November 29th, 2011 by lhaas                              

Full disk encryption is too good, says US intelligence agency

New study shows just how hard full disk encryption is to crack. Can it be too good?

You might be shocked to learn this, but when a quivering-lipped Chloe from 24 cracks the encryption on a terrorist’s hard drive in 30 seconds, the TV show is faking it. “So what? It’s just a [...]

August 10th, 2011 by ahoog                              

A Geeks Guide to Digital Forensics – video now online

The nice folks over at Google Chicago have posted my “A Geek’s Guide to Digital Forensics” (video | presentation) on their GoogleTechTalk channel.  It was posted about a week ago and has had 1,079 views…which is impressive only because the thing weighs in at nearly 56 minutes. If you suffer through the whole [...]

August 2nd, 2011 by ahoog                              

Installing open source forensic tools on Linux

Earlier this year, we presented at a forensic meeting up in Chicago. The folks at the Naperville Police department were kind enough to host us. For those who were instated in the install commands (so you don’t have to type by hand), here they are:

Update your system

sudo apt-get update sudo [...]

July 28th, 2011 by lhaas                              

IBM speeds storage with flash: 10B files in 43 minutes

With an eye toward helping tomorrow’s data-deluged organizations, IBM researchers have created a super-fast storage system capable of scanning in 10 billion files in 43 minutes.

This system handily bested their previous system, demonstrated at Supercomputing 2007, which scanned 1 billion files in three hours.

Key to the increased performance was the [...]

July 20th, 2011 by lhaas                              

Was Casey Anthony prosecuted with inaccurate data?

Ripped from the headlines: a real life example of the use of computer forensics and why experts matter.

A former Canadian police sergeant who specializes in computer forensic analysis, Mr. Bradley said he first became suspicious of the data after he testified on June 8. He said he had been called to testify by [...]

July 6th, 2011 by lhaas                              

Computerworld: IBM announces computer memory breakthrough

IBM Thursday announced a breakthrough in computer memory technology, which may lead to the development of solid-state chips that can store as much data as NAND flash technology but with 100 times the performance and vastly greater lifespan.

Currently, NAND flash memory products, such as SSDs, have write rates as high as 2Gbit/sec.

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June 16th, 2011 by ahoog                              

Google Tech Talk – Geeks Guide to Digital Forensics – June 2011

Our presentation, “A Geeks Guide to Digital Forensics”, was a lot of fun today at Google Chicago. The presentation was video taped by Google and we will update this post once it has been uploaded and posted on the Google Tech Talk YouTube channel.

Browse the slide images in the gallery below. A [...]

June 14th, 2011 by ahoog                              

Google Tech Talk – A Geeks Guide to Digital Forensics

Update 1: I gave the talk today. Click here to view the presentation and more info about the talk.

I’m going to give a Tech Talk at Google Chicago this Thursday (06/16/2011):

A Geeks Guide to Digital Forensics

This talk will provide a technical introduction to digital forensics geared towards fellow geeks [...]

June 8th, 2011 by teull                              

Computer Forensics testimony in high-profile murder trial

Although such testimony is commonplace these days since so much is done online, it still amazes me that people search for keywords related to a crime on their computers. Don’t they watch CSI?

Someone conducted keyword searches on “chloroform” using a desktop computer located in the home Casey Anthony shared with her [...]

June 7th, 2011 by teull                               1 comment

Mobile App Security Presentation – Andrew Hoog

This presentation was delivered in June 2011 at the 5th Annual Mobile Banking & Emerging Applications Summit in New Orleans.

Browse the slide images in the gallery below. A PDF version is available; make sure you are registered on the site and then use this link: PDF Download.

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