Cyber-attacks do not always originate from outside of the target organisation. Veritably around twenty-five percent of all data breaches occur from the inside, from employees or trusted individuals within the organisation (TechBeacon, 2018). Employees that have access to internal records, intellectual property or intramural trade secrets need to be watched Read more…
Squid is a proxy software that allows a computer without internet access to proxy through another computer that does have internet access. Squid is very easy to get setup and the computer that needs internet just needs to specify environment variables called HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY which have the value of Read more…
Gems are little packaged Ruby applications that allow you to extend the ecosystem and reuse countless online sources. If you don’t have Root on your Mac (work at a large company?) but you still want to use a Gem or two, then you will usually get the following error when Read more…
The story Steve has a website which sells carpets in London. Steve’s carpet business has been doing really well and Peter has recently noticed just how well. Peter decides to get into the same business and decides to build a website too. Peter’s website is soon complete and he has Read more…
Cyber forensics is hard, but it is even harder when servers are hosted in different geographical locations and an investigation needs all localities to cooperate and hand over every part of the data consistently. This is primarily due to privacy laws that each region may apply or carry out in Read more…
One of the hardest things you can do after trying to get a startup or product off the ground is to simply give up and call it a day. After all, you’ve put an awful lot of blood, sweat and tears into it, and you have probably done this for Read more…
So before we begin, let me just tell you that this is a pretty useless thing to do.. But I was playing around with it while waiting for a C++ project to finish compiling, so why not! The code (click here for the Gist): magic = 0x616f-0x414f numbers = [ Read more…
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 will render the image’s location pathname and image name over 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 view on their citizens right to privacy. Some of the 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 a few companies have truly stood the test of time. Read more…