Forensic Focus – Articles

by Christa Miller Quite a lot has been written over recent weeks about burnout. Not only DFIR-specific posts, first from Richard Bejtlich and then, in follow-up from Eric Huber and Brett Shavers; but also news articles including: Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? (The New York Times) How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation … Continue reading →

Welcome to Logicube’s tutorial on the optional Thunderbolt I/O card on the Forensic Falcon-NEO. In this session, we’ll show you how to install and use this card. The optional Thunderbolt I/O card connects directly to Falcon-NEO’s source or destination I/O card ports. This card allows you to image directly to or from Thunderbolt USB C, … Continue reading →

by Chirath De Alwis Due to the rapid spread of internet use all over the world, email has become a primary communication medium for many official activities. Not only companies, but also members of the public tend to use emails in their critical business activities such as banking, sharing official messages, and sharing confidential files. However, … Continue reading →

by Arman Gungor Last week, I came across an interesting post on Forensic Focus. The poster, jahearne, was asking about how one can detect manipulation of an existing email in Gmail. In his hypothetical scenario, the bad actor was using Outlook to edit the message and change its contents after it was received. I wanted to … Continue reading →

by Swasti Bhushan Deb Botnets are well-known in the domains of information security, digital forensics and incident response for hosting illegal data, launching DDOS attacks, stealing information, spamming, bitcoin mining, spreading ransomware, launching brute force attacks, managing remote access to connected devices, and even propagating infection to other devices, among other things. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) … Continue reading →

by Lee Reiber, COO, Oxygen Forensics, Inc. The proliferation of recreational drones and their impact on digital incident response has dramatically increased during the last several years. In January 2018, Nextgov stated the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported over 1 million drone operators registered with the United States government. This number continues to grow … Continue reading →

From the 11th to the 13th of March 2019, Forensic Focus will be attending the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in San Diego, CA, 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 →