Digital Forensics in the Cloud: 5 Hot Skills

When it comes to collecting forensic evidence from cloud providers and determining whether a data breach has occurred, what used to take two weeks now takes a month for Greg Thompson, vice president of enterprise security services at Scotia Bank. “Often we find it is a challenge to get sufficient forensic data from the cloud to prove […]

FREE Dropbox Forensics Tool

Dropbox Reader is a set of Python scripts for forensic investigators. The scripts provide investigators with information about a particular Dropbox user’s account and activities, such as the registration e-mail, Dropbox identifier and most recently changed files. Dropbox Reader was created by Cybermarshal, the computer forensics wing of ATC-NY. Here’s a list and description of […]

Dropbox drops security

Recently, hackers have been in the limelight for breaking into companies’ servers to steal users’ personal information. Yet Dropbox, which provides online storage, needed no help putting its users’ data at risk: the company has admitted that for several hours on Sunday, an update to its code caused a security glitch that allowed people to […]

GridFast.net DDoS Attack

It would appear that CloudAccess.net and their ISP GridFast.net  have been the victim of a targeted Distributed Denial of Service Attack affecting up to and including level 3 routers. CloudAccess.net is a host most commonly known by the JOOMLA content management framework and more so by ‘trial’ users of the JOOMLA content management system via demo.joomla.org/. JOOMLA; […]