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This is the story of Vittoria (a pseudonym, henceforth referred to as V). A few days ago, V called me in an emergency: her Facebook account had been stolen by Nhang (a pseudonym, henceforth referred to as N).
This post recounts an attempt at fraud via SMS and voice call with a fake voice, targeting an elderly person. Although this type of fraud is not new, the way it was executed deserves further examination.
I always need to set critical environment variables on my Bash (API tokens), and of course, it’s a very bad idea to store them on .bashrc. I found a simple way to store them in an encrypted file loading it only when necessary:
A few days ago, my daughter has deleted by mistake some photos on her camera. It has been 10 years at least since I recovered deleted files last time, so I had to find out how to approach the problem in 2022 with Kali Linux.
During security assessment on Smarthome applications, I usually need to analyze encrypted HTTPS communications. Applications usually check for valid certificates, but also check that certificates are signed by a specific issuer.
As private individuals we are using a lot of consumer IoT devices: almost any standard home equipment can now be remotely controlled by a specific application installed on a smartphone.
I have a “landline” VoIP number, used by my parents to reach me when my phone is turned off. Apparently, landlines number are preferred by spammers, so I wrote a simple firewall zero-trust configuration for my FRITZ!
I had an interesting chat with a friend: he was reporting to me that his photovoltaic management app wasn’t working anymore. The vendor upgraded the Cloud API breaking compatibility with older products.
Following an idea of Micheal Bazzel , I decided to write a short procedure to remove unwanted software from Android smartphones. It’s not only about cleaning the phone, it’s about privacy.