Lee over at Forensic4Cast has posted the audio from our super podcast, InsideTheCyberCrime4Cast. It included Lee and myself, as well as Dave Melvin & Chris Curran from Inside the Core. There was even a triumphant return (sorry, I couldn’t think of a better phrase to throw in there) of Simon Whitfield to the 4Cast. I [...]
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My latest SANS Blog Post: Stuck on Stickies
October 19th, 2010
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My latest SANS Blog Post, Stuck on Stickies, is up for your reading pleasure. It covers the artifact locations of various “Sticky Note” applications on Window Vista/7, Mac OS X and Ubuntu Operating Systems. Read it HERE Also, keep an eye on the Forensic Artifacts site that I maintain with Matt Churchill. I’ll be adding [...]
Episode 20- Lenny Zeltser talks Malware Analysis
September 15th, 2010
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Another milestone episode. Made it to 20 and was lucky to have a special guest, Lenny Zeltser. Lenny (in my opinion) is a Malware Analysis guru. He stopped by to talk about Malware Analysis, a Linux distribution called REMnux which he recently released and the two Malware courses that he teaches for SANS. Show Notes: [...]
Meetup group in the NYC area- NYC4SEC
September 8th, 2010
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Do you live in the NYC area? Are you in the field of Information Security, Incident Response or Digital Foreniscs? Are you just a technophile who is interested in personal computing security or news on the latest tech? Then read on….. The NYC4SEC Meetup group is composed of people from all fields: academic, software developers, [...]
Episode 18- ForensicArtifacts.com, McAfee, Adobe Patches, Facebook Places
August 20th, 2010
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Welcome to an episode of potpourri proportions. I cover the following topics: Forensic Artifacts Website: http://forensicartifacts.com Forensic Artifacts Twitter Feed: Follow @4n6artifacts McAfee’s List of Most Dangerous Celebrities to Search For: http://home.mcafee.com/AdviceCenter/most-dangerous-celebrities?ctst=1 Intel purchases McAfee for $7.7 Billion Dollars: Forbes article Gizmodo article The Register article Adobe Issues Out-of-Band Patches: Secunia- http://secunia.com/advisories/40766 Infosecurity (USA)- http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/11898/adobe-issues-emergency-patches-for-reader-and-acrobat/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter [...]
New Forensics Resource: ForensicArtifacts.com
August 17th, 2010
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My fellow Forensicators, I have partnered with Matt Churchill, who has recently created a new resource for the community- www.forensicartifacts.com. The aim of the site is to provide a reference database for forensic examiners looking for specific information on artifacts of operating systems, programs, and user activity. The website was set up in blog format [...]
Trusting Your Tools
August 4th, 2010
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I recently had an article posted to the SANS Forensics & Incident Response Blog titled “Trusting Your Tools”. It covers how, as a Forensicator, you can trust where you get your tools from and the results that they are providing to you. If you haven’t read it yet, head on over to the SANS Forensics [...]
Episode 16: Review- 2010 SANS Forensics & IR Summit
July 16th, 2010
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In this episode, in addition to some news bits, I give a review of the 2010 SANS Forensics & Incident Response Summit. The Summit was held on July 8-9, 2010 in Washington D.C. at the Fairmont Hotel. Show Notes: HacKid Con is looking for sponsors- Link to Sponsor package PDF and the HacKid.org website. If [...]
Yay, I’m going to the 2010 SANS Forensics & IR Summit
July 6th, 2010
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I had been trying to find a way to go to the 2010 SANS Forensics & IR Summit for some time. My work and home budgets wouldn’t allow for it. Then just as things were getting grim, I was contacted on Friday by my good friend Lee Whitfield of the Forensic4Cast podcast, asking if I [...]
SANS Introduces the Digital Forensics “Lethal Forensicator” Coin
July 1st, 2010
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Rob Lee has unveiled the new SANS Institute Digital Forensics “Lethal Forensicator” Coin over at the SANS Computer Forensic Investigations & Incident Response Blog. Rob announced that the first time these coins will be awarded will be at the 2010 SANS Digital Forensics & Incident Response Summit next week (July 8-9, 2010). Here is an [...]
