James Smith 🇺🇦

Attention Digital Forensics (#DFIR) pro’s and beginners! I made a thing: A whole IR case to work through. It includes: • Disk Images • Memory Images • A Pcap • And more All from the same incident! -And free training on how to solve it! dfirmadness.com/case-001-the-s… Thread...

Meanwhile in San Francisco:

Can’t have an incident if you can’t detect it…

😬😬😬😬 “Microsoft has notified customers that it’s missing more than two weeks of security logs for some of its cloud products, leaving network defenders without critical data for detecting possible intrusions.” techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/mic…

Yup. I’ve been saying this for years. The only thing they may keep around is Android. Maybe.

@killedbygoogle Why would anyone trust any google service for anything important. Google just shuts everything down eventually

@Ell_o_Punk Spoken like a true synthetic life form! I knew it!

@DFIRmadness I know nothing now. Blue pill red pill… I’ll take them both

Why using a VPN is annoying? I have to verify that I am a human so often that I'm starting to question if I am.

@JoeKnowsCyber @DecryptedTech @bettersafetynet Came here to post this. It’s a great way to remember what you need.

@DecryptedTech @bettersafetynet Class Ashes Class Boil Class Clouds Class Dents Class Electrical Class Fat 😁

Non CISSP folks, if you need help remembering what Type D fire extinguishers are for... D == Dent. D type is for putting out metallic fires. I remember it as D == you DONE messed up to be in a situation where metal is the flammable object. Dislike.

@klrgrz Ha. I can’t recall which book did that to me last - but it’s a bummer because it really takes away from the story/book etc.

My audiobook keeps pronouncing Corpsman as Cores Man, instead of Core Man and it’s killing me. Like when they spell out J O C / S OC instead of saying JOCK / SOCK. It’s Veterans Day, do better Mr Audiobook. Do better.

Gone in 61 seconds. The keys were left near the front door.

@bettersafetynet And yes- there always exceptions based on the student etc. And yes there are total bad asses without a single day of college under their belt.

@bettersafetynet Completely agree with your main point. It may be a local thing- but there was a huge difference in skill levels amongst security folks who took compsci vs CyberSec (Compsci w/ better foundation and competence). The field is seemingly starting to level- likely bc your point

Side tweet: As a first gen college grad, I find the computer science vs infosec degrees convs wild. Very early on, I realized that uni is what you put into it. If you treat it like an extended technical cert, it is. If you treat it like a chance to learn critical thinking, it is

Teach your children that not knowing something is not a bad thing, it is an opportunity to learn something. Teach them that making mistake is not failure, it's the first step to understanding.

@dwmetz @trfflhntr Nice! Yeah 4 doesn’t seem too shabby on Linux generally. Some tools are memory hogs and I like to have the extra room…. I am betting that an ESXI server is more effecient? Even 4 on a laptop VM is going to work well enough to get by from my experience.

@trfflhntr @dwmetz Usually 8 gigs for the DFIR VMs. If you think you’re hitting a ram ceiling just take a look at Resource Monitor or HTOP and go from there is my advice.

Okay, who did this? nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CV…

@SYSTEMCAWL @cyb3rops Is there a difference? Haha

@cyb3rops It either has to be a troll or JD1 lmao

Did you know that it's actually possible for you to say, “I don't know enough about this to have an opinion.”

Do not use your energy to worry. Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others.

@Ell_o_Punk Before anyone grabs a pitchfork- I said I try and say “folks”. 🙂🙃 I have years of teaching experience, with a large spectrum of students… rainbow… military… mid westerners… big city folks… no issues with offending folks.🙂 Folks that say “guys” aren’t “out to get ‘em”.

@Ell_o_Punk I try and say “folks” as best as I can… but unwiring 40 years of gender-neutral-intended “dude” and “guys” is tough. Reasonable people understand, don’t care, or give grace. Those who make a big todo when someone clearly isn’t being a dick, or misgendering etc. are lame.

I have gotten to use to saying “guys” as gender neutral. I never thought I would keep encouraging my brain to say “y’all “ I’ll get it eventually.