On Sunday 28th August, Steven and I started our Kilimanjaro adventure. We were told to meet in the garden area with our bags at 8am. It took me a long time to realise - the whole trip in fact - but time is rarely kept to here, and we should use āAfrican timeā, which Silvano … Continue reading Kilimanjaro: Day 1
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Kilimanjaro: Arriving in Tanzania
On Friday 26th August we set off from Switzerland to begin our Kili adventure. This was quite a stressful day, as we found out during our Swiss holiday we couldnāt fly directly from Geneva to Amsterdam to catch our KLM Amsterdam to Kilimanjaro airport flight. Our travel and medical insurance stipulated that the holiday must … Continue reading Kilimanjaro: Arriving in Tanzania
Growing chillies
At work we are having a competition to see who could grow the biggest chilli plant from seeds - although I think only two of us have actually managed to grow anything. It is surprisingly easy to grow chilli plants, and this is coming from a person who has managed to kill cacti and aloe … Continue reading Growing chillies
Next steps with Webscavator
Webscavator has been mentioned in the SANS forensics blog! It is very exciting when you see yourself being mentioned in a blog you read regularly! I am hoping over the summer to get the following things done with Webscavator: Get the Webscavator website hosted on a better server. I've finally got Google analytics working on the … Continue reading Next steps with Webscavator
Webscavator stats
Work has begun on making Webscavator more community open-source based, so the code has been put into github and the issues and bugs that need fixing will shortly go in there or some other free bug tracking tool. Also I will set up a mailing list for those who want updates. Since I haven't yet put Webscavator … Continue reading Webscavator stats
“Phone” “hacking”
I'm sure everyone in the UK is aware of the News of the World phone hacking stories, but hardly any of the coverage has been on the actual "hacking" and how they did it. It is in fact very trivial, and is not really hacking at all. The word "hacking" has many meanings, with Wikipedia … Continue reading “Phone” “hacking”
Computer forensics conferences in the UK
I couldn't find a definitive list of conferences, symposiums or seminars relating to computer forensics / cybercrime / IT security in the UK and Ireland anywhere so I scoured the Internet to come up with this list below. I've tried to find the ones that repeat, i.e. are not one offs. Please write a comment … Continue reading Computer forensics conferences in the UK
International Conference on Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics
Yesterday and today I was at the 1stĀ International Conference on Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics held at Strathclyde University where I presented a paper I wrote based onĀ my master's thesisĀ on web history visualisations for forensic investigations. You can download theĀ paperĀ and myĀ slidesĀ here, or contact theĀ conference organiserĀ for the whole conference book. The presentation went really well; I'm … Continue reading International Conference on Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics
Internet proxy log analysis preprocessing
Proxy logs need a bit of work done to them before you can start analysing the content. This is of course assuming you don't have a fancy product to do all this work for you ;). First, you need to work out the regular expression that defines a line in the proxy log to parse … Continue reading Internet proxy log analysis preprocessing
Windows 7 Recycle Bin Forensics
When you look at your recycle bin folder, Windows shows you all the files youāve deleted in a user friendly format ā i.e. the name of the file you originally deleted and when it was deleted. The operating system does quite a bit of work for you, as the actual files within your recycle bin … Continue reading Windows 7 Recycle Bin Forensics
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