Digital forensics

In 2018 DayTrek Corp, a broadband and data communications company in the UK discovered a cross-site request-exploit on their routers. Attackers would hack...

Most attacks move through the network before hitting the target and they leave some trace. According to Locard’s exchange principle, “every contact leaves...

SSL and network monitoring aren't the most compatible of partners – even with the most sophisticated detection infrastructure in the world, you'll not derive...

Grsecurity and Xorg If we enable the "Disable privileged I/O" feature in the hardened kernel and reboot, we can't start X server. That's because Xorg uses privileged...

In your career as a computer forensics professional, you will often find that your efficiency boils down to which tool you are using for your investigations....

The term “mobile devices” encompasses a wide array of gadgets ranging from mobile phones, smartphones, tablets, and GPS units to wearables and PDAs. What...

According to Juniper Research, cybercrime losses to businesses will surpass $2 trillion by the year 2019. With data breaches occurring all around the world...

One of the biggest threats facing businesses and corporations today is that of Cyber-attacks and threats. If these are large enough in scale and magnitude,...

Data acquisition is the process of gathering information from mobile devices and their associated media. This process reduces the chances of data loss due to...

In this article, we will learn what the chain of custody entails in digital forensics and how it is maintained. We’ll also look at the chain of custody process...