Archive for the ‘ Forensics ’ Category
A recent report showed that in an analysis of 32 million passwords, 5 of the top 10 passwords were a sequence of numbers from 1 to 9 (i.e., “123456″, “12345″, “123456789″, etc.). Furthermore, studies showed that nearly half of all passwords are considered “weak” or “trivial” by most password systems (in other words, easy to [ READ MORE ]
I had the pleasure of seeing the film “Up in the Air” last night (very good film, by the way) and it got me thinking about how companies need to follow the proper procedures when laying off employees. That’s where I come in… Earlier this year I was working on a Computer Forensics case [ READ MORE ]
Hi everybody. I just wanted to announce that my team “Barely Legal” recently finished First Place in the Civilian category (5th overall) at the 2009 DC3 Digital Forensics Challenge. This competition, conducted by the US Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, had over 1150 entries from 49 states and 30 countries, and is [ READ MORE ]