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Facebook’s Privacy Manifesto: What Does It Mean For Digital Forensic Investigations?
by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Mark Zuckerberg’s new “privacy manifesto” for Facebook marks not just a pivot in terms of how the social network shapes modern-day communication. It also marks what The Verge’s Casey Newton called “the end of the News Feed era.” Zuckerberg’s opening statement draws a distinction between the “digital equivalent of a … Continue reading
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Welcome to Logicube’s tutorial on the Falcon-NEO Forensic Imager. The Falcon-NEO allows you to image directly to or from a network repository using SMB or CIFS protocol, and to image from a network location using iSCSI. Two 10GbE ports provide extremely fast network imaging performance. In this episode, we’ll show you how to image from … Continue reading
by Oleg Skulkin Researchers became aware of the activities of the RTM group in December 2015. Since then, phishing emails distributing the trojan have been sent to potential victims with admirable persistence. From September to December 2018 the RTM group sent out more than 11,000 malicious emails. The cybercriminals, however, are not going to stop … Continue reading
by Yuri Gubanov, Danil Nikolaev & Igor Mikhailov © Belkasoft Research Carving is an irreplaceable technique widely used in data recovery and digital forensics. By using carving, we essentially perform a low-level scan of media for various artifacts, looking for signatures—specific sequences of bytes, characteristic of different types of data. This also means that carving … Continue reading
by Patrick Siewart Increasingly, cellular records and their associated location information are being used in civil litigation, where previously they were considered to be a “law enforcement only” tool. But in the age when users carry at least one smartphone with them at all times, the location data with regard to calls / texts / … Continue reading
by Chirath De Alwis Computer forensics is the process of methodically examining computer media (hard disks, diskettes, tapes, etc.) for evidence [1]. When considering computer forensics, registry forensics plays a huge role because of the amount of the data that is stored on the registry and the importance of the stored data. The extraction of … Continue reading
by Mattia Epifani The Techno Security and Forensics CA conference took place between 11th and 13th March at The Hilton Torrey Pines in La Jolla (San Diego). More than 200 attendees were present, coming from different fields like digital forensics, e-discovery, incident response and cybersecurity. Most of the attendees were from the U.S. but many … Continue reading
by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus In the 30 or so years since the advent of personal computers made digital forensics a viable career path, the profession has matured to the extent of making multiple career paths possible. Now, professionals who are interested in digital forensics have options that range from law enforcement and government investigations, … Continue reading
