What’s New In Open Source Digital Forensics: OSDFCon 2020 Recap

The Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (OSDFCon) kicked off its second decade virtually and, thanks to sponsorships, free of charge. Usually hosted each October in Washington, D.C., OSDFCon this year drew 12,000 people from around the globe: a massive increase

Forensic Acquisition Of Solid State Drives With Open Source Tools

by Josué Ferreira Abstract From a judicial perspective, the integrity of volatile storage devices has always been a reason for great concern and therefore, it is important for a method to forensically acquire data from Solid State Drives (SSD) to

KS – an open source bash script for indexing data

KS – an open source bash script for indexing data ABSTRACT:  This is a keywords searching tool working on the allocated, unallocated data and the slackspace, using an indexer software and a database storage . Often during a computer forensics

How to Create an Open Source Network Forensics Appliance

By Ondrej Krehel Chief information security officer at Identity Theft 911 okrehel@IDT911.com IntroductionEncryption and anti-forensics attacker techniques are commonly encountered in incident response investigations, while the power of network forensics intelligence is often overlooked by busy IT and legal departments.

Analyzing Exchange and mbox e-mail files using Free and Open Source Software

First published December 2005 Mike Harrington, CFCE EnCE linuxchimp@gmail.com Innovative Digital Forensic Solutions, L.L.C. Mark Lachniet, CISA CISSP mlachniet@analysts.com Analysts International Table of Contents 1.Document Overview 2.LIBPST/LIBDBX 3.Locating Exchange .dbx/.pst Files 3.2 Locating files in the filesystem 3.2.1 Deleted Files