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
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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
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
Visualising data: Search Terms
I've finally finished the first draft of my thesis, I now have a week and a few days to edit and finish it- which is plenty of time since I'm fairly happy with it as it stands. Another of Webscavator's visualisations is a word cloud for search engine query terms. The more a term has … Continue reading Visualising data: Search Terms
Visualising data: File Directories
Some index.dat files record not only websites visited, but also the files on the computer (and any other devices) which have been opened. This gives an accurate account of what files have been viewed and possibly edited. Using the registry, any files accessed that are not on the C: drive can be linked to a USB stick … Continue reading Visualising data: File Directories
Visualising data: Heatmaps
I've nearly finished Webscavator, my visualisation application for the forensic analysis of user web history! The next series of blog posts will describe some of the visualisations I've used and how to code them. They are all written in server-side Python and client-side Javascript using jQuery. First on the list are heatmaps. These visualisations show the data … Continue reading Visualising data: Heatmaps
Webscavator
So I started my thesis 'officially' yesterday, after being told we all were allowed to proceed to masters following the exam board meeting. No actual results posted up yet, but hopefully I did well! Unofficially, I've been working on my thesis for about 2 weeks, just making the skeleton application. I'm making a program called … Continue reading Webscavator
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