I question whether one can smell GSR on the decayed (no flesh, just bones left) hand of an individual. A quick and dirty search tells me you need some pretty hefty tech (like an SEM-EDX), which definitely isn't available in this book's setting.
Surmising that this poor bastard shot himself in the chest isn't a difficult step from the visual evidence, though.
Input from a #forensics professional happily accepted and considered, if one sees this.
Forensic Perspectives on Cybercrime; Human Behaviour and Cybersecurity
Forensic Perspectives in Cybercrime is the first book to combine the disciplines of cyberpsychology and forensic psychology, helping to define this emergent area. It explores the psychological factors that influence the behaviour of all those involved in cybersecurity.
It finally happened to me 😭 I accidentally deleted a bunch of files on Linux. Luckily it was on its own disk partition and that was the only one touched. I have not rebooted the computer. What are my options? I'm currently running foremost to see if I can get some things recovered but I'm doubtful. Any other ideas? Tagging @popey since he did similar work recently.
And yes i feel terrible and I just purchased more disk space today. On site and off.
"The first modern use of forensic entomology is thought to have occurred in 19th-century France, when a doctor analyzed the remains of a child found in an apartment building. By examining the fly larvae and moth pupae on the corpse and using his understanding of their life cycles, he concluded that the child had died between eight and ten months before the body was discovered." —Jordan Michael Smith for Smithsonian Magazine
This is a fully virtual class and I won't actually be in Singapore. I'll be flipping my day/night cycle and teaching from East Coast USA. This could get interesting in many different ways.
So why do “good” justice professionals do bad things? To answer that question is an article from Australia’s Ethics Centre about why “good” people, in general, do bad (or at least questionable) things. In short, people do bad things when they’re easy to justify in the name of being, well, good.
In #forensics, that means scientists and investigators can argue their moral credentials: the nature of their work, the “wins” their work has helped secure, the outcomes for vulnerable victims.
The System Informer tool replaces Process Hacker. It's very similar to Process Explorer, but open source. I've replaced these other tools in my SANS course labs (SEC505) with System Informer. I highly recommend it, it's a fun way to spend the day: https://www.systeminformer.com
'Archaeologists at Cambridge University have reconstructed the “biographies” of hundreds of the city’s ordinary medieval residents by examining their skeletons in detail, using a wealth of scientific data to fill out the life stories of poor or disadvantaged people whose names were never recorded.'
I saw a news report about the search for the Lewiston shooter - that divers are searching in the waters near the boat landing where Card's car was found. Even before hearing that his car had been found at the landing, my guess was that he probably fled on a boat.
But supposing he did commit suicide and his body is in the water - has genomic analysis on water samples ever been used to detect the presence of a corpse in a body of water? (I don't mean in order to identify a specific person, but rather to find out if there is a human body in the water).
Fascinating and sophisticated MiTM ('man in the middle') at Hetzner (DE) and Linode, targeting Russia's largest XMPP/Jabber (civilian) chat service. The authors of the article make a reasonably compelling case that "this is lawful interception Hetzner and Linode were forced to setup."
I finally had time to finish Applied Network Defense course Practical Packet Analysis by Chris Sanders and I can wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone involved in security forensic investigations for the purpose of both incident response and threat intelligence.
I picked the course mainly because through my career I dealt mostly with host indicators and forensic artifacts and wanted to make sure that I'm equally capable on the network side of things. And the course definitely delivers with clear explanation of underlying protocols and network operations as well as effective work with packet analysis tooling that prepares for wide range of scenarios. Even more importantly, the totality of skills that you will get from lectures and lab exercises provides a baseline that can be applied to any network data analysis situation, not just examples presented - and this is particularly important for security practitioners.
In this episode our investigator travels to Singapore to work on a fraud case at a large multinational semiconductor company. When two suspects emerge and begin pointing the finger at one another, some smart digital forensics and open source investigation is required to determine who is telling the truth, and who is responsible for defrauding their employer.
Find out more about this episode, and others in the Infosec Diaries series at https://infosecdiaries.com.
sigh ... no encrypted computers, no evil hackers... just one of the stupid blackmailing e-mails ("I've caught you watching p*rn.. now pay me some bitcoin or I'll tell everybody!") which go out in the hundreds of thousands, waiting for some idiot to pay for nothing.
But hey.. now I'm back at the office and can dig in the 2nd breakfast 👍
Students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico developed Tequila OS 2.0, the first Linux distribution in Latin America, specializing in performing forensic analysis in Spanish.
hashlookup-forensic-analyser version 1.3 has been released - including Bloom filter improvements and bugs fixed. You can now specify the hash algorithm used for the Bloom filter sets.
hashlookup-forensic-analyser analyses a forensic target (such as a directory) to find and report files found and not found from CIRCL hashlookup public service.
Animal CSI: Forensics comes for the wildlife trade.
Knowable Magazine reports: "Scientists are using the latest in DNA fingerprinting to combat the multibillion-dollar business of trafficking plants and animals."