Winner of the Best Student Paper Award at DFRWS-EU 2022! Muhammad Haris Rais describes a step-wise approach to analyze the memory of specific PLCs, and subsequently find a generic framework applicable to all PLCs. By following a methodology that focused … Read more
industrial control systems
PEM: Remote Forensic Acquisition of PLC Memory in Industrial Control Systems
Winner of the Best Paper Award at DFRWS-EU 2022, Nauman Zubair proposes a new memory acquisition framework to remotely acquire a programmable logic controller (PLC)’s volatile memory while the PLC is controlling a physical process.
Session Chair: Welcome Nauman, … Read more
DFRWS-EU 2022: The Future of Digital Forensics Is Now
Moving digital forensics forward in terms of methods and frameworks, as well as organizational and cross-cultural collaboration, was an overarching theme of this year’s European Union edition of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS).
After 40 years, mainstays like file … Read more
JTAG-Based Memory Acquisition Framework
Hello everyone. My name is Muhammad Haris Rais. I am a PhD student at SAFE lab – Security And Forensics Engineering lab at Virginia Commonwealth University. The lab is led by Dr. Irfan Ahmed and is mostly focused around industrial … Read more
Behavioral-Based Forensics and Investigation Approach for Analyzing Attacks on Water Plants Using GANs
Hello. My name is Nataliia Neshenko. I am a PhD candidate in Florida Atlantic University College of Engineering & Computer Science working with Professor Fuhrt and in collaboration with Professor Bou-Harb from the University of Texas in San Antonio. Today, … Read more
The Opportunity In The Crisis: ICS Malware Digital Forensics And Incident Response
by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus
Malware aimed at industrial control systems (ICS) is nothing new. Nearly 10 years have passed since Stuxnet first targeted the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) associated with centrifuges … Read more