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Just prior to hitting the pillows, a traceback arrived for my inspection from the PHP++ blog.
Fish (the author of the said blog) reports that the GST stroke again, this time defacing a “I don’t know where the hell they found that”-type website, as reported in the following blog post and left a message in both [...]
DarkSYN @ November 30, 2008
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Just a couple of thoughts, as I’m resting after a long long time working on my ongoing PhD and the new CSI module I’m taking…
The “Get Safe Online” (http://www.getsafeonline.com) week-long campaign by the British government began this week…
The page (and campaign) itself supposedly deals with some rather interesting questions by providing rather simplified (but ones [...]
DarkSYN @ November 18, 2008
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After a couple of insane weeks filled with a Progression Report to be delivered, loads of lecturing work and a nice bout of flu that has me sitting somewhat sleepless on the keyboard this lovely Friday morning, GrayHat Forensics is back.
Today’s topic? Uberdatabases: State/Country-wide government databases storing phonecall-related information (and conversations), texts, e-mail, IM messages, [...]
DarkSYN @ October 10, 2008
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It may surprise the audience how someone who’s forehead-deep in writing their research report under a tight deadline can find the time to keep an ear out on the whispers of the underground community, but interesting things do come out of there.
Note: I may be a Digital Forensic researcher, but I am ALSO a Network [...]
DarkSYN @ September 13, 2008
Preamble: In case any of you were wondering about the lack of further postings for some time now…No, I did not cancel the blog. I was merely on a 3-week holiday in Greece, after a rough couple of weeks of PhD-related work.
So, summer holidays: Sun, Sea, other-things-beginning-with-the-S-letter and some interesting bits of news from Greece.
For [...]
DarkSYN @ August 29, 2008
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Some of those of you who know me would know I’d submitted a presentation to the British Society of Criminology 2008 conference. Those of you who don’t know it, well now you do. In truth, I actually went to both the BSC2008 and the PhD conference scheduled for the day preceding the start of the [...]
DarkSYN @ July 14, 2008
It began with a PhD research student teaching a module on Computer Forensics. Studying Casey under the light of a train from Sunderland to Newcastle and back, remembering the ways of the security community, preparing to teach a class of undergraduates for the first time. A Network Security PhD research student teaching Digital Forensics.
It continued [...]
DarkSYN @ July 6, 2008