Compiling Identity in Cyber Investigations
Digital forensics analysis is the easy part of an investigation. That is not to say that the work of digital forensics is simple, but rather recovering electronic data is a rote routine of data carving and visual inspection of data. Interpreting the data…
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The Secret to Becoming More-Than-Competent in Your Job
I was part of an interesting and product online podcast today. You can check it out at: http://nopskids.com/live/ The topics ranged from hacking, forensics, how to catch hackers, and a little on how criminals sometimes get away with it.…
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Behind the Keyboard – Enfuse 2016 Presentation download
I had the amazing honor of speaking before a full room at Enfuse this week. This was not only my first time speaking at Enfuse, it was my first time at Enfuse. The conference was put together well. Kudos to poolside event coordinator. …
Read MoreReviewing a tech book technically makes you a peer reviewer…
If you have been in the digital forensics world for more than a day, then you know about peer reviews of analysis reports. If you have ‘only’ been doing IR work where forensics isn’t the main point (as in taking…
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Dude, just write the book.
I had a discussion with a peer of mine about writing a book, in that my peer has been thinking of writing a book but never gets around to doing it. After about two years of listening to how he should write his book, my response was “Dude, stop…
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Books written by practitioners are many times better than those written by those who ‘never done it’
Many of Syngress published books I’ve read are those written by people simply writing about how they do their job…while they are doing their job. They are probably not writing while they are physically doing their work, but you know what…
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The best part of writing a book is finishing the book.
I choose the title of my latest book (Hiding Behind the Keyboard) to be provocative, although the book may not completely be what you would expect if you think that it is a manual to hide yourself on the Internet. Being from Syngress, this is technically…
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Massive Government Surveillance – Not a new thing
I’m close to wrapping up my latest book, Hiding Behind the Keyboard. One of the more interesting things I found while researching the electronic surveillance chapter is a historical note of massive electronic surveillance…way back…
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I had a blast presenting for ICAC at Microsot
I gave two presentations today at the NW ICAC conference hosted by Microsoft in Redmond, Washington on the same topic in two parts. I met some great folks in the field doing so really awesome work to protect children. Plus, I got to see some…
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