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A Linux Forensics Starter Case Study

Linux is the dominant operating system used for the millions of web servers on which the Internet is built. ZDNet reports, in fact, that 96.3% of web servers run Linux. Because of this, a large number of incidents involving web

How To Build A Contact Tracing App On Nuix Software

In this brief contact tracing demo, we’re first going to create a new case in Nuix Workstation. We’ll add evidence to the case in the form of real-time data from a Kafka topic, as you can see here. Switching over

After SQLite, What Next? A Must-Read Primer On LevelDB

Over recent weeks, Alex Caithness, Principal Analyst at CCL Solutions, has been exploring the LevelDB database format. As ubiquitous as SQLite has become owing to the popularity of iOS and Android, he argues, “The trio of HTML5, CSS and JavaScript

How To Use UFED Physical Analyzer 7.33

We set out on a journey to devise a more intuitive design with improved navigation, visuals, and tools to optimize UFED Physical Analyzer to help you save valuable time and get the job done accurately. Now you can find evidence

Research Roundup: Finding New Cultural And Technical Opportunities

One of the most interesting and important things about digital forensics research is the way legal, cultural, and operational landscapes in different countries inform and even drive the research. In other words, digital technology doesn’t exist in a vacuum, even

Global Perspectives From Women In Digital Forensics

Women mathematicians and scientists invented the computer algorithm, software as we know it, and the foundation of telecommunications, including wireless communication. They helped break secret enemy messages during World War II, and ensured men got not just into space, but

Knowledge Sharing And Transfer In Digital Forensics

Sharing is at the heart of any community, and no less so in digital forensics and incident response. Sharing helps to avoid reinventing the wheel — or unnecessarily overcomplicating it. That’s especially true as the complexity of digital evidence advances

Automated Control Logic Forensics In Industrial Control Systems

Upon reading the title, the first few questions that might come to a reader’s mind are: what are Industrial Control Systems? Why are they important? How can an attacker attack them? What is control logic, engineering software, etc.? How does

25 Days, 25 Questions: Part 4 – Lab And Tool Standards

Editor’s note: This article concludes our four-part series written by Mr. Santosh Khadsare, our guest digital forensics expert from New Delhi, India, based upon his recent LinkedIn series, #25Days25Questions. More about Mr. Khadsare is in his bio below. On 18

Managing Mountains Of Evidence

One truism about digital forensics is that every case is different.  As the technology has evolved, we have had to come up with new and inventive ways to problem-solve and work around issues in both the mobile and computer forensic

Telling Digital Stories: Making Forensic Evidence Persuasive

Information, both substantive and temporal, gleaned through a forensic data investigation may be critically important to the issues in a legal case. Thanks to today’s technologies and investigative methods, this important evidence has never been as precise, accurate, effective, detailed,