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…
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 the three, Windows is the most dissimilar, with MacOS and 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 just GUIs and CLIs as they certainly differentiate most from 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 overly technical in order for all parties to fully understand 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 many reasons why cybercriminals may try to alter computer evidence; 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 (or create) a local pip.conf file under your home directory: 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 when there’s a conflict. git pull upstream master --allow-unrelated-histories -s 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 industry best practises in operation today; some of these include Read more…
Introduction to Software Reuse Software reuse is the process of creating software from antecedent and extant components. There are a range of approaches that can be taken when following a reuse pattern, these can usually be grouped into one of the following abstractions: Class Libraries Reusable Components Application Frameworks Patterns / Read more…
Just a quick note: You are probably looking for a Linux command called `dtrace`. If you’re on a mac then you are probably looking for `dtruss`.