Holiday Hack Sneak Peek 2019
It seems the SANS Annual Holiday Hack Challenge buzz begins earlier and earlier every year. This year is no exception. My first HolidayHack CheatSheet of the season is here! HUGE…
Magnet User Summit 2019 Impressions
I wanted to make a quick note to start the blogging back up again (yes, I know -- don't judge me!) by discussing a recent Digital Forensics Summit that took…
Forensic Tools
Forensic tools, whether software or hardware, or just like traditional forensic science tools - they are designed by humans and typically meant to be used by trained users who understand…
Episode 886: The Price Of A Hack
"The Price of a Hack" w/Chris DiIenno of Mullen Coughlin LLC law firm, experts in legal advice following or during a cyber security event, along w/Dina Temple-Raston of NPR. This…
Android Nougat Image Available to the DFIR Community
Joshua Hickman has created, for the DFIR community, an image of Android 7.x (Nougat) populated with apps and test data for a wide range of usage - everything from testing…
Office 365 DFIR
A planned methodology for developing and implementing a forensically sound incident response plan in Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud environment must be thoroughly researched and re-evaluated over time as the system…
Rick Kiper’s Research Project
A personal friend and FBI colleague of mine, Rick Kiper, has a research project that he is currently working on for Forensics. The next phase of his research study is…
Yandex.ru and Intrusion Investigations
Quite often I notice that unauthorized actors who compromise RDP access will execute a native web browsing application and navigate to a website such as whoer.net to enumerate browser header…