010 addresses several vulnerabilities in Windows SMB v1 exploited by the WannaCrypt ransomware. However, the KB that contains… read more »
  • Sep 11, 2017

    DolphinAttack: inaudible voice commands allows attackers to control Siri, Alexa and other digital assistants

    A research about supersonic voice command hacking Chinese researchers have discovered a vulnerability in voice assistants from Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, and Huawei. Using a technique called “DolphinAttack”, a team from Zhejiang University translated typical vocal commands into ultrasonic frequencies… read more »
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Andrea Fortuna

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Cybersecurity expert, software developer, experienced digital forensic analyst, musician