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      Thursday, December 04 2008 @ 01:06 PM CST

This One Goes Out To All You Frequent Fliers...

Friday, November 14 2008 @ 04:58 PM CST Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 


General NewsBeen traveling a lot lately - started as a Principal Consultant with MANDIANT about a month ago & I just hit Premier Executive on United this week.* Here's a special video for all my fellow frequent fliers:



* This doesn't include the ~40k miles I had to fly on other airlines for one reason (Frontier was like 11 bucks DEN->SEA) or another (customer in Abu Dhabi wanted us to fly business class on Etihad). Here's to 1K in 09! 

Literal Music Video - a-ha's "Take On Me"

Tuesday, October 07 2008 @ 12:51 PM CDT Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 


Weird

I'm hoping this is the beginning of a trend.

An awesome trend. 

Extracting Disk Encryption Keys From Volatile Memory

Wednesday, September 24 2008 @ 09:36 AM CDT Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 


Forensics & IRInteresting work just published from CMU Cert:

This paper addresses the shortcomings of the traditional forensic response methodology with respect to disk encryption. It highlights the virtues of volatile memory analysis by demonstrating how key material and passphrases can be extracted from volatile memory to facilitate the analysis of encrypted media in a forensically sound manner. A proof of concept tool capable of decryting an encrypted disk image using a volatile memory dump is included to demonstrate the practicality of the outlined techniques.
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Fallout 3

Friday, September 19 2008 @ 11:38 AM CDT Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 


Games

Awesome new Fallout 3 stuff released today, including a quick clip of a firefight in and around the ruins of the capitol building in DC.

www.prepareforthefuture.com

Tag: fallout xbox 360 xbox360 

UNIX and Linux Forensic Analysis is out

Thursday, July 10 2008 @ 12:20 PM CDT Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 


Forensics & IR

The book I co-authored is available now. read more

PTK Beta Released

Thursday, June 05 2008 @ 12:46 PM CDT Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 


Forensics & IRThe open beta for PTK started a few days ago.

You can fetch it up at DFLabs.

Description from the site:

"PTK is an alternative advanced interface for the suite TSK (The Sleuth Kit). PTK was developed from scratch and besides providing the functions already present in Autopsy Forensic Browser it implements numerous new features essential during forensic activity. PTK is not just a new graphic and highly professional interface based on Ajax technology but offers a great deal of features like analysis, search and management of complex cases of digital investigation."  read more

Argus 3.0 released

Tuesday, May 20 2008 @ 10:23 AM CDT Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 


Forensics & IRThis actually happened over a month ago, but I managed to not notice until now, thanks to a near absence of downtime.

Argus 3.0 release announcement

If you're not aware of Argus, it's an excellent tool to use during both proactive and reactive network monitoring. I use it primarily in a response capacity - to turn packet captures into useful information very quickly.

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News from my old stomping grounds

Monday, May 19 2008 @ 02:45 PM CDT Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 


WeirdBeen a while since I read ValleyWag... probably since I left Google. I'm at IBM now, though, and VW routinely makes fun of our ridiculous Second Life initiatives (seriously, how many furries are buying iSeries?*) so I decided I should start keeping up again. I run across this gem:

Orkut inventor may be best argument against H-1B visas yet

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New Nine Inch Nails album. Already. And it's free.

Monday, May 05 2008 @ 10:46 PM CDT Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 


General NewsLooks like Trent may actually just be in this for the music. read more

Zombie Strippers

Friday, April 25 2008 @ 11:21 AM CDT Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 


ZombiesZombie Strippers

wow

wow just wow

It looks like it might have too high of a budget to be sucky enough to be enjoyable

I call it the "Snakes On A Plane" effect.

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