24 Sep 2022
By Cassie Doemel

AboutDFIR Site Content Update 9/24/22

Tools & Artifacts - Windows - new entries added - Microsoft Management Console MRU, File Carving, WordPad Recent Files, SDeleted Files, MRU, File Signature and Hash Analysis, Desktop Wallpaper, Windows Startup Programs, Microsoft Teams, and Email Forensics Tools & Artifacts - Android - new entry added - Forensic References Tools & Artifacts - iOS - new entry added - DFU: iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and iPhone X and Shared with You Syndication Photo Library Jobs…
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30 Jul 2022
By Cassie Doemel

AboutDFIR Site Content Update 7/30/22

The site update is busy this week!  SANS Security Awareness Summit is next week Aug 3 & 4 and is still doing hybrid/virtual. This means you can still sign up to attend virtually for free today! The suggested attendees include CISOs, Security Engineers/Architects, Education/Training professionals, and Compliance/Legal/Auditing professionals. Topics include Phishing, Office365, Equifax, Metaverse, Psychology, Human Risk, and staying safe online. Tools & Artifacts - Windows - new entries added - Browser Downloads, Machine SID,…
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16 Jul 2022
By Cassie Doemel

AboutDFIR Site Content Update 7/16/22

Forensic 4:cast Award voting is now open!  Tools & Artifacts - Windows - new entries added - Event Tracing (ETW), Event Logs, Registry Hive Bins, ADS Zone.Identifier, Profiles, 360 Secure Browser, and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Tools & Artifacts - Android - new entry added - Session Tools & Artifacts - iOS - new entry added - Speed/ZRTCLLOCATIONMO Jobs - old entries cleaned up, new entries added - ZeroFox, PWC, Gartner, Zoom, Cisco, Sophos, and Arctic…
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04 Jun 2022
By Cassie Doemel

AboutDFIR Site Content Update 6/4/22

Surprise, not surprise, I posted the research!  Informally, I'd like to break down a little more what it could be useful for. App Timeline Provider logs mouse, keyboard, and audio activity for apps that are in focus on Windows 8+ machines. If you have mouse and keyboard activity within an app, you're validating that the window was "in focus" and that it was interacted with. If you have audio input and audio output, you can…
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23 Apr 2022
By Cassie Doemel

AboutDFIR Site Content Update 4/23/22

Big thing right up front - this is the last site update before the Forensic 4:Cast nominations close -  click here to nominate your favorite or most useful resources!  Annual Industry Reports- new entries added - RIA, Arctic Wolf, and Meta Jobs - new entries added - Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Zachary Piper Solutions, Cognizant, Kyndryl, and Center for Internet Security Tools & Artifacts - Windows - new entries added - Windows Registry, a graphing…
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17 Aug 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 08/17/2020

Instagram Retained Deleted Photos and Messages on Its Servers for Over a Year Instagram has awarded a security researcher a $6,000 bug bounty payout after he found photos and private direct messages on the platform's servers that he had deleted more than a year ago (via TechCrunch). Saugat Pokharel discovered that his content hadn't been removed in October after downloading a copy of his data from the photo-sharing app. Instagram introduced the download option two years ago to…
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