Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 We take a close look at our logs and try to explain every anomaly we see. Tuesday morning we saw a network traffic anomaly for a few minutes from one of our non-critical machines. These happen occasionally, and we typically identify them as an employee or an automated script.In this ...
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011 A new data storage technique provides security, as well as plausible deniability. Whereas encrypted data can be easily spotted--if not necessarily decrypted, without obtaining the decryption keys from the device owner--the new technique disguises stored data as random disk fragmentation. When implemented correctly, a digital forensic investigator might not even ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2011 People wonder if their password is a good password. I often come across two distinct groups of people. The first would fall into a "just use any word" category, which is a very bad practice for picking passwords. The second group will mix in a few numbers in order to ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 We are today proude to announce the release of RawCap, which is a free raw sockets sniffer for Windows.Here are some highlights of why RawCap is a great tool to have in your toolset:Can sniff any interface that has got an IP address, including 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback)RawCap.exe is just 17 kBNo ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 Dropbox is a popular tool used to sync files between multiple computers and devices that a user owns. A user installs the software, designates a folder to keep syncronized, and is able to access those files among other machines that they own. The tool was even picked as one of ...
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