Uses of Computer Forensics
There are many practical uses of computer forensics. The recovery of data that can aid in a criminal or civil investigation is one such use. Computer forensics can also be used to recreate how and when a computer was used or how a virus was able to infiltrate into a network. Evidence can be extracted [...]
DEFT Linux 6 coming soon
It was just announced that DEFT Linux 6 will be released later this month. The downside? The initial release will be in Italian, with English and Spanish support coming in the next few months. Not that I’m complaining at all – if you’re excited to see what this release will contain, check out the DEFT [...]
SANS Blog Survey Results
Over at the SANS Blog, they recently published some stats from a survey we were all encouraged to take. Most of the information is routine, but there were some interesting things in there relating to computer forensics. First interesting thing I noticed is that the GCFA (GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst) was the most common type [...]
Computer Forensics and Social Networking Sites
SANS Computer Forensics Blog has a post about some interesting data that can be gleaned from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. This data will be more and more frequently targeted by law enforcement due to users’ lack of awareness regarding the privacy of their own data. One public Facebook page, for example, can [...]
Data Recovery Services
If you’re having problems with a hard drive and are unable to access your data, you might consider a data recovery service to help you track down those important pictures or documents. Hard drive failure is not a fun problem to have, take it from me. You might wonder about what exactly goes on at [...]
Email communication with lawyer via company-owned computer protected by attorney-client privilege
A court in New Jersey recently ruled that certain communications from a personal email account accessed through a work-issued computer are protected by attorney-client privilege. Computer forensics professionals searched the hard drive and were able to recover some of the emails from the plaintiff’s Yahoo! account. While the company in question (the defendant) had a [...]
DEFT Linux – Forensic Live CD
One of my favorite “inventions” of the modern computer age is the ability to boot into just about any operating system you’d like with a CD or USB drive. While Helix3 is an important tool in computer forensics, many other linux-based CD toolkits have multiple problems. Either a package wouldn’t be tested on certain hardware [...]
Design Flaw in Yahoo! Mail
SANS Application Security Blog has an informative article on the flawed security built-in to one of the most popular webmail clients, Yahoo! Mail. This flaw takes advantage of one of the larger online security holes that exist in most any site that requires a username and password – the password reset mechanism. A similar “hack” [...]
Computer Forensics
Computer Forensics is a constantly evolving field. There are many different techniques and methodologies to creating a forensically sound image, depending on the type of media involved. From computers to smartphones, to SIM cards and Flash drives, there is always data that needs to be extracted in a manner so that the evidence is not [...]