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You do not want to work in DFIR.
The fantasySo many people ask how they can start a career in the DF/IR field, which is completely understandable. The glamour is there. Hollywood shows…
Thursday June 04
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COVID-19’s Investigative Impacts on Digital Forensics/Incident Response (DFIR). AKA: All burners are now burned.
The meat and potatoesA bit is still a bit and a byte is still a byte. COVID-19 cannot change that, which means that the technical…
Saturday April 25
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Mini-WinFE 10 and WinFE 10 Updated
The short story on the newest Mini-WinFE 10 (aka, the download link):Mini-WinFE has been updated and upgraded. I update WinFE developments (including the downloads for…
Sunday April 05
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Eat your broccoli first
Something good and something not-so-good on learning DFIRThe good thing about learning DFIR is that there are probably fewer barriers and obstacles to learn and…
Saturday January 18
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The Second Decade of the 2000s is almost over!
We’ve come a long way in DFIR over the past 20 years, and even looking at just the past decade, the field has drastically grown!…
Thursday December 26
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Public Records
I have an outstanding public records request. It is not "outstanding" in the manner that I wrote a great request, but "outstanding" in that I…
Thursday December 12
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The Five Stages of the DFIR Career Grief Cycle
I have been a fan of Craig Ball ever since I met him in a forensic course years ago. I was so impressed with Craig,…
Tuesday September 10
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Our World is Going to Turn Upside Down with DeepFakes
The short storyAny person and their voice, in practically any video (past, present, or future) can have their face and voice digitally replaced with any…
Sunday September 01
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If you are comfortable in DFIR, you might be doing it wrong
I took a 3-day basic forensic course and embarrassingly enough, the instructor (in front of the class), said that I probably know everything in the…
Thursday August 29
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Everything I Needed to Know about Working in DFIR, I Learned in Boot Camp
You don’t need to experience military life to learn the valuable lessons that are drilled into military recruits. In fact, you can probably enjoy the…
Saturday August 17
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Personality of a computer
From a recent discussion that I had with Harlan Carvey about the registry, this topic is something that I touched on lightly in Placing the…
Wednesday July 31
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Add a Dab of Balance in your DFIR World
Jessica Hyde’s post of Giving Back in DFIR from 2018 is a great write up on contributing to the DFIR community, and I see her…
Monday June 24
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The Easy Way to Learn DFIR
SummaryThere is no easy way to learn DFIR. You can stop reading from here if you want.Longer versionOk. Since you are still reading, you probably…
Saturday June 08
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Game of Thrones, DFIR Style
Short post and quick opinion. I came across some tweets today about how bad people are in the #infosec/#DFIR community and I dug a little…
Thursday April 25
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Puking in DFIR
Admittedly, the title of this post is intentionally gross, because I am going to heave a few things at you, mainly about puking. As in,…
Wednesday April 17
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The #1 Reason that DFIR practitioners don’t post opinions
Lesley Carhart tweeted today that a journalist used one of her tweets in an article that would have been rephrased in a less playful manner…
Tuesday April 09
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If USB flash drives were shaped like spiders, we wouldn’t have these problems
I hate USB drives. My first experiences with the darn things was when I was a young patrol officer and the entire police department was…
Monday April 08
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Working in DFIR is glamorous, but mostly only to those not working in DFIR...
Here is something about the DFIR career field: it is one of the most exciting, eventful, and jam-packed jobs that anyone can have. Running and…
Friday April 05
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Overcommitted in DFIR
I have seen people be overcommitted, realize that they are overcommitted, yet continue forward in the most serious of situations. By overcommitted, I do not…
Friday March 22
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'You're guilty unless you can prove it'
Swift on Security tweeted a great article. The article is not great as a well-written piece or containing earth shattering news piece, but more that…
Saturday March 09
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