Digital Forensics
This section tracks my journey into the world of digital forensics — where the smallest traces often tell the biggest stories.
From memory analysis to file carving and beyond, I’m building the skills needed to investigate, interpret, and understand incidents at a deeper level.
Grab a hex editor. It’s about to get binary. 🧠
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Forensics Challenge Day Three: Carving & Imaging
Posted on 22 mins
We dive into forensic imaging, the art of carving, and tools like dd, Foremost, and Scalpel—essential skills for data recovery and deleted file analysis.
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Forensics Challenge Day Two - Sleuth Kit Deep Dive
Posted on 34 mins
On day two of my forensics challenge, I dive deep into Sleuth Kit’s layered toolset. From volumes to inodes, metadata, deleted files, timelines, and journals — I explore the core forensic workflows and decode a real ext4 image step by step.
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Digital Forensics Challenge: Basics, Mounting & Analyzing Disk Images (Day 1)
Posted on 18 mins
In this introductory forensics lab, we explore how to mount and examine disk images using loop devices, losetup, SleuthKit tools, and file system inspection techniques. A hands-on walkthrough for raw, split, and forensic image formats like AFF and EWF.
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Carving Chaos: Building and Breaking Filesystems for Fun and Forensics
Posted on 15 mins
Crafted a Bash-powered forensics playground: build virtual file systems, inject payloads, carve lost files with Foremost & Scalpel — and hit every roadblock worth debugging.
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Why Clean Logs Matter in Forensics — And How to Get Them Right
Posted on 5 mins
In digital forensics, documentation is just as important as discovery. This guide introduces a CLI tool that helps forensic analysts create structured, signed, and legally sound logs — from the first command to the final report.
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Lesson One – What Is Digital Forensics, Really?
Posted on 5 mins
A thoughtful, beginner-friendly introduction to digital forensics: from traces and clues to how we reconstruct the past using data. -
Defensive Security Lecture – What SEC Consult Told Us About Phases of a Cyber Crisis
Posted on 3 mins
Insights from a guest lecture by SEC Consult on how real-world cyber crises unfold, what defines modern threats, and why proper incident response beats courtroom-ready forensics in most cases.