Sony Playstation Network Security Breach

Have you heard about the Sony Playstation Network Breach? Beware if you use the Playstation Network.  News on the internet also mentions using Digital Forensics (tools / experts) in the investigations.  Have a read here : Playstation Network Woes...

Also here is the latest from our internet_bad_stuff research:

Weird, the attacks & binaries trends don't match.  Any takers?

Here is another one on the geolocation of the source of attacks:

Results are not too surprising or is it?

New Semester... a new beginning

A new semester is starting, it will be a new beginning especially with the start of a new diploma. We are thinking how to make our course exciting, relevant and all the good things.  One thing we want to try is to make this a digital playground for DFS-ians... I know its hard to play in blog... but let's start by putting in fun and interesting stuff.  The stuff may not be directly related to digital forensics but always (hopfully) interesting. Here is something that interest many...
                                                     

If you have never wondered about all the computers that make up facebook.  Now is the time, look here: facebook datacentre.


Another fun thing we are doing now (yes, the graph is abit outdated, we are always on the look out for reliable help) is coasting through internet looking for potential bad stuff. Here are some statistics that we have gathered so far...



Nearly 700 unique malicious downloads with 2500++ attack attempts (us being attacked, what were you thinking?) in a week... its a scary world out there.


Till next time, 
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