Sometimes you just need to know where that image shown on your desktop is stored! For this, there is a simple but effective line of text you can pop into your terminal. defaults write com.apple.dock desktop-picture-show-debug-text -bool TRUE;killall Dock This Read more…
In Cyber Forensic there are a vast array of tools that are used throughout most investigations, however, not all jurisdictions allow or even agree to the usage of some of them. This is mainly due to each specific geographical region’s Read more…
Operating systems (OS) really have come a long way since the very first one was created by General Motors in 1956 (WIHT, 2017) to run on an IBM mainframe. Since then, there have been countless attempts at popularising OS’s and Read more…
Operating Systems come in a few competing choices, of which the major players are Apple’s MacOS, Microsoft’s Windows and then the various flavours of Linux, of which most are open sourced while the remainder are proprietary to their vendors. Of Read more…
In digital and cyber forensics, there are three main types of categories when it comes to forensic tooling. They can be considered as: Graphical User Interfaces (GUI’s) Interactive Text-based Consoles Command-line interfaces (CLI’s) Of these, the main competitors are really Read more…
Investigations are not proven in a jurisdiction until a detailed forensic report is created and presented to a judge or jury who can take it to the next level. Presenting digital evidence should be laid out that it is not Read more…
Ever since it has been possible for humans to operate computers, some have used it to perform criminal activities. Part of a cybercriminal’s gameplay is to cover up or otherwise alter digital evidence in one form or another. There are Read more…
This happens when your machine does not have the correct certificate bundle to access the Pypi repository, or you are behind a corporate proxy that just loves to block everything! An easy way to get around this is to edit Read more…
Sometimes you need to pull a remote branch and want to accept all their commits (and history) and override your own repository. It’s quite simple if you do a pull, don’t care about unrelated histories and accept all their code Read more…
Introduction to Software Development Processes Gabry defines the Software Development Methodology to be a set of related activities that lead to the production of the software (2017). While this is the simplest concept of the processes, there are many formalised Read more…