Category Archives: Tool Review

Reviewing the HBTool HB-019 Desoldering Iron: It Probably Won’t Shock You

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This unholy lovechild of a cheap solder sucker and an even cheaper soldering iron is the HBTool HB-019 desoldering iron. It came to me for the princely sum of five pounds ($7). So for somewhere between the cost of a pint of foaming ale and the pub’s pie and mash I’d eat alongside it, what had I got?

Regular Hackaday readers will be familiar with my penchant for ordering cheap tools and other electronic gizmos from the usual suppliers of Far Eastern tech, and subjecting them to review for your entertainment and edification. Sometimes the products are so laughably bad …read more

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What’s New in Windows Application Execution?

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One of the great pleasures of performing Windows forensics is there is no shortage of application execution artifacts.  Application execution tells us what has run on a system and is often the pivot point that reveals important activity on the system.  Why was FTP run on this workstation?  Is it normal to see execution of […] Continue reading What’s New in Windows Application Execution?→

What’s New in Windows Application Execution?

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One of the great pleasures of performing Windows forensics is there is no shortage of application execution artifacts.  Application execution tells us what has run on a system and is often the pivot point that reveals important activity on the system.  Why was FTP run on this workstation?  Is it normal to see execution of […] Continue reading What’s New in Windows Application Execution?→

Registry Analysis with CrowdResponse

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The third release of the free CrowdResponse incident response collection tool is now available!  This time around we are including plugins facilitating collection of Windows registry data.  Our inspiration for this release was one of those vulnerabilities that just won’t die, Windows Sticky Keys, and we’ll show how to identify this attack while demonstrating the […] Continue reading Registry Analysis with CrowdResponse→

Registry Analysis with CrowdResponse

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The third release of the free CrowdResponse incident response collection tool is now available!  This time around we are including plugins facilitating collection of Windows registry data.  Our inspiration for this release was one of those vulnerabilities that just won’t die, Windows Sticky Keys, and we’ll show how to identify this attack while demonstrating the […] Continue reading Registry Analysis with CrowdResponse→

Signature Detection with CrowdResponse

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CrowdResponse is a free tool written by Robin Keir from CrowdStrike. Robin has a long history of developing excellent tools for the community including SuperScan, BinText, Fpipe, and CrowdInspect. The goal of CrowdResponse is to provide a lightweight solution for incident responders to perform signature detection and triage data collection. It supports all modern Windows […] Continue reading Signature Detection with CrowdResponse→