As most of my posts, this one comes out of frustration while trying to acquire an Android forensic image of a new(er) device. Most of the information I was finding online dealt with older versions of Android running YAFFS or older versions of EXT. In my case, I wanted to [...] Read more »
Building Autopsy 3 on Ubuntu with EXT4 Support
In this post I will show you how to build Brian Carrier’s forensic tool Autopsy 3, which is a frontend for the file system forensic analysis tool Sleuthkit. The current downloadable version does not support the EXT4 file system used in newer Linux operating systems, however there is a development [...] Read more »
Creating Forensic Images of VMware Drives Using dcfldd
This post comes from frustration of trying to to achieve this rather simple task, but not knowing how to go about it. Scenario: I’m doing forensics malware analysis on Cridex, so I ran the malware on a clean VM. I wanted to then create a forensics duplicate of the VM’s [...] Read more »
Analyzing TCP Dumps using Python’s Pandas Module
In this post I will briefly describe how to use the Python library “Pandas” to analyze TCP Dumps; I’ll only be lightly scratching the surface of what Pandas can do. To start off, you’re going to want to install the Pandas module, which can be found here or through the PyPi [...] Read more »
New Website – Soft Launch
Today marks the beggining of the “soft launch” of my revamped website. By “soft launch” I mean that time has been flying by, preventing me from putting a complete working product out anytime this decade. Thus, most of the things I want working are completed, but it is far from [...] Read more »
Better SEO leads to 21% Increase in Search Impressions
It’s been a little over a month since we rolled out the new scoobysworkshop.com website. A major aspect of the redesign was to formalize a strong search engine optimization (SEO) program. The process involved creating quality content, good old fashioned strategic descriptions and a more social friendly sharing environment. The results? [...] Read more »
ScoobysWorkshop.com goes live!
I am very pleased to announce that as of last night, the newly designed Scooby’s Workshop website has gone live. This isn’t to say that the process has been a breeze, it certainly hasn’t! Scooby and I learned a huge lesson on scalability when dealing with several hundred http requests [...] Read more »
Find me on LinkedIn
I have no idea why I’m so slow with these things; people have been urging me to get on LinkedIn since its birth and I’ve just been like, “pfft no thanks!” I hopped on there about two weeks ago to scope it out and fell in love. As a guy [...] Read more »
Career Fair Shenanigans
Over the last day or two I have been preparing for the career fair over at Drexel on Oct. 12th. My old resume was terribly boring and did a poor job at highlighting my past experiences and current academic and professional goals so I did decided to redo it. I’m [...] Read more »
Summer Wrap up
It has been a very fun and enlightening experience working at the Stanford Security Lab this summer. I’ve learned tons of different things, and noted various topics in which I have to become better versed in with security and privacy as a whole. I can only hope that the drive [...] Read more »