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7 days ago
4 min

Top 3 Reasons Why Organizations Should Get a Penetration Test Today

Cybersecurity breaches and other incidents have become increasingly frequent and more impactful over the last year. In a recent high-profile

Liana Parakesyan

Nov 4, 2020
6 min

Masterful Policies and Compliance: Industries, Policies, Regulations, and How to Get Started

Policy assessments should be considered as a cybersecurity best practice and should be conducted annually with other assessments such as vul

Jeffrey Magloire

Oct 19, 2020
4 min

Dynamic Analysis Using Autopsy - Part 1

This blog is going to walk you through using the OPSWAT MetaDefender service with the Autopsy digital forensic tool. The first step would be

Daniel Chen

Aug 5, 2020
3 min

Enhancing Digital Forensics with X-Ways X-Tensions: Metadefender Plugin

To start, you’ll need your MetaDefender Cloud API key ready. You can sign up for MetaDefender’s free API key at opswat.com. You can downloa

Mattia Campagnano & Wade Ma

Jul 14, 2020
9 min

Vulnerability Scanners and the SAINT Experience

Vulnerability scanners assist in the identification and detection of vulnerabilities arising from misconfigurations or insecure coding with

Mattia Campagnano

May 20, 2020
6 min

Weaponizing Windows Binaries and Scripts (LOLBAS): What's Old Is New Again

One of the latest trends in penetration testing and malware development is to weaponize the so-called Living Off the Land Binaries and Scrip

Peter Quach

Mar 18, 2020
6 min

Cybersecurity Tips to Get Through the Coronavirus Pandemic

As we all learn to deal with this new, temporary norm, we must not sacrifice our convictions for strong cybersecurity. Hackers are currently

Wade Ma

Mar 3, 2020
9 min

Automated Obfuscation of Windows Malware and Exploits Using O-LLVM

Today’s malware authors and exploit developers have automated methods of obfuscating their software, When these techniques are combined with

Mattia Campagnano

Feb 3, 2020
9 min

Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Should You Pay the Ransom?

However, sometimes the answer to this question cannot be so clear-cut. Much depends on how valuable the information being held for ransom is

Fred Mastrippolito

Jun 18, 2019
2 min

The CISO asked me to run Ransomware on his laptop

The executive’s laptop had the very latest version of a cloud-based, next-generation antivirus endpoint detection and response software, whi

Liana Parakesyan

May 15, 2019
7 min

Wi-Fi Hacking: A How To for Penetration Testers

To sniff Wi-Fi, we use Alfa USB Wi-Fi adapter which connects to laptop via USB. For longer range sniffing, the 16 dBi Yagi antenna can be co

Liana Parakesyan

Feb 21, 2019
4 min

Using Intezer Analyze to Reveal Malware Ancestry and Assist Incident Response and Forensic Investiga

Today, much of the malware still operates via the same concept of infecting machines and spreading throughout networks. Due to this, it only

Ronny Thammasathiti

Feb 15, 2019
2 min

Polito, Inc. at the George Mason University Cyber Security Innovation Forum

Speakers at the event were CEOs and Managing Directors from companies such as, Accenture Federal Services, RunSafe Security, George Mason Un

Admin

Nov 16, 2018
4 min

Enhancing Digital Forensics with ReversingLabs Plugins: Now for X-Ways!

At Polito Inc., our forensic experts often rely on X-Ways Forensics to rapidly acquire and analyze digital computer evidence. X-Ways Forensi

Roman Romanenco

Apr 5, 2018
8 min

How To Explore The Dark Web: It's Easier Than You Think

There is a lot of confusion over deep web vs. dark web; they are often used interchangeably, which is wrong. In essence the term “deep web”

Liana Parakesyan

Mar 5, 2018
3 min

Enhancing Digital Forensics with ReversingLabs Hash Query Plugin for Autopsy

Polito Inc. has partnered with ReversingLabs (RL) and has developed a plugin extension called ReversingLabs Lookup Utility for Autopsy. Auto

Admin

Feb 5, 2018
11 min

How to Build Your Own DNS Sinkhole and DNS Logs Monitoring System

While Pi-hole includes a nice web-based admin interface, I started to experiment with shipping its dnsmasq logs to the Elastic (AKA ELK) sta

Admin

Jan 4, 2018
5 min

Meltdown and Spectre: Quick Overview and Next Steps

The purpose of this blog post is not to provide an exhaustive overview of Meltdown and Spectre, but instead to provide key points and caveat

Ian Duffy

Nov 15, 2017
4 min

Unpacking script2exe Malware

Script2exe functions by packaging the original VBScript as an encrypted resource within a PE stub. The original script is retained in the EX

Admin

Oct 13, 2017
10 min

Is Kaspersky Antivirus Safe to Use?

With the important caveats that the story appears to still be evolving and many details are not publicly known at this point, recent bombshe

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Top 3 Reasons Why Organizations Should Get a Penetration Test Today

Masterful Policies and Compliance: Industries, Policies, Regulations, and How to Get Started

Dynamic Analysis Using Autopsy - Part 1

Enhancing Digital Forensics with X-Ways X-Tensions: Metadefender Plugin

Vulnerability Scanners and the SAINT Experience

Weaponizing Windows Binaries and Scripts (LOLBAS): What's Old Is New Again

Cybersecurity Tips to Get Through the Coronavirus Pandemic

Automated Obfuscation of Windows Malware and Exploits Using O-LLVM

Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Should You Pay the Ransom?

The CISO asked me to run Ransomware on his laptop

Wi-Fi Hacking: A How To for Penetration Testers

Using Intezer Analyze to Reveal Malware Ancestry and Assist Incident Response and Forensic Investiga

Polito, Inc. at the George Mason University Cyber Security Innovation Forum

Enhancing Digital Forensics with ReversingLabs Plugins: Now for X-Ways!

How To Explore The Dark Web: It's Easier Than You Think

Enhancing Digital Forensics with ReversingLabs Hash Query Plugin for Autopsy

How to Build Your Own DNS Sinkhole and DNS Logs Monitoring System

Meltdown and Spectre: Quick Overview and Next Steps

Unpacking script2exe Malware

Is Kaspersky Antivirus Safe to Use?

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