Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
How Much Data is Created Every Day in 2021?
Ever wondered how much data is created every day? - Every day, 310 billion emails are sent - In 2020, people created 1.7 MB of data every second - In 2020, users sent around 500,000 Tweets per day - In 2021, 68% of Instagram users view photos from brands - [...]
SANS SIFT Update Spring 2021
The SIFT Workstation contains well over 200 forensics, incident response, and pentesting tools pre-installed. Many fan favorites like Volatility, Plaso/log2timeline, and RegRipper have been updated to the latest versions. Tools like ddrescue and testdisk have long been useful when dealing with damaged drives or partitions. Malware analysis tools like pdf-parser, [...]
Art in Pilar’s Garden
If you love art, and meeting artists, and seeing original works of art... this is an event you must attend. Pilar Pobil is one of the best artists and a hidden gem in Utah. This three day event has become a mainstay of the Utah art scene and features nine [...]
The Continuing Challenges of Deepfake Content and IT Technology
Ashley Watters of CompTIA lists many leading challenges that continue to press issues in 2021. What are the Current IT Issues? Cybersecurity Threats Continue Data Protection and Privacy Supporting Remote Work Regaining Trust in Technology What is the Solution to IT-Related Problems? and more... read full article here
Tesla Car Hacked Remotely From Drone
Two researchers have shown how a Tesla — and possibly other cars — can be hacked remotely without any user interaction. They carried out the attack from a drone. This was the result of research conducted last year by Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of Kunnamon and Benedikt Schmotzle of Comsecuris. The analysis [...]
SmartPhone Triage Forensic Tool
SmartPhone Triage is an innovative solution combining digital forensics and blockchain to collect mobile and cloud data. The tool has been focusing vigorously on the law enforcement agencies and corporate security departments as a whole. Case Management Choose between Automatic, Batch Automatic, Single, Semi-Automatic, File import, scheduled screenshot, screen recording [...]
Rusolut Visual NAND Reconstructor 4.2 is now available to Registered Users
eMMC-NAND RECONSTRUCTOR is a solution for data extraction and recovery from eMMC chips through NAND interface. It is ultimate and revolutionary technology that is mainly designed for law enforcement (mobile forensics and other areas). It provides the deepest level of data recovery from areas of eMMC chips that have never [...]
Social Network Harvester (SNH) – Software for Social Network Forensics
Collect - Analyze - Visualize social media information Social Network Harvester (SNH) is an automated, investigative solution for law enforcement agencies, management consultancies, law firms, detective agencies or others who collect and evaluate data from social networks. The Social Network Harvester (SNH) comprehensively analyzes and visualizes friendship relationships, posts, images, [...]
Future of IoT: 6 trends and predictions to watch
Although challenges with IoT security and data privacy persist, IoT will continue to grow, propelled by targeted business goals and AI for data analytics. 1. IoT projects will be driven by business goals, not technology 2. IoT architectural groundwork will create more use cases 3. Interoperability issues will eventually winnow [...]
Top 12 most commonly used IoT protocols and standards
There were 11.7 billion IoT connections in 2020 versus 10 billion non-IoT connections -- e.g., smartphones and computers -- according to market research firm IoT Analytics. And researchers there estimated the number of IoT connections will swell to 30.9 billion by 2025. By Mary K. Pratt