The game of CLUE

The game of CLUE

 In digital forensics you need to know who was involved so you can begin your data collection. Best to collect every piece of hardware you can, this will allow you to start your acquisition of data from each device. When you’re at the kitchen table, keep your cards close to your chest, but in the digital world, that means ensuring you preserve the integrity of your evidence.

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MEO – 8,227 breached accounts

In early 2023, a corpus of data sourced from the New Zealand based face mask companyMEO was discovered. Dating back to December 2020, the data contained over 8k customer records including names, addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 Wordpress hashes. MEO did not respond to multiple attempts to report the breach.

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Terravision – 2,075,625 breached accounts

In February 2023, the European airport transfers service Terravision suffered a data breach. The breach exposed over 2M records of customer data including names, phone numbers, email addresses, salted password hashes and in some cases, date of birth and country of origin. Terravision did not respond to multiple attempts by individuals period over a period of months to report the incident.

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firewall

What is a firewall? A firewall is a network security device that prevents unauthorized access to a network. It inspects […]

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Keeping your boat afloat

Keeping your boat afloat

If your actions lead to steps such as mitigating damage, protecting data loss, or re-establishing operations…. welcome to incident response. I can pass along several courses that will fill that knowledge gap. The digital forensic sleuth in you may lead down a path where when you kick off the investigation role, you are able to find the one bird that disrupted the wave.  A little tip, remember there can be more than one bird….and more than one wave. Also, as the waves roll towards you, consider that an ocean wave may have travelled halfway around the world.

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