RFC – Digital Forensics within IaaS Environments

Request for comments – I would be interested in knowing your thoughts and opinions on the topic of “Digital Forensics within Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Environments. For my sins I have chosen this as the subject for my dissertation and although I could happily write thousands upon thousands of words (Plenty of practice writing forensic reports…) of […]

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 […]

Amazon cloud used to mount Sony PSN attack – what a surprise….

The hackers who breached the security of Sony’s PlayStation network and gained access to sensitive data for 77 million subscribers used Amazon’s web services cloud to launch the attack, Bloomberg News reported. The attackers rented a server from Amazon’s EC2 service and penetrated the popular network from there, the news outlet said, citing an unnamed […]