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  • Jun 5, 2021

    dfir_ntfs: a forensic parser for NTFS filesystems

    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 »
  • May 29, 2021

    “Soundscapes”, my spectral music experimentation

    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 »
  • May 22, 2021

    iLEAPP: an iOS logs, events, and plists parser

    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 »
  • May 15, 2021

    iOS Forensics: how to perform a logical acquisition with libimobiledevice

    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 »
  • May 1, 2021

    How smartphones reacts to IMSI catching attacks?

    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 »
  • Apr 24, 2021

    “Unconventional Beauty”: 11 relaxing songs

    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 »
  • Apr 18, 2021

    How to sort and organize files recovered by PhotoRec

    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 »
  • Apr 10, 2021

    Android Triage: a really useful forensic tool by Mattia Epifani

    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 »
  • Apr 2, 2021

    How many data are shared by iOS and Android telemetry?

    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 »
  • Mar 28, 2021

    “L’abbraccio più forte”, by Valerio Berruti

    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 »
  • Mar 27, 2021

    Didier Stevens: finding Metasploit & Cobalt Strike URLs

    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 »
  • Mar 21, 2021

    “Inertial Damper”, my new electronic album, is out!

    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! … read more »
  • Mar 13, 2021

    Coding on iPad Pro: my own setup

    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 »
  • Mar 6, 2021

    Some useful tips about /dev/tcp

    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 »
  • Feb 27, 2021

    How to reduce your Digital Footprint, part 1: Web Browsers and Extensions

    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 »
  • Feb 20, 2021

    ‘Deja Vu’, the mistery song

    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 »
  • Feb 13, 2021

    How to perform a digital forensic analysis using only free tools

    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 »
  • Feb 6, 2021

    Windows registry Transaction Logs in forensic analysis

    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 »
  • Jan 26, 2021

    Karsten Hahn: fileless Ursnif/Gozy static analysis and unpacking

    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 »
  • Jan 19, 2021

    “My piano didn't fit in the elevator!”, a piano album

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