It's the fifth year for Bloomsburg University's BloomCON Forensics and Cybersecurity Conference since last year's got postponed due to the pandemic. This year they pivoted to a virtual one like most others out there. The Forensics CTF competition was 10 questions and consisted of a single hard drive image and I'm... [Read More]

In an effort to get more content out to the masses on my Forensics StartMe page, I've decided to do periodic update posts on what new content has been added. I have no insight in how many hits the site gets so if you get use out of it let... [Read More]

Like many other forensic tool vendors in the past year, we got another capture the flag competition. This one was from Belkasoft in correlation with their BelkaDay Europe virtual conference. The format was a bit different than I'm used to but enjoyed it nonetheless. There were 11 questions total, 3... [Read More]

It's that time of year again (no not March Madness), the nominations for the 2021 Forensic 4Cast awards are live. https://forms.gle/r7XwVwdoUFR4We4X9Here are who and what I'm nominating this year:DFIR Commercial Tool of the YearMagnet AXIOM continues to be my go-to tool for all things computer and mobile related forensics wise. I... [Read More]

One of the useful features Chrome has had for a long is text prediction. When you start to search for something Google attempts to predict what you are looking for. This works for not only keywords but also for previous URLs that you may have visited.Figure 1: Sample Google search... [Read More]