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  • Nov 23, 2018

    "All of me", arranged for Ukulele

    A great exercise, in my opinion, is to start improvising on a well known melody or chord sequence, record the session and after transcribe the result on the score. Today i've applied this method on "All Of Me", a famous… read more »
  • Nov 19, 2018

    AutoTimeliner: automatically extract forensic timeline from memory dumps

    Often, during an incident response, may be necessary to analyze a lot of evidences, like disk and memory dumps. In my workflow, one of the first step is the creation of a timeline extracted from the volatile memory dump. For… read more »
  • Nov 16, 2018

    "Game of Thrones" main theme, my own ukulele arrangement

    Dracarys! This theme is the piece that plays during the title sequence of TV series "Game of Thrones", and was composed by Ramin Djawadi in 2011. Some interesting facts from Wikipedia: Ramin Djawadi began composing the music for the show… read more »
  • Nov 12, 2018

    Process Injection and Persistence using Application Shimming

    Microsoft provides Shims to developers mainly for backward compatibility, but malware can take advantage of shims to target an executable for both persistence and injection. As the Windows operating system evolves from version to version, changes to the implementation of… read more »
  • Nov 9, 2018

    12th Street Rag, for solo Ukulele

    “12th Street Rag” is a ragtime composed by Euday L. Bowman in 1914 for piano solo. A lot of cover of this song has been made, and a ukulele version has been used in the soundtrack of “Spongebob SquarePants”. I've… read more »
  • Nov 5, 2018

    Easily setup a Onion Service using Docker

    Some time ago I've written a post about Tor Onion Services (formerly known as hidden services), and how to host them on a spare android smartphone. Tor makes possible for users to hide their locations while offering various kinds of… read more »
  • Oct 31, 2018

    "This is Halloween", a simple version for solo ukulele

    "This Is Halloween" is a song from the 1993 film "The Nightmare Before Christmas", with music and lyrics written by Danny Elfman. My version is not a full transcription: it's a brief study based on the first bars of the… read more »
  • Oct 29, 2018

    Free Cybersecurity training: my own list of materials

    There is a lot a material about Cybersecurity free available online.Yet, all too often this contents are rarely of high quality. In this post i want to share my own shortlist of (in my view) good quality online training courses.… read more »
  • Oct 26, 2018

    Autumn Leaves: my ukulele arrangement

    Autumn Leaves is one of the most popular jazz standards.Originally it was a 1946 French song, "Les Feuilles mortes", composed by Joseph Kosma, with lyrics by Jacques Prevert, used for the movie film "Les Portes De La Nuit", a drama… read more »
  • Oct 22, 2018

    My GCFA Exam Sketchbook

    Some months ago i've got GCFA certification. During exam preparation i've collected a lot of notes, and after the exam i've gradually organized them in a index based on topics emerged during the exam, usual using my few freetime. Update… read more »
  • Oct 19, 2018

    "Over the Rainbow", for solo Ukulele: a simple rendition

    Whoever starts play ukulele, sooner or later will deal with this timeless classic. "Over the Rainbow" is a ballad written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg for the movie "The Wizard of Oz" and originally sung by actress Judy Garland.… read more »
  • Oct 15, 2018

    Some thoughts about Windows Userland Rootkits

    Rootkits are tools and techniques used to hide malicious modules from being noticed by system monitoring. Usually this kind of techniques involves kernel modifications, but (especially on windows systems) appear also in user-mode context, but still enabled to hiding their… read more »
  • Oct 12, 2018

    Edelweiss, by Richard Rodgers: a solo ukulele arrangement

    Do you know the TV series named "The Man in the High Castle", inspired by the visionary book by Philip K. Dick? The Man in the High Castle tells the story of an alternative timeline that emerged from an Axis… read more »
  • Oct 8, 2018

    Create and manage Windows Services using PowerShell and WMI

    During the creation of a long article about lateral movement using WMI, i've collected a good number of techniques to remotely manipulate Windows Services using WMI and Powershell. So, i decided to publish this sourcecode in form of PowerShell module,… read more »
  • Oct 5, 2018

    "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" main theme: my own ukulele rendition

    A very famous theme, often known as "Forbidden Colours", referring to its vocal version. "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence", also known in European edition as "Furyo" (Japanese for "prisoner of war"), is a 1983 film directed by Nagisa Oshima, starring David… read more »
  • Oct 1, 2018

    Accessing Volume Shadow Copies within a forensic image

    There are commercial tools that provides access to the Volume Shadow Copies within a forensic image, but how can access this source of data using only free tools? Here three method that i use, enjoy! Using a VMWare VM Using raw2vmdk create… read more »
  • Sep 28, 2018

    "Korobeiniki", from Game Boy version of Tetris: my ukulele arrangement

    Tetris is a famous puzzle game, originally developed by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov, who complete the first version while he was working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the Soviet Union in Moscow. After the… read more »
  • Sep 24, 2018

    Some thoughts about PE Injection

    Injecting code into other process memory is not only limited to shellcodes or DLLs. PE Injection technique enables to inject and run a complete executable module inside another process memory. What is PE injection? This technique is similar to reflective… read more »
  • Sep 21, 2018

    "River Flows in You" by Yiruma: my ukulele arrangement

    A lot of musicians better than me says that "River flow in you" is a song too simple, cheesy and definitely overplayed: and actually i agree!However, the simple harmony and the repetitive structure makes it perfect for an ukulele rendition… read more »
  • Sep 17, 2018

    Unix terminal, a simple cheatsheet

    Unix terminal is a powerful tool. I think that a lot of tasks (including my own forensics analysis workflows) can be accomplished more quickly on a "terminal only" environment. Here my brief cheatsheet with useful commands and tips. Reload shell… read more »
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Cybersecurity expert, software developer, experienced digital forensic analyst, musician