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 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 Read more…
I am a professional software engineer and do an absolute ton of devops work as well. I’ve actually never been hired into devops roles as I always go in as a programmer, but I also always end up doing devops 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 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 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…