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Five free ways to improve your security
Peer Review (Photo credit: AJC1) We’re in recession, lest we forget – it isn’t like the press is going to let it slip from our minds – so money in a tight field is getting tighter. However, even for...
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Elgato game capture HD – A quick review …
It’s been a bit of a perfect storm – the step up in blogging, my son’s birthday request and a review in the times – all within a few weeks of each other – has led me to buy an Elgato game capture HD. I...
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How to Automate Twitter – a bit at least !
Perl (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’ve been trying to push up the readership of the blog here ( and get some people to stick around a bit, subscribe, follow on twitter etc. ) I’m not a Facebooker – I do...
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VirtualBox Install on Mac OS X
I thought that I’d give this a go – this is a very short run through of an install of VirtualBox on Mac OS X. Comments on production issues are very welcome, I’d like to improve these to the point of...
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Raspberry Pi Toybox
Roman depiction of the Tiber as a river-god (Tiberinus) with cornucopia at the Campidoglio, Rome. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I must admit a certain love for the Raspberry Pi – we have two in the house...
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Raspberry Pi Toybox – The bits …
English: The Castel Sant’Angelo looms in the background from a bridge overlooking the Tiber River in Rome, Italy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Well, it has all arrived ( Thank You Amazon ! ) and so here,...
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Windows XP – Looming End of Life (E0L) – What are the risks ?
As I’m fairly sure that you may have gathered, Windows XP is going to go end of life very, very soon. 8th April this year (2014) in fact. This is proving to be a little bit of an issue for more than...
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MacOS X and split
Split, on Mac OS X, doesn’t have the -d option to number files. This is a right royal pain when you are splitting up a dd image as I couldn’t figure out how to get either XWays Forensics or EnCase to...
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Building a Linux based Digital Forensic workflow – Introduction
For the whole time that I’ve been doing Digital Forensics, I’ve been using Windows for it. This seriously irks me ! I’ve been in love with open source / free software since I installed my first Linux...
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Running your own DNS server (Part 1)
Somewhere over time I seem to have acquired 82 ( yes, eighty-two ) domain names, a small number have been bought on behalf of other people ( relatives, friends & children ) – some have been bought...
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Running your own DNS server (Part 2)
Right, you need to read part one in order for this (a) to make sense or (b) to work – so if you haven’t done that already – Go ! Looking at a domain … So, right now you have a working domain name...
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Background Noise on the Internet
Not too long ago there was a reasonable amount of press ( in the IT world anyhoo, meatspace pretty much ignored it ) regarding attacks against the SSh protocol. The “SShPsychos” group has been...
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Building a Linux based Digital Forensic Workflow – Part 2 – OS & Communications
The overall title of this series has been based around the “Digital Forensic Workflow” – I mean this in it’s broadest sense. This isn’t just about the imaging / examination side of things – but the...
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Resurrection
I can’t stand to see an old computer be thrown out. A fact that means that I’ve far too much clutter and plenty of things that are collecting dust in some corner or another. A quick mental audit throws...
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