Andrea Fortuna
Just some random thoughts about the Meaning of Life, The Universe, and Everything

On March 2020, the Italian artist Valerio Berruti launched the initiative “L’abbraccio più forte” (“The strongest embrace“), with which he undertook to donate one of his drawings to anyone who had made a donation of at least 300 euros to the “Fondazione Nuovo Ospedale Alba-Bra Onlus “, to deal with the COVID-19 emergency.

An interesting article and video lesson by security reserarcher Didier Stevens.

Strange sounds, delays, reverbs, noises: 13 instrumental, synthetic, ethereal songs.

Some months ago, my loved Thinkpad x1 carbon started to have some issues on battery and motherboard. It was an 8 years laptop, so i decided to directly buy a new device for my “personal purposes” (all devices for work activities are provided by my employer).

Just some simple tips that I found very useful.

There is no 100% anonymity on the internet.

Your Digital Footprint is everywhere on the web: it is in all the actions you do on keyboard and mouse, on every tap and swipe on our mobile phone.

I often wake up in the morning with a melody in my head.
It shouldn’t be anything unusual, but in my case they are mostly original songs, which I transcribe and (when listenable) make available online.

Currently, there are a lot of good forensics commercial tools, can be used to perform a whole dfir workflow. However, several analyst anche companies cannot afford the purchase of those (awesome) tools.

During forensic anaysis, Windows registry data can be useful to discover malicious activity and to determine if and what data may have been stolen from a network.

The malware analyst Karsten Hahn recently published a very interesting video about the analysis of a sample of the well-known malware Ursnif.