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Internet Explorer is not exactly the most popular search engine, and this new security incident definitively won’t help. According to cyber forensics course specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), new zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in this search engine that makes Windows OS computers vulnerable to file theft attacks. According to the […]
Microsoft has revealed that a group of unknown hackers has perpetrated a data breach in some of the company’s systems; according to cyber forensics course experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), hackers would have compromised the log in credentials of some members of the company’s technical support team, thanks to this, they […]
A ransomware attack forced the shutdown of all the computer operations of the city of Greenville, South Carolina, According to the cyber forensics course experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the attack forced the authorities to shut down most of their servers. Greenville officials, together with professionals from the rest of the U.S., […]
According to cyber forensics course specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) the services of virtual private networks (VPN) provided by some companies are vulnerable to security flaws that could allow an attacker to enter remotely into a company’s internal network. The cybersecurity area of the Department of Homeland Security issued an alert […]
According to cyber forensics course specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), Juniper Networks has launched an unexpected update after discovering that some login credentials had been left on their data centers switches. Juniper Networks is a multinational company dedicated to network and security systems and is considered the main competence of Cisco. […]
The official website of VSDC, one of the most used free video edition and conversion services (with almost 1.5 million visitors per month) has been hacked once again, reported cyber forensics course specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS). According to reports, a group of hackers would have hijacked the VSDC website, replacing […]
Telegram instant messaging service will launch a private beta test of your blockchain, Telegram Open Network (TON), reported cyber forensics course experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS). Features Telegram Open Network is designed to have superior speed and scalability. First of all, this means you can process millions of transactions in seconds. […]
Cyber forensics course specialists reported that a few days ago Julian Assange was expelled from the Embassy of Ecuador in London this morning, after the government of the South American country decided to revoke the asylum it provided to the founder of WikiLeaks. According to specialists of the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) this […]
CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is an Italian GNU/Linux live distribution created as a Digital Forensics project. Currently, the project manager is Nanni Bassetti (Bari – Italy). CAINE offers a complete forensic environment that is organized to integrate existing software tools as software modules and to provide a friendly graphical interface. The main design objectives that CAINE […]
The person who reported the bug was rewarded with $20k USD A cybersecurity researcher discovered and reported a bug on Steam that allowed people to download any game available on the digital platform without paying for it, as reported by digital forensics experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security. Cybersecurity researcher Artem Moskowsky was responsible for […]
Different ways of exploiting the flaw have been widely spread too Out of the thousands of plugins for the jQuery framework, one of the most popular has hosted for at least three years an oversight in the code that remained hidden for the cybersecurity and digital forensics community, despite the availability of tutorials explaining how it could […]
A review of the interesting work of the experts in digital forensics What exactly does a professional in digital forensics do? In general, experts in digital forensics are computer detectives that collect and analyze evidences of computers, networks and any other type of device with data storage capacities. In their role as Sherlock Holmes, the digital forensics experts will investigate the footprints of the […]
It’s more secure to use unique passwords for each service and password managers for each app we use Single logins are a dangerous practice for keeping the security of your social network accounts and other apps. Due to Facebook unique login feature, called Facebook Social Login, whoever has stolen the 50 million of access tokens of this social […]
srum-dump This program will create an excel spreadsheet containing forensics artifacts contained the SRUM (System Resource Utilization Manager) database. The program can be run with no input and it will prompt you for each of the needed arguments. The program requires two inputs. The first is an SRUM database. The SRUM database is usually Windowssystem32sruSRUDB.dat. […]
In this tutorial, we will explore where and what the forensic investigator can find information about the activities of the suspect in their web browser. It’s important to note that this information will vary by operating system and browser. Here we will look briefly at Internet Explorer and go into a bit more depth on […]