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  • Aug 17, 2020

    SANS Institute: how to turn a data breach into an educational opportunity

    The SANS Institute is one of the largest organizations that offer information security training and security certification to users worldwide. In a notification posted recently on their site, the organization states that a phishing attack that target an employee allowed… read more »
  • Aug 14, 2020

    Goodbye Master Bream. Thank you for everything you did

    “I devoted my life to music for a reason, and the reason wasn’t because I wanted to get on or make money, but to try to fulfil myself and also to give people pleasure” - Julian Bream (15 July 1933… read more »
  • Aug 14, 2020

    Re­VoL­TE: decrypting LTE calls to eavesdrop on conversations

    A team of academics from the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, has discovered that not all mobile operators follow the 4G standard to the letter of the law: they supports encrypted voice calls, but many calls are encrypted with the… read more »
  • Aug 10, 2020

    Achilles: over 400 vulnerabilities found on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip

    Check Point Research reported finding more than 400 bugs in the code used to control the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) cores in Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip families.… read more »
  • Jul 30, 2020

    Cybersecurity Roundup #15

    "Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch… read more »
  • Jul 29, 2020

    Why Huawei USB stick setup on linux adds a strange "Huawei Autorun" script in system start?

    "Huawei installed malware on my Linux laptop"? Let's calm down and try to collect more information!… read more »
  • Jul 28, 2020

    Weekly Tech Roundup #14

    "All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value" - Carl Sagan… read more »
  • Jul 27, 2020

    "Change Of Season": four songs, entirely written by human

    My new EP on Spotify, and some info about my creative process… read more »
  • Jul 24, 2020

    How secure and privacy-oriented is iOS?

    How secure and privacy-oriented is iOS? It’s a question that I’m often asked, from friends, colleagues and clients.… read more »
  • Jul 23, 2020

    Weekly Privacy Roundup #14

    "My inbox is the enemy" - Glenn Greenwald… read more »
  • Jul 22, 2020

    Vulnerable webapps and VMs for penetration testing practice: my own list

    A list that may be useful to readers that are studying for a certification exam or, more simply, to those who just want to have fun!… read more »
  • Jul 21, 2020

    Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #14

    "I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed." - Bruce Scheneier… read more »
  • Jul 20, 2020

    Animal Kingdom: new experiments of computer aided composition

    In the past weeks, I've already written about some funny experiments that i made first with music and machine learning, then with music composed using pseudo-random algorithms. In both cases, results are some interesting, but strange, melodies that I finished… read more »
  • Jul 17, 2020

    Sara Morrison: how SDKs, hidden trackers in your phone, work

    In a good article on Recode, Sara Morrison (@SaraMorrison) made a useful overview on trackers hidden in smartphone SDKs.… read more »
  • Jul 16, 2020

    Weekly Tech Roundup #13

    "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems." - Linus Torvalds… read more »
  • Jul 15, 2020

    SIGRed: a 17-year-old wormable vulnerability in Windows DNS server

    Last Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday addressed a 17-year-old vulnerability impacting Microsoft Windows DNS Server, tracked as CVE-2020-1350 and dubbed "SigRed" by ChekPoint's researchers.… read more »
  • Jul 13, 2020

    Weekly Privacy Roundup #13

    "Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is a right - one that we need to defend in the digital realm as much as in the physical realm." - Chelsea Manning"Privacy is not a luxury in America: it is… read more »
  • Jul 10, 2020

    Using .lnk files as zero-touch downloaders

    In a good post on SANS ISC InfoSec Forum, Jan Kopriva (@jk0pr) shows how windows explorer shell links could be used by an attacker in order to download malicious payloads.… read more »
  • Jul 9, 2020

    Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #13

    “Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in… read more »
  • Jul 8, 2020

    pySchö: algorithmic music composition

    In a previous post, I have talked about a python script used to generate random music starting from a single number (a "seed"). So, today I'd like to share with you pyScho.… read more »
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Andrea Fortuna

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