Forensic 4:cast awards…. VOTE FOR MY BOOK!! (pretty please)
I am humbled again as my book,.Hiding Behind the Keyboard, has been nominated for the Forensic 4:cast Digital Forensic Book of the Year. It would be my honor if you would vote for the book. The two competing books are also great books, but…
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…
Read MoreBook Review: Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit, 4th Edition
I’ve been waiting until I received the hard copy of this book to write the review. I had the fortune of being the tech editor for this book and enjoyed every minute of it. Although I do not have an ongoing financial interest in this book, I do have a…
Read MoreVote for your favorite book
Don’t forget to vote for the XWF Guide at http://forensic4cast.com/2014/04/2014-forensic-4cast-awards-meet-the-nominees/. But of course, only vote if you liked it :) And if you didn’t like it (which means you don’t have XWF…), vote for my other…
Read MoreHumbled and honored
Forensic 4cast Awards I just saw that the book of the year nominees at the Forensic 4cast Awards include both the X-Ways Practitioner’s Guide and Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard. For those that made the nominations, that was very…
Read MoreHey look! Now there is a book on FTK.
http://amzn.to/O38eWh I previously posted that a book on FTK is sure to come along, since we have the best book of X-Ways and the other book on Encase. Now comes a book on FTK. Just like the XWF Guide or the upcoming Encase guide, I…
Read MoreNot X-Ways, but of interest to Encase users
Computer Forensics and Digital Investigation with EnCase Forensic http://amzn.to/1eY02wn I know, this has nothing to do with X-Ways Forensics. But hey, the X-Ways Practitioner’s Guide was first… Practically, this seems like a…
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