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3. April 201625. April 2016

A practical guide to privacy online

In respect of privacy on internet there are a lot of tools and techniques available to minimize your traces. Tor Browser is one such “tool” if you like to appear anonymous while browsing the web.

Privacy tools.ic has made a rather nice list of VPN providers, browsers, configurations, ad-ons, even OS do’s and don’ts. Check it out here.

By the way, if you don’t use it yet, test Firefox with Web Developer ad-on, or all extensions for Chrome that can be used to show what sites you visit can see and not.

13. March 201613. March 2016

Can’t fint the password for Windows Homegroup file sharing?

Had an issue with Windows 10 file sharing in my home network the other day. The issue was that when I was to connect one of my Windows machines to the Homegroup, all of them were saying “USER on PC has created a homegroup on the network”, where USER and PC listed on one machine was the one of the other on the network. That was fine, until I were to connect and was promped to enter a password – WHAT PASSWORD?

The reason was aparently that when multiple machines had created a Homegroup for file and printer sharing, none of them showed the Homegroup password to be used.

The solution was apparently (after fidling with it for a while) to turn all machines off, start one of them over again and finally I could establish a Homegroup and got the password required for the other machines to use.

Here is Microsofts response to the issue.

2. March 2016

How not to do Information Security

Nice blog post from Lenny Zeltser about mistakes to avoid working with Information Security. Most are probably obvious for many of you, but still… How many do just “Ban the use of external USB drives while not restricting outbound access to the Internet”? 🙂

26. February 2016

Whaling against the c-suite

Phishing is noicy if you know what you are after, whaling is more targeted. What would your C*O do with a sophisticated whaling attack?

Interesting article reflecting on whaling trends.

6. February 2016

A quick peek into mainframe security in Insecure magazine

The magazine is free here.

18. January 2016

Tor visualized

Just love the visual effect of this TorFlow, created by Uncharted. If you like to check out the source code if the visuals are actually real, it has been published on GitHub here.

14. January 201618. January 2016

SlemBunk, yet another trojan app targeting those “stupid” users

Again, for this one to work, even on Android they need user interactions. And what is more clever than making it a drive-by exploit pushing apks on porno sites.

However I like the effort for hiding the malicious code: “This “dropper” app is using a packing technique to hide some functions that generate code on the fly and save it to another temporary APK in the device’s storage…” Read more here.

22. December 2015

Simple file recovery

Have been out travelling in south america, and guess what. Corrupted camera memory cards are rather common. Used the simple recovery tool Recuva from Piriform to crawl a friends photos and videos from a corrupted and later formatted memory card. Worked perfectly and best of all it has a great user interface, compared to all those command line forensic toolkits such as Skalpel and Foremost.

Check it out here

21. July 201527. August 2015

Just Spotted an Airplane Glory

I was out flying the other day, coming home from a weekend at the west coast of Norway. In the air, sitting at the window I spotted this Glory phenomenon. I found it very exciting and took a few photos. The phenomenon is covered in this Wikipedia site. Continue reading “Just Spotted an Airplane Glory”

6. July 201527. August 2015

Xperia Z1 broken screen easy fixed

Just diasembled this broken Xperia Z1 with a New lcd display. The module based architecture of this peace made it simple. Keep in mindre that you break the guaranty and that the glue might hve to be replaced if you are too eager disasembling it. Continue reading “Xperia Z1 broken screen easy fixed”