My name's Marco and I live in a small town in the region of Tuscany, Italy. I'm graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa and attended the MSc in Information Security at the same university.
My main interests and areas of expertise are Linux, ethical hacking, digital forensics and OSINT (Open Source Intelligence). I've had the opportunity to combine them both as a freelancer consultant and as the author of the book Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials and the video course Digital Forensics with Kali Linux , both published by Packt Publishing.

For any additional information about my consultancy activities or my publications, feel free to contact me.

Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

This video course teaches you all about the forensic analysis of computers and mobile devices that leverage the Kali Linux distribution. You’ll get hands-on, seeing how to conduct each phase of the digital forensics process: acquisition, extraction, analysis, and presentation, using the rich set of open source tools that Kali Linux provides for each activity.
The majority of this tools are also installed on other forensic Linux distributions, so the course is not only limited to Kali Linux but is suitable for any open-source forensic platform in the same way.
We start by showing you how to use the tools (dc3dd in particular) to acquire images from the media to be analyzed, either hard drives, mobile devices, thumb drives, or memory cards. The course presents the Autopsy forensic suite and other specialized tools, such as the Sleuth Kit and RegRipper, to extract and analyze various artifacts from a Windows image. It also shows how to perform the analysis of an Android device image using Autopsy. Next, we cover file carving and the recovery of deleted data, and then the process of acquiring and analyzing RAM memory (live analysis) using the Volatility framework. Another topic is treated in the course, that is network forensics; indeed, the course covers how to use Wireshark to capture and analyze network data packets. Finally, we demonstrate how to report and present digital evidence found during the analysis. By the end of the course, you will be able to extract and recover data, analyze the acquired data, and report and present digital evidence from a device.

The video course is no longer for sale anymore.
You can find a snapshot of its page on Packt Publishing website on the Wayback Machine:
Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials

The book introduces you to wireless penetration testing and describes how to conduct its various phases. After showing you how to install Kali Linux on your laptop, you will verify the requirements of the wireless adapter and configure it. Next, the book covers the wireless LAN reconnaissance phase, explains the WEP and WPA/WPA2 security protocols and demonstrates practical attacks against them using the tools provided in Kali Linux, Aircrack-ng in particular. You will then discover the advanced and latest attacks targeting access points and wireless clients and learn how to create a professionally written and effective report.

You can find more info about the book on the Packt Publishing web page:
Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials

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Articles

"Autopsy 4.x, the GUI forensic analysis suite", published on eForensics Magazine, February 2019

I have written the following articles on OSSIM the open source SIEM:

• "OSSIM: a Careful, Free and Always Available Guardian for Your Network" published on the June 2014 issue of Linux Journal
• "The guardian of networks", nr 152 - February/March 2014 Linux Magazine Italian edition

   

 

 

Technical reviews

 

 

In October-November 2013 I've been one of the technical reviewers of the book Getting Started with FortiGate by Packt Publishing, a step-by-step tutorial that teach you everything you need to know about the deployment and management of a FortiGate unit.