No such thing as a digital investigation

25th May 202012th September 2008 by Forensic Focus

Not long ago, the legal department at a financial services company in New York got a phone call from a hospital in London. The query: Why are you hacking us? With two known IP addresses, it wasn’t difficult for the financial firm’s information security staff to go back through the logs looking for traffic between the two organizations. And with the traffic identified, locating the computer from which the hacks were taking place didn’t take long, either. The culprit: an individual who—as their human resources records soon confirmed—had formerly worked at that very hospital. Ah, the good old days…

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100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp for 2023 - https://www.udemy.com/course/100-days-of-code/

Domestika - https://www.domestika.org/en

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