On iOS devices, due the well-known os restrictions, logical acquisition is the most common type of data extraction during digital forensic investigations. There are a lot of commercial forensic tools able to perform this step, but this type of acquisition can be also perfomed using an open source tool.
Continue…I recently happened to read a research, presented during the ACM WINTECH 2020 conference, related to IMSI Catchers and their exploitation for tracking users of mobile devices.
Continue…I’m still finishing up to write down all musical ideas that came in my mind during the covid-19 lockdown, and this new collection of songs is another part of them.
Continue…During a forensic analysis, but also during other simple tasks (like helping a friend to recover deleted files), is useful to have a trusted tool to perform file-carving and data recovery.
Continue…Most of forensic acquisition activities on an Android device can be accomplished using the ADB (Android Debug Bridge) tool.
However, a lot of commands are required: luckily, the forensic expert Mattia Epifani created a bash script that automatize a lot of operations needed to collect device informations.
An academic research, conducted by Professor Douglas J. Leith from Trinity College at the University of Dublin, analyzed traffic originating from iOS and Android devices heading to Apple and Google servers at various stages of a phone’s operation, such as data shared, founding that Google collects around 20 times more telemetry data from Android devices than Apple from iOS.
Continue…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.
Continue…An interesting article and video lesson by security reserarcher Didier Stevens.
Continue…Strange sounds, delays, reverbs, noises: 13 instrumental, synthetic, ethereal songs.
Continue…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).
Continue…