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How to find a verify a computer forensic expert Computer forensics experts are skilled in various techniques used to recover and analyze data for use in a legal investigation. They have the ability to dig deeper and provide more than the average IT technician. When you are in need of a [...] A few months ago, we wrote up directions for setting up a headless VirtualBox in Ubuntu 10.04. Of course, we use VBox all the time and a few weeks ago setup a fresh install of BackTrack 4. Since a lot of folks have read our previous HOWTO, I thought we’d just just give a [...] Good news for opponents of censorship. But embedding data in sites such as Flickr could also make it challenging for forensics. Life is about to become more difficult for countries trying to censor access to foreign websites. A system dubbed Collage will allow users in these countries to download stories from blocked sites while visiting [...] The St. Louis chapter of ISACA will present on proactive forensics during its 2010-2011 kick-off meeting on September 15th. Click below for details. Beyond Reactive: Leverage Forensics to Increase Security and Auditability: As network environments get larger, faster, and more complex, they become more difficult to secure. With numerous applications, users, and systems interacting, and a staggering [...] Companies need to protect themselves both inside and out. According to a report by Verizon and the Secret Service, summarized in the article below, while external parties still pose the largest threat, 48 percent of security breaches originated from within the organization. Organized cyber-criminals and malicious insiders were responsible for most corporate data breaches in 2009, [...] I’m not saying we’re doing this (legally)… but I’m not saying we’re not. Passwords with fewer than 12 characters can be quickly brute-force decoded using a PC graphics processing unit (GPU) that costs just a few hundred dollars, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Article: Passwords Quickly Hacked With PC Graphics Cards – InformationWeek Data breaches are costing companies millions each year, according to the studies cited in the following article. Organizations are getting hit by at least one successful attack per week, and the annualized cost to their bottom lines from the attacks ranged from $1 million to $53 million per year, according to a newly published benchmark study [...] viaForensics CIO, Andrew Hoog, has been profiled in Digital Forensics Magazine‘s feature “Meet the Professionals.” Here’s a brief excerpt: What is your view on the convergence of computing devices such as PC’s & Mobile phones, the wider integration of IP devices and the possible implications for the Digital Forensic Investigator? I believe convergence of the computer, phone [...] This sounds like some kind of double agent thing. “These vulnerabilities would allow security researchers to ‘hack the web hackers,’” says Mr. Oudot. While some cyber criminals handcraft their own attack tools, many others take advantage of the so-called malware kits that are widely available online. These programs bundle into one convenient package everything the budding cyber [...] Anyone up for a challenge? The FBI failed to break the encryption code of hard drives seized by federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas, in Rio de Janeiro, during Operation Satyagraha. The operation began in July 2008. According to a report published on Friday (25) by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, after [...] |
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August 31st, 2010 by lhaas
