FTK 4, MPE+, and AD Triage – Upcoming Interview

On Monday I am being joined by Lee Reiber and Brian Karney of AccessData. We will be discussing FTK version 4, the latest version of Mobile Phone Examiner Plus (MPE+) and their newest product AD Triage.

As with our time with Guidance I’m interested to hear any questions you may have about these products.

If you have question please post them as comments here, post to Twitter (@4cast), or post them on either the Forensic 4cast Facebook page or LinkedIn Group. I’ll try to ask as many as I can.

Get in your nominations!

It may have escaped the attention of some but the closing date for your nominations to the Forensic 4cast Awards is May 1st 2011. This means that you have less that you have 26 days to post your nominations.

This year the Forensic 4cast Awards promises to be the biggest and best yet.

Guidance have made concerted efforts to get involved and have started posting on Twitter and Facebook about the awards in order to persuade their users to nominate and vote.

The last thing I want is the same thing that happened last year when I received email after email asking why they hadn’t won or even been nominated for their specialist category. So please save me the pain of having to respond to these mountains of emails and post your nominations today!

The Forensic 4cast Awards – because even geeks deserve recognition.

EnCase Forensic 7

I hope that, by now, everyone realised that my post yesterday was for April Fools and that I have no intention of quitting Forensic 4cast or becoming a professional wrestler.

The good news is that next Sunday I’m going to be recording a special episode of Forensic 4cast with two people from Guidance Software. They are going to be talking about EnCase Forensic version 7.

You may have seen some of the publicity surrounding the new version of Guidance’s flagship product or maybe even been to an event where it was demoed. This episode will hopefully help us to find out a little more about the new software.

Do you have any questions that you want to ask the Guidance guys about the upcoming release? There are no guarantees that I will ask all of your questions, or if they’ll answer them, but there’s no harm in trying is there? If  you have a question please either comment here, post them on the 4cast Facebook page, or message @4cast on Twitter.

Goodbye

 

Forensic 4cast 2010 Statistical Report

I was looking at the website stats the other day and thought that there may be some people out there that would find the stats interesting so I’m publishing them for your review. I’m not a statistician by any means so if anyone has any insight as to what they get from these please let me know in the comments.

1) This table shows the total bandwidth usage per month with the grand total at the bottom.

By Month
	Hits	Bandwidth (GB)
Jan-10	106473	61.88
Feb-10	90126	35.72
Mar-10	102493	41.72
Apr-10	156418	63.6
May-10	169595	88.22
Jun-10	174941	105.95
Jul-10	198779	77.78
Aug-10	172236	73.03
Sep-10	154859	43.52
Oct-10	162438	29.87
Nov-10	170863	57.61
Dec-10	160938	65.44
TOTAL	1820159	744.34

 

744.34 GB Total bandwidth used in 2010. I was quite impressed with that.

2) This table shows the daily averages of how much bandwidth is used.

Daily Averages
	Hits	Bandwidth (GB)
Mon	5420.86	2.01
Tue	5737.21	2.588
Wed	5644.56	2.623
Thu	5472.88	2.219
Fri	4838.89	1.706
Sat	3731.08	1.549
Sun	4064.52	1.716

 

3) This table shows the top ten total bandwidth consumed by country

Top 10 Countries
Country	Bandwidth (GB)
United States	502.08
Great Britain	80.72
Canada	37.19
Australia	18.05
Germany	14.95
Netherlands	6.76
Sweden	6.57
Japan	6.03
Austria	2.72
China	2.27

 

4) This table shows the 20 most popular podcast episodes

Top 20 Podcast Episodes
Episode	Downloads
26 – Make Mine a DECAF	3083
20 – Not Another ‘Kitty Porn’ Joke!	2854
Conversation with Rob Lee	2683
21 – Curveball to the Forensic Field	2577
19 – Bullet Holes and Cat Burglars	2520
28 – Xerox This!	2410
Forensic 4cast Awards – Announcement	2375
25 – The Little iPhone Worm that Could	2300
18 – Standing Room Only	2252
23 – The Butt of Everyone’s Jokes	2209
17 – Free is not Free	2132
32 – The Mecca for Digital Forensicators	2092
27 – When RIAA Rules the World	2082
22 – Captain Forensics vs. Jonathan Parker	1872
29 – #robleeisagiant	1780
24 – No Good Crying Over Spilled COFEE	1773
31 – They try to send me off to DC but I say R-M-O	1766
30 – Amy Winehouse is no Forensic Guru	1736
16 – Tool	1220
15 – Vacation’s Over	1176

 

5) This table shows the top twenty posts that are not podcasts

Top 20 Other Content
Title	Views/Downloads
Into the Shadow Presentation	2530
Forensic 4cast Awards 2010 Voting is Open	1885
Testing Acquisition Software	1211
How to do the Worst Job Possible	1154
Testing Acquisition Hardware Part 1	1109
Forensic 4cast Awards – Results #forensicsummit	833
Extreme Hex Jumping	832
The Risk of Rooting	779
Getting into Digital Forensics in the UK	764
Into the Shadows	761
Sometimes I Wonder	752
Forensic 4cast Live Rerun	671
Shadow Analyser Article by the Register	649
Where are my Podcasts?	596
Future of Forensic 4cast	544
Forensic 4cast Awards 2010	532
Forensic 4cast Live	527
Lessons From Data Recovery Part 1 (repost)	506
Sneak Peak at the Forensic 4cast Awards	478
Sans Forensic Summit	475

 

6) This table shows the top 10 referring search engines

Top Ten Search Engine Referrers
Search Engine	Referrals
Google	8491
Yahoo!	4684
Google (Images)	186
Yandex	92
Microsoft Windows Live	41
Microsoft MSN Search	18
Baidu	13
AOL	10
Ask	7
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	5

 

7) This table shows the top 20 referrers that are not search engines

Top Referrers (Not Search Engines)
Referrer	Referrals
http://www.digital-detective.co.uk	4158
http://www.forensicfocus.com	1170
http://twitter.com	1116
http://computer-forensics.sans.org	422
http://www.irongeek.com	213
http://youdao.com	203
http://www.computer-forensics.co.uk	166
http://borssnack.di.se	164
http://www.bing.com	144
http://ericjhuber.blogspot.com	121
http://www.facebook.com	115
http://www.macosxforensics.com	112
http://longurl.org	102
http://viaforensics.com	100
http://www.binint.com	78
http://www.digitalforensicsmagazine.com	67
http://twitturls.com	65
http://windowsir.blogspot.com	60
http://iconfactory.com/twitterrific	55
http://www.macosxforensics.com	50
http://aimtrust.com	44
http://www.podfeed.net	41
http://samouprav.ru	26
http://www.irongeek.com	25
http://happyasamonkey.wordpress.com	25
http://www.pryaniki.org	23
http://www.energetic-news.ru	23
http://www.firstlink.ru	22
http://theinvestblog.com	20
http://www.znaki-textile.ru	20

 
This table shows the top 10 search terms used to find the website

Top 10 Search Terms
Term	Number
forensic 4cast	841
forensic4cast	276
encase portable	249
forensic 4 cast	94
forensic podcast	62
facebook forensics	66
encase pricing	61
forensics 4cast	58
mac forensics	7
android forensic toolkit	5

Forensic 4cast Awards 2011 – Nominations are Open

***NOTE*** You can nominate as many times as you want, even in the same category if you wish.

That time of year is upon us once again. It is awards season and, as such, the nominations for the 2011 Forensic 4cast Awards are now open.

We’ve made a couple of changes this year that will, hopefully, make the whole process fairer to everyone involved. We not only ask for who you want to nominate but we also want to know why. When filling out your nominations please provide a reason for the nomination and bear in mind that the awards will only be given for work from the last year.

We’ve also added a couple more categories, namely “Best Law Enforcement/Military/Government Forensic Team” and “Best Civilian Forensic Team”. This brings the total number of awards to fourteen.

The nominations will remain open for a few months and voting will only be open for a shorter period of time leading up to the awards ceremony.

Details about the awards ceremony will be published in due course but, in the mean time, have fun nominating.

Forensic 4cast Mini-Shows

Happy new year everyone. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and has made some good resolutions for the coming year (and. moreover, that you have not yet broken them).

We, at Forensic 4cast, like to come up with fresh ideas once in a while to stop the old show getting stale. Some of these ideas are widely heralded as brilliant (the Forensic 4cast Awards for example), others don’t get the kind of backing we’d like and they fall by the wayside (may the forum rest in peace). The latest of these ideas came to me a few days ago. I’ve spent time thinking about it and came to the conclusion ‘Why not?’

Each episode of Forensic 4cast gets, on average, 1500 downloads per month. Its not a huge number but it is a good start. Sadly, due to family and other commitments, I’m not in a position to record and edit a new episode of 4cast more than once per month. However, I do have a near-unlimited amount of storage and bandwidth for others in the forensic field to use. Do you have something to say? Do you have a microphone? Why not record something and send it my way. If its good, we’ll put it in the feed for everyone to download and listen.

The kinds of things that I’m looking for are:

• product reviews
• cheap investigation methods and software
• forensic news
• research results
• new techniques
• interviews

Do not think that, just because your idea does not fit into any of the items listed that I won’t consider your input. Far from it.

I don’t want to get bogged down with too much so I kindly ask that any participants limit these mini-episodes to 5-10 minutes in size. They can be video or audio, just make sure that they are in a widely used format such as mp4 for video and mp3 for audio.

If you are interested please let me know either in the comments, or by any of the methods of communication set out in our ‘Contact Us’ page.

Forensic 4cast Awards 2011 – Your Thoughts

It is becoming more apparent to me that the Forensic 4cast Awards are becoming a huge deal. This thing seems to be snowballing into something huge. I ran a search for “forensic 4cast awards” today and was surprised to see many references from all over the world. Cellebrite even did a press release on winning two years running!

It is funny to me to see what has happened over the last two years. We started with Simon and I standing in front of a camera and, within a year, had moved to SANS presenting the awards before a live audience. The question is where do we go from here?

I’ve had a few people talking to me about different things such as doing an awards ceremony in the UK just for us Brits, and one in the USA for everyone, down to the format of the awards ceremony, and so forth.

I’ve always said that these are not my awards, they belong to the community, all I do is to provide a platform for them to take place. That being said I want to know your thoughts on next year’s event. Where, when, how, who, etc. I’m willing to listen to everything and anything that you might suggest. Be warned, however, if you have a good idea I might ask you to help implement it.

Where are my podcasts?!?!

A couple of weeks ago I was able to poke my head in at the SANS EU Forensic Summit in London. After giving a presentation (and before rushing off back home) I was able to talk to a few people in the field. During one such conversation I was asked why I’d stopped doing Forensic 4cast. Apparently they had heard that I’d given up on it and decided that it wasn’t worth my time. I don’t know where this came from but to paraphrase Mark Twain:

Rumours of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.

I love Forensic 4cast. I have invested to much time, energy, and money into this project and I will continue to produce content. The problem right now is that I have a lot going on in my personal and work life that means I don’t have a great deal of time available to concentrate on recording or writing.

From the time that we moved house things have been very complicated. We were told that our child would be born so premature that all we could do would be to watch her die, I’ve had to run around and do household chores because my wife has been on bed rest between working and running her to the hospital, etc.

Thankfully the baby was born safely at 32 weeks but had to be in hospital for around a month before coming home. Since then she has been re-admitted due to breathing complications. Thankfully she is home once more. But I’m sure you can see why I’ve been a little preoccupied lately…

Throw into the mix that I was experiencing suspected heart problems and that we’re working hard to get Shadow Analyser out and my life seems a little overloaded doesn’t it?

There is a lot more too but I don’t want to bore everyone with the details.

In short… I’m busy and I’m sorry that I’ve not been podcasting lately. We’ll be back soon. What I take from all of this is that it must be good if people are wanting more episodes

Thanks for your continued support. It is very much appreciated.

Forensic 4cast Live – Rerun

We did it! The first live broadcast of Forensic 4cast went out earlier today. In case you missed it (whether by accident or by design) you can watch it below. If you’ve already seen it once and want to watch it again I have the number of a really good therapist…

Watch live video from Forensic 4cast on Justin.tv

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