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Devon Ackerman is the digital forensicator and incident responder behind the DFIR Definitive Compendium Project. Currently employed as a Managing Director at Kroll Cyber Risk...

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DFIR Research

The DFIR Research list is a list of potential digital forensic and incident response research projects contributed by community...

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DFIR & Cybersecurity Careers

Looking to transition into the world of Digital Forensics, Incident Response, Cyber Security, etc? This page is for you. Employers will list opportunities...

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Featured Page of the Month

November 2022 Featured Page of the Month is a link to the SANS Difference Makers Awards as it is voting time! Our very own Andrew Rathbun is nominated in a few different places. Vote!

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Use this singular form for all Research Ideas, Resource submissions, and Site Feedback. We welcome any and all submissions to help make the site more useful to the DFIR community.

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Blog

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/25/2022

U.S. govt seizes domains used in 'pig butchering' scams For the first time, the U.S. Department of Justice seized seven domains that hosted websites linked to "pig butchering" scams, where fraudsters...

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/24/2022

France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school The French minister of national education and youth has said that free versions of Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workspace should not be...

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/23/2022

FCC Rule for Blocking Overseas Robocalls Receives Approval The Office of Management and Budget has signed off on a Federal Communications Commission rule requiring gateway providers to block calls on...

AboutDFIR Site Content Update 11/22/22

Tools & Artifacts - Windows - new entries added - iTunes, Recent Items, and Email Forensics Tools & Artifacts - Linux - new entry added - Linux History File Timestamps Tools & Artif...

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/22/2022

India To Ease Up On Cross-Border Data Transfers India has relaxed its planned restrictions on cross-border data flows, with a revision to its planned data protection laws. The new Digital Personal Da...

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/21/2022

Australia's Hack-Back Plan Against Cyberattackers Raises Familiar Concerns The Australian government's defiant proclamation recently that it would hack back against hackers that sought to target orga...

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/18/2022

Hive Ransomware Attackers Extorted $100 Million from Over 1,300 Companies Worldwide The threat actors behind the Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme have launched attacks against over 1,300 co...

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/17/2022

Russia’s cyber personnel has ‘underperformed’ in Ukraine: U.S. Defense official A senior Pentagon official on Wednesday said that Russia’s cyber personnel “underperformed” during the initial invasion...

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/16/2022

Twitter Users Warn Others Using Two-Factor Authentication Not To Sign Out As 2FA Texts Aren't Arriving Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter has proven controversial, confusing, amusing, and sometimes e...

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/15/2022

Australia to 'stand up and punch back' against cyber crims Australia's government has declared the nation is planning to go on the offensive against international cyber crooks following recent high-p...

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/14/2022

NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages The US National Security Agency (NSA) has released guidance encouraging organizations to shift programming languages from the likes of C and C+...

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/11/2022

Apple Confirms Emergency SOS via Satellite Launching on iPhone Later This Month Apple today confirmed in a press release that Emergency SOS via Satellite for iPhone 14 models will be launching in the...