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Jan 6, 2018
In-Spectre-Meltdown is a PoC developed by Viral Maniar using Python and Powershell to check speculative execution side-channel attacks that affect many modern processors and operating systems designs that allows unprivileged processes to steal secrets from privileged processes. This tool is based on… read more »
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Jan 5, 2018
In the last hours, the vulnerabilities of the CPU have had a great prominence even in the non-specialized press.So, I think that would be useful trying to summarize the situation in a simple way. Background https://xkcd.com/1938/ Google's Project Zero releases… read more »
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Jan 3, 2018
Keyloggers are often used by malicious softwares to steal sensitive data and login credentials. During a malware analysis process is useful to know how a keylogger works. A keylogger can be implemented simply setting a hook on the keydown event… read more »
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Dec 31, 2017
My running year recap. Ok, 2018 is near to ends, now is time to make some statistics on my running activity. This year i have run for 5279 kilometers (3280 miles): every workout has been performed in the early morning,… read more »
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Dec 29, 2017
In digital forensics, the term logical extraction is typically used to refer to extractions that do not recover deleted data, or do not include a full bit-by-bit copy of the evidence, analogously to copying and pasting a folder in order… read more »
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Dec 27, 2017
Using Wine and Pyinstaller. Pyinstaller is a program that packages Python programs into stand-alone executables, under the most used OSs (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris and AIX). Initially Pyinstaller had a beta feature that allows the cross-compilation of… read more »
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Dec 22, 2017
Every forensic analyst, during his experience, perfects his own workflow for the acquisition of forensic images. Today I want to propose my own workflow for acquisition of physical disks on Microsoft Windows systems Required tools FTK Imager The Forensic Toolkit… read more »
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Dec 20, 2017
Microsoft has released, on its GitHub repository, an interesting Linux porting of ProcDump from Sysinternals suite. Like the Windows version, ProcDump allows developers to create core dumps of their application based on performance triggers. Furthermore, ProcDump is also useful for… read more »
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Dec 18, 2017
In this great speech on BlackHat Europe 2017, Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy by Positive Technology talks about the Intel Management Engine subsystem and how the recently discovered vulnerabilities can be used in order to compromise a system. Intel Management… read more »
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Dec 15, 2017
This article on Microsoft's Technet Blog is really interesting: Moti Bani explain how to investigate suspicious activity on servers using Sysmon Tool. What is Sysmon? Sysmon is a tool from Sysinternals that provides a comprehensive monitoring about activities in the… read more »
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Dec 13, 2017
Recently I needed to migrate the contents of a Wordpress 2.1.7 (really old!) on a new installation based on Wordpress 4.9.1. So i've exported all contents from old site using the standard export procedure, but during the import on the… read more »
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Dec 11, 2017
Metasploit Framework is a priceless open-source a tool for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine. Its main admin interface, the Metasploit console has many different command options to chose from. Here my own set (in alphabetical… read more »
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Dec 8, 2017
DLL (Dynamic-link library) are the Microsoft's implementation of the shared library concept and provide a mechanism for shared code and data, allowing a developer of shared code/data to upgrade functionality without requiring applications to be re-linked or re-compiled. DLLs may… read more »
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Dec 6, 2017
People reuse passwords all the time. How can i check and prevent credential stuffing attacks? Recently i've read this article by Brian Chappell on SC Media UK: Credential stuffing: People reuse passwords all the time. Shocker, I know. In BeyondTrust's… read more »
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Dec 4, 2017
Do you want to become a programmer? You need to know that you will have to face a long and difficult course, full of nights spent for debugging. Furthermore, you also need to face relationships with colleagues and clients, time… read more »
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Dec 1, 2017
RadioCarbon is an interesting tool developed by Florian Roth, focused on checking age and origin of a credential leak: Typically you get leaked credentials in form of list of email addresses or user names, cleartext passwords or password hashes, and… read more »
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Nov 29, 2017
UPDATE - Apple released the security patch for the bug: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315 The security fate discovered in MacOS High Sierra by Lemi Orhan Ergin is so serious that it is hard to believe it's real: you can become root without typing… read more »
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Nov 29, 2017
Please note: This article has been written almost a year ago: in this months a lot of updates and bugfixes has been rolled up on hook.io infrastructure.So it's quite possible that the code snippets related to hook.io do not work correctly.I… read more »
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Nov 28, 2017
Two vulnerabilities and an exploit POC impacting the Exim MTA have been publicly disclosed, identified as CVE-2017-16943 & CVE-2017-16944 The vulnerabilities could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via vectors involving BDAT commands.… read more »
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Nov 27, 2017
This post on arno0x0x's blog is awesome: an accurate analysis of some 'one-line commands' that can be used on a windows system in order to download a malicious payload and execute it. The examples are developed using several script languages,… read more »