#digital-forensics

#digital-forensics

When the library system's IT department detected suspicious activity on one of the library's servers Thursday morning, staff immediately "turned off the server in the middle of this happening," as well as shut down all remote access to the library's computer systems, library director Todd Dunkelberg said. "That stopped all activity," Dunkelberg said Friday about the cyberattack, which was first reported by KTVZ, as well as Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Walshe is standing trial for allegedly killing his wife, Ana, on New Year's Day 2023. Prosecutors say he dismembered her body and dumped her remains in dumpsters around the region, including one near his mother's home. Investigators never found her body. In the days after her disappearance, they say Walshe repeatedly misled police as searches stretched from the couple's Cohasset neighborhood to Washington, D.C., where Ana worked.

Memory forensics is the acquisition and analysis of a system's random access memory (RAM). It provides visibility into transient information that is otherwise absent from persistent storage. This includes kernel structures, process execution trees, loaded DLLs, active network sockets, in-memory registry hives, and injected code segments. Over the years, memory forensics has become a major plank of cybersecurity research, becoming crucial for functions such as discovering stealthy malware like or other sophisticated cyber attacks.

Details have emerged of a troubling case in which a basic engineering mistake wrecked a digital evidence investigation and led to wrongful accusations. An open judgment [PDF] published by the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which is responsible for investigating claims of British authorities illegally abusing their powers during the course of an investigation, detailed the impact on three people wrongly accused of child sex offences.

Technical experts are focusing on messages from around the time the boy disappeared

Captain Samuel White approved a search of Bartels' gear, leading to revelations of illegal activities including possession of CSAM and buying it while stationed at Guantanamo.

The discussions must be grounded in real-world cyber risk scenarios if we're to future-proof UK critical infrastructure.