Introduction Digital forensic examiners rely on software tools to analyze digital evidence and answer investigative questions. Although the ability to create custom software is not required in every investigation, it is important to be able to automate repetitive processing tasks. A variety of general-purpose programming languages is used for that purpose ranging from C and Bash scripting, […]
The workshop is delivered jointly by the IBM Ethical Hacking team (IBM Ireland) and UCD MSc Digital Investigation and Forensic Computing team on Wednesday 25 January 2017.
Cybercrime has been a growing concern for the past two decades. What used to be the responsibility of specialist national police has become routine work for regional and district police. Unfortunately, funding for law enforcement agencies is not growing as fast as the amount of digital evidence. In this paper, we present a forensic platform […]
Imagine the following scenario: an inexperienced law enforcement officer enters a crime scene and – on finding a USB key on a potential suspect – inserts it into a nearby Windows desktop computer hoping to find some information which may help an on-going investigation. The desktop crashes and all data on the USB key and […]
Digital forensic evidence played a vital role in the recent conviction of Graham Dwyer for the murder of Elaine O’Hara. Detectives and staff of An Garda Siochana and its Cyber Crime Investigation Unit played a vital role in the investigation. Many of them have studied digital forensics and cybercrime investigation at University College Dublin. Dr. […]
A nice article (that our researcher Lee Tobin contributed to) in The Irish Times newspaper on how wearable technology might impact our working lives. Here is an excerpt: ” …Wearable technologies are nothing new. The Google Glass consumer-oriented product allows owners to do many of the things they could do on their tablet with a pair […]
A paper Lee Tobin, Ahmed Shosha and Pavel Gladyshev wrote has just been accepted to the Digital Investigation journal, it details an efficient and time economical way of reverse engineering a piece of hardware (a CCTV system in this case study paper). Title: Reverse engineering a CCTV system, a case study. Abstract: Given a disk image of a […]
Please help DigitalFIRE Labs understand the current state of Mutual Legal Assistance Requests relating to digital evidence, and be entered for a chance to win a FIREBrick write-blocker or an Amazon gift card. The survey on Mutual Legal Assistance Requests Concerning Digital Evidence can be found here: http://goo.gl/gnrJtN This survey has been commissioned by the United Nations Office […]
During cybercrime investigations it’s common to find that a suspect has used technology in a country outside of the territorial jurisdiction of Law Enforcement investigating the case. The suspects themselves may also be located outside of the territory of the investigating group. A country may be able to claim jurisdiction over a suspect or device […]
Abstract The use of automation in digital forensic investigations is not only a technological issue, but also has political and social implications. This work discusses some challenges with the implementation and acceptance of automation in digital forensic investigation, and possible implications for current digital forensic investigators. Current attitudes towards the use of automation in digital forensic investigations are examined, as […]