Category: Hardware

  • Open Forensic Devices

    Open Forensic Devices

    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…

  • Wearable technology: Big companies get involved in Big Brother-style monitoring of staff

    Wearable technology: Big companies get involved in Big Brother-style monitoring of staff

      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…

  • Reverse engineering a CCTV system, a case study

    Reverse engineering a CCTV system, a case study

    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…