Category Archives: hardware & software

Maltego 3 creators interviewed

In a recent Exotic Liability podcast (not PG13) Chris and Ryan interview folks from Paterva, the makers of Maltego.  You should definitely try Maltego if you’ve never used it.  They have a free version and it runs on both Windows … Continue reading

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win32 memory capture & analysis cheat sheet

A high level overview to perform live memory captures and analysis: capture memory via moonsol’s win32dd parse memory snapshot with mandiant’s memoryze analyze results via audit viewer or analyze using the volatility framework — neatly packaged in SAN’S Sift Workstation

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Ubuntu can bypass iPhone pin to read data?

According to this zdnet article, when plugging your iPod into an Ubuntu machine the device is mounted without ever being prompted for a PIN code.  This is working on non jail broken iPhones.  I’m surprised the article only names Ubuntu … Continue reading

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DNS Performance & Security…

I’ve gotten tired of Road Runner’s DNS redirection/hijacking service which I opt out of yet it keeps coming back.  I decided to do some DNS benchmarking, comparing my assigned ISP name servers against publicly provided DNS such as Google.   The … Continue reading

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Google beta’s SSL for web searches

According to this H article, Google is beginning to beta a new feature of providing SSL for their standard web search service. As one commenter noted, Google is still collecting the same information from your searches but this will limit … Continue reading

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Google & Privacy

Bruce Schneier recently posted an article about the erosion of privacy.  Specifically how the social networking sites are accelerating this “privacy decay.”  Along with attacked social networking sites he through in Google.  I just came across an interesting Forbes article … Continue reading

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Determining the optical cluster size for your volumes

If you’re like most people then you have a separate partition where you store your data (mp3s, torrents, software, movies etc).  Most people set these partitions up with the default settings (NTFS, 4kb cluster size).  However, in most cases the … Continue reading

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Try something new…. AskEraser….

I’ve been looking around for a new search engine besides Google.  I’m worried about giving them all the business and their privacy policy scares me.  They’re collecting more and more of our information and no one seems to notice.  (Take … Continue reading

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Windows Anti Forensics Tip of the Day…

I previously wrote about how to have your system automatically clear the pagefile before a reboot or shutdown.  There’s a couple other steps I recommend you make on your system… Automatically permanently delete (Nuke on Delete)- Normally Delete sends files … Continue reading

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Jailbreak: Export non-exportable Windows certificates

I came across a handy (& free) Windows utility that allows you to export “non exportable” certificates.  Do you want to get at those recovery certificates or private keys? Jailbreak can be snatched here: https://www.isecpartners.com/jailbreak.html

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