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Jun 5, 2021
NTFS filesystem is a gold mine for forensic analysis on Microsoft Windows systems. There are a lot of tools useful for extract a timeline of the activities on the filesystem, or for search anomalies that identify time stomping events. Recently… read more »
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May 29, 2021
I've always been fascinated by the works of Gérard Grisey, a french composer pioneer of the Spectralist movement. According to Wikipedia [1], spectral music is …an acoustic musical practice where compositional decisions are often informed by sonographic representations and mathematical analysis of sound spectra, or by mathematically generated… read more »
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May 22, 2021
iLEAPP is a good iOS forensic tool developed by Alexis Brignoni. It’s composed by a set of python script previously developed by Alexis, collected in a single, useful, tool. iLEAPP [1] is developed in order to help forensic analyst during… read more »
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May 15, 2021
On iOS devices, due the well-known os restrictions, logical acquisition is the most common type of data extraction during digital forensic investigations. There are a lot of commercial forensic tools able to perform this step, but this type of acquisition… read more »
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May 1, 2021
I recently happened to read a research, presented during the ACM WINTECH 2020 conference, related to IMSI Catchers and their exploitation for tracking users of mobile devices. Mobile telephony standards have always used and recorded user's locations: when a user… read more »
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Apr 24, 2021
I’m still finishing up to write down all musical ideas that came in my mind during the covid-19 lockdown, and this new collection of songs is another part of them. 11 songs, more than 1 hours of relaxing (i hope!)… read more »
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Apr 18, 2021
During a forensic analysis, but also during other simple tasks (like helping a friend to recover deleted files), is useful to have a trusted tool to perform file-carving and data recovery. The tool that I prefer to perform this kind… read more »
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Apr 10, 2021
Most of forensic acquisition activities on an Android device can be accomplished using the ADB (Android Debug Bridge) tool. However, a lot of commands are required: luckily, the forensic expert Mattia Epifani created a bash script that automatize a lot… read more »
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Apr 2, 2021
An academic research, conducted by Professor Douglas J. Leith from Trinity College at the University of Dublin, analyzed traffic originating from iOS and Android devices heading to Apple and Google servers at various stages of a phone’s operation, such as… read more »
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Mar 28, 2021
On March 2020, the Italian artist Valerio Berruti launched the initiative “L’abbraccio più forte” ("The strongest embrace"), with which he undertook to donate one of his drawings to anyone who had made a donation of at least 300 euros to… read more »
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Mar 27, 2021
An interesting article and video lesson by security reserarcher Didier Stevens. Cobalt Strike and Metasploit are the offensive security tools most commonly used to host malware command-and-control (C2) servers: both tool allows generation of shellcode for http(s) shells so, during… read more »
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Mar 21, 2021
Strange sounds, delays, reverbs, noises: 13 instrumental, synthetic, ethereal songs.
Available today on all major music streaming services, such as Apple Music and Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/45ynm44gnBRb6wMdNS9w8V
I hope you enjoy it!
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Mar 13, 2021
Some months ago, my loved Thinkpad x1 carbon started to have some issues on battery and motherboard. It was an 8 years laptop, so i decided to directly buy a new device for my "personal purposes" (all devices for work… read more »
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Mar 6, 2021
Just some simple tips that I found very useful. Bash supports read/write operations on a pseudo-device file /dev/tcp/[host]/[port] [1]. Writing to this special file makes bash open a tcp connection to host:port, and this feature may be used for some useful… read more »
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Feb 27, 2021
There is no 100% anonymity on the internet. Your Digital Footprint is everywhere on the web: it is in all the actions you do on keyboard and mouse, on every tap and swipe on our mobile phone. All the tools… read more »
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Feb 20, 2021
I often wake up in the morning with a melody in my head.It shouldn't be anything unusual, but in my case they are mostly original songs, which I transcribe and (when listenable) make available online. Over the years I have… read more »
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Feb 13, 2021
Currently, there are a lot of good forensics commercial tools, can be used to perform a whole dfir workflow. However, several analyst anche companies cannot afford the purchase of those (awesome) tools. For this reason, all my dfir tutorial are… read more »
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Feb 6, 2021
During forensic anaysis, Windows registry data can be useful to discover malicious activity and to determine if and what data may have been stolen from a network. Many different types of data are present in the registry that can provide… read more »
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Jan 26, 2021
The malware analyst Karsten Hahn recently published a very interesting video about the analysis of a sample of the well-known malware Ursnif. Ursnif is a banking trojan and variant of the Gozi malware observed being spread through various automated exploit… read more »
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Jan 19, 2021
I mean no offense to real piano players but, despite I am a guitarist, I always loved the sound of piano. And ever since I started composing my music, most of my songs are written with the voice of a… read more »