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Giving Back In DFIR
by Jessica Hyde, Magnet Forensics A few months back I was on my way to BSides NoVa, having a conversation with someone competing in the CTF about where his team would donate the prize money to if they won. I suggested some organizations related to helping young people learn about Information Security. A few hours later, … Continue reading
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From the 17th to the 19th of September 2018, Forensic Focus will be attending the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in San Antonio, Texas, USA. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any speakers you think we should interview, please let us know in the comments. Below is an overview of … Continue reading
by Arman Gungor Internal Date is an IMAP Message Attribute that indicates the internal date and time of a message on an IMAP server. This is a different timestamp than the Origination Date field found in the message header and can be instrumental in authenticating email messages on an IMAP server. Let’s start with an example. The perpetrator … Continue reading
by Asanka Sayakkara, Nhien-An Le-Khac & Mark Scanlon Abstract Digital forensics is a fast-growing field involving the discovery and analysis of digital evidence acquired from electronic devices to assist investigations for law enforcement. Traditional digital forensic investigative approaches are often hampered by the data contained on these devices being encrypted. Furthermore, the increasing use of IoT devices with … Continue reading
by Quan Le, Oisín Boydell, Brian Mac Namee & Mark Scanlon Abstract Current malware detection and classification approaches generally rely on time consuming and knowledge intensive processes to extract patterns (signatures) and behaviors from malware, which are then used for identification. Moreover, these signatures are often limited to local, contiguous sequences within the data whilst … Continue reading
by Felix Anda, David Lillis, Nhien-An Le-Khac & Mark Scanlon Abstract In today’s world, closed circuit television, cellphone photographs and videos, open-source intelligence (i.e., social media/web data mining), and other sources of photographic evidence are commonly used by police forces to identify suspects and victims of both online and offline crimes. Human characteristics, such as … Continue reading
by Scar de Courcier This article is a recap of some of the main highlights from the Techno Security & Forensic Investigation Conference 2018, which took place in Myrtle Beach, SC from the 3rd-6th June 2018. Under the sunny skies of South Carolina, the digital forensic community got together at the beginning of June this year … Continue reading
