Over the years I’ve run quite a few different websites. Most of them have ended up in Internet dustbin but now and again there is content I want to preserve. Recently I pulled a site from a server that was so old it’d begun making trips to Bournemouth and getting […]
Recently I’ve had more than the average spam arriving in the inbox of my ‘throwaway’ account. It’s managing to get through the spam filters of Google, which is odd as generally I’d say they do a fair job in cleansing this sort of thing. The first thing I noted is […]
It was time for a forensics challenge today. The description suggested to me we’d be digging out the floppy disc for Volatility, a great tool for digging information out of memory dumps: Suspicious traffic was detected from a recruiter’s virtual PC. A memory dump of the offending VM was captured […]
Illumination, a 20 point Hack the Box forensics challenge, asks the question “can you find the secret token?”. The back story is that a Junior Developer has just switched to a different source control platform. Theres a ZIP file to download, as with most of these challenges, which when inflated […]
In the news recently a leak of emails from ULA, one of SpaceX’s biggest rivals, were cooking-up a large serving of conspiracy pie. I’m actually less interested what may or may not have been going on and wanted to focus on if I could prove if this correspondence was genuine. […]