Alan Orlikoski has shared a good presentation ‘Using Open Source Tools to Solve New DFIR Challenges’.

PowerShell can help a forensic analyst acquiring data of an incident of a field. You can find PowerShell cheat sheet here. The cheat sheet can help you in your work. Unfortunately, we do not know who is the author of the cheat sheet.

Informal information about the vulnerability of Intel processors leaked in the media. The researchers identified two types of techniques – Meltdown and Specter. Meltdown and Specter use critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware errors allow programs to steal data that is currently being processed on a computer. Meltdown and Specter work on personal computers, mobile devices and in the cloud.

Experts are faced with a huge amount of information that must be processed in a matter of moments. For this specialist to group all kinds of documents the parameters for the part it takes a very long time. To simplify the work of the experts by the German company X-Ways Forensics program was developed.