• How to use Nmap for vulnerability assessment

    Using the “Nmap Scripting Engine”   I don’t think I need to explain what is Nmap: probably the most famous and used portscanner in the known universe. Nmap has a lot of feature, and one of them is a built-in… read more »
  • CVE-2017–0199: the MS Office 0-day is already used to spread malware

    However, Microsoft has pached the vulnerability, so…update! On unpatched systems, the vulnerability is triggered by opening a document that opens a download warning, followed by a download from a malicious server that sends a dangerous document: The document is a… read more »
  • Your IoT device has a weak password? BrickedBot could destroy it!

    The attack might be trying to kill devices before they can join a botnet The security firm Radware has isolated, on their honeypots, two variants of a new bot attack targeting Internet of Things devices. Named BrickerBot, the bot gains access… read more »
  • Automated penetration tests with APT2

    Penetration tests on a very big network? APT2 can help you! A penetration test usually begins with a perimetral scan (es. using NMAP), after continues with a testing for services (and their default passwords).Finally performs testing of known exploits and if… read more »
  • PowerMemory: extract credentials from Windows memory

    Also in user-land Like Mimikittens, PowerMemory uses PowerShell to access Windows memory in user-land and extracts the credentials stored in ram: The method is totally new. It proves that it can be extremely easy to get credentials or any other… read more »
  • Smartphones using Broadcom Wi-Fi SOC can be hacked Over-the-Air

    Security patch available only for Nexus & iOS A stack buffer overflow issue that affects all devices using Broadcom’s Wi-Fi stack was discovered by Google’s Project Zero researcher Gal Beniamini. The flaw affects Apple devices and also all android devices using… read more »
  • How to open very large text files on Windows

    Some graphical tools and two command line tips I’ve had to search the occurrency of a string within some very large text files, as result of a “file carving” made with Autopsy. Usually on Windows I use Notepad ++, that provides… read more »
  • OSINT Tools for Fact Checking

    My own list Another (brief) list of OSINT sources, this time focused on fact checking services. Fact-Check Investigate (an issue) in order to verify the facts. ‘I didn’t fact-check the assertions in the editorial’ ‘reporters can’t be expected to fact-check every quotation’… read more »