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Jun 4, 2018
A typical NTFS filesystem contains hundreds of thousands of files. Each file has its own $MFT entry, and all $MFT entries are given a sequential address starting from zero, zero being the $MFT entry itself. Each MFT entry is addressed… read more »
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Jun 1, 2018
A very basic fingerstyle piece composed for my guitar students: a little study inspired by a melody by Ludovico Einaudi. Another brief and simple piece composed for my beginners students, this time based on rithmic structure of the well known… read more »
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May 30, 2018
Just imagine: your small web app, that allows user to download medium-large ZIP files, due a lucky reddit post, suddenly start to receive huge amount of traffic, and specifically a lot of downloads. The server is a small tier with… read more »
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May 28, 2018
When performing the analysis of a malicious Android program directly on the device, often can be required to dump some network traffic. This operation is pretty simple when the device is connected to a wifi network managed by the analyst,… read more »
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May 25, 2018
Every year, on May 25, i write a small post celebrating the Towel Day, but this time there is also a further event! Towel Day is an annual tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001): on that day, fans… read more »
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May 23, 2018
During a forensic analysis of a Windows system, it is often critical to understand when and how a particular process has been started. In order to identify this activity, we can extract from the target system a set of artifacts… read more »
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May 21, 2018
The malware detects virtualized environments by taking infected machines' CPU temperature. When a malware infect a system, one of the next steps that it performs is gain persistence, a mandatory key to ensure the resilience of (for example) the connection… read more »
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May 18, 2018
Alexandr Misko, 20 years old, a great percussive-fingerstyle technique and a successful career as a musician. Misko first caught the public's attention with an home recorded video, where he plays an original guitar piece with a "pentapping" base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1V3Pt7aFnI After,… read more »