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  • Jan 17, 2018

    LaZagne, a credentials recovery tool

    LaZagne is a tool developed by Alessandro Zanni useful to retrieve passwords stored on a local computer by most commonly-used software. The tool displays passwords for (currently) 22 Windows and 12 Linux programs. Each software stores its passwords using different… read more »
  • Jan 15, 2018

    PE-sieve, a command line tool for investigating inline hooks

    PE-sieve is a small tool for investigating inline hooks and other in-memory code patches, developed by hasherezade. The tool, based on libpeconv (also developed by hasherezade), scans a given process and searching for the modules containing in-memory code modifications. When… read more »
  • Jan 12, 2018

    PinMe: tracking a smartphone with localization services turned off

    Arsalan Mosenia, Xiaoliang Dai, Prateek Mittal and Niraj Jha, in paper recently published, describe a new user-location mechanism that exploits non-sensory/sensory data stored on the smartphone to estimate the user's location when all location services are turned off. The technique,… read more »
  • Jan 10, 2018

    Process Doppelgänging: a more stealth alternative of the process hollowing technique?

    Recently at Black Hat Europe conference, Tal Liberman and Eugene Kogan (enSilo lab) presented a a new code injection technique called "Process Doppelgänging", that works on all Windows versions and seems to be able to bypass most of today's major… read more »
  • Jan 8, 2018

    Meltdown: another PoC in the wild

    Pavel Boldin published a new PoC exploit of Meltdown vulnerability working on Linux, written in C. "Speculative optimizations execute code in a non-secure manner leaving data traces in microarchitecture such as cache." Can only dump linux_proc_banner at the moment, since… read more »
  • Jan 6, 2018

    In-Spectre-Meltdown: a PoC for Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

    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 »
  • Jan 5, 2018

    Meltdown and Spectre: what we know about the vulnerabilities in CPUs?

    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 »
  • Jan 3, 2018

    How keyloggers works: a simple example of keyboard hooking using Python

    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 »
  • Dec 31, 2017

    My Year of Running – 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 »
  • Dec 29, 2017

    Forensic logical acquisition of Android devices using adb backup

    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 »
  • Dec 27, 2017

    How to cross-compile a Python script into a Windows executable on Linux

    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 »
  • Dec 22, 2017

    Forensic disk images of a Windows system: my own workflow

    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 »
  • Dec 20, 2017

    Sysinternals ProcDump porting for Linux

    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 »
  • Dec 18, 2017

    How to hack a turned-off computer, using Intel Management Engine

    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 »
  • Dec 15, 2017

    Investigate suspicious Windows processes using Sysinternals Sysmon

    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 »
  • Dec 13, 2017

    How to fix the WXR version error when importing a very old Wordpress export file

    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 »
  • Dec 11, 2017

    Metasploit Console: my own cheatsheet

    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 »
  • Dec 8, 2017

    What is Reflective DLL Injection and how can be detected?

    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 »
  • Dec 6, 2017

    Just some thoughts about credential stuffing attacks: how to check and prevent them

    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 »
  • Dec 4, 2017

    How to learn programming: the traditional way and the quick way

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