Introduction to Penetration Testing – Part 3a – Active Reconnaissance

by Si Biles, Thinking Security Apologies in advance, this is a bit of a connective blog entry – this is a big topic, and it needs some scen...

Authenticating Internet Web Pages as Evidence: a New Approach

By John Patzakis [1] and Brent Botta [2] Previously, in Forensic Focus, we addressed the issue of evidentiary authentication of social medi...

"Finding Evidence in an Online World" webinar recording and PDF now available

A recording of this week's webinar "Finding Evidence in an Online World - Trends and Challenges in Digital Forensics" is now ...

Retrieving Digital Evidence: Methods, Techniques and Issues

by Yuri Gubanov  yug@belkasoft.com Belkasoft Ltd.  http://belkasoft.com This article describes the various types of digital forensic eviden...

Parallels hard drive image converting for analysis

by zoltanszabodfw The other day, talking to one of the analysts in Dallas, a question emerged about analyzing Parallels’ virtual machine ha...

Introduction to Penetration Testing – Part 2 – The Discovery Phase – Passive Reconnaissance

by Si Biles ( @si_biles ), consultant for  Thinking Security PenTest, like forensics, is almost as much an art as it is a science – you ca...

Interview with John H. Riley, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

John, can you tell us something about your background and why you decided to teach digital forensics? First, thanks for the opportunity to d...