Author: Pavel Gladyshev

  • Introduction to CS and IT for Digital Forensics Professionals

    Introduction to CS and IT for Digital Forensics Professionals

    Project LEADER concludes its 8-week training course: Foundations of Computer Science& Info Technology. Covering aspects of forensic analysis of digital devices to enhance #DigitalForensics #Capabilities Our thanks to instructors @ucddublin & our INTERPOL MC participants. pic.twitter.com/Apo0vrNdZJ — INTERPOL Training (@INTERPOL_CBT) August 27, 2021 I am delighted to say that we (DigitalFIRE) have just completed a…

  • Dr. Pavel Gladyshev speaks about digital forensics on Channel News Asia

    Dr. Pavel Gladyshev speaks about digital forensics on Channel News Asia

    Last week DFIRE participated in Inteprol World 2019 in Singapore. It was a great event with a truly global reach focusing on connecting international police forces for a safe World, and promoting enchanted cooperation between law enforcement, academia, and private sector.  Unlike the previous Interpol World 2017, the bulk of discussion was organised into so-called…

  • DFIRE Forensic Prolog

    DFIRE Forensic Prolog

    Introduction Digital forensic examiners rely on software tools to analyze digital evidence and answer investigative questions. Although the ability to create custom software is not required in every investigation, it is important to be able to automate repetitive processing tasks. A variety of general-purpose programming languages is used for that purpose ranging from C and Bash scripting,…

  • Dr. Pavel Gladyshev speaks about digital forensics on RTE Prime Time

    Dr. Pavel Gladyshev speaks about digital forensics on RTE Prime Time

    Digital forensic evidence played a vital role in the recent conviction of Graham Dwyer for the murder of Elaine O’Hara. Detectives and staff of An Garda Siochana and its Cyber Crime Investigation Unit played a vital role in the investigation. Many of them have studied digital forensics and cybercrime investigation at University College Dublin. Dr.…

  • Lectures in Mathematics for Digital Forensic Researchers

    Lectures in Mathematics for Digital Forensic Researchers

    Digital forensics is a very practical discipline that addresses the needs of every day investigations. Whether deleted data needs to be recovered or the suspect’s  photographs need to be attributed to the suspect’s photo camera – forensic analyst has to do whatever it takes to advance the investigation. There is rarely any time to think…

  • Some Pitfalls of Interpreting Forensic Artifacts in Windows Registry

    This post is on behalf of one of our students, Ms. Jacky Fox. Given below is the archive that contains her MSc dissertation and the Bash scripts she wrote to extract and correlate Windows registry artifacts. During her research she discovered that recent versions of Microsoft Windows introduced subtle changes to forensic interpretation of Windows…

  • InfoSecurity Russia 2012: Digital Forensics, Cloud Computing, Future of Cybercrime Investigation

    InfoSecurity Russia 2012: Digital Forensics, Cloud Computing, Future of Cybercrime Investigation

    Last week Joshua and I gave invited talk about digital forensics at InfoSecurity Russia 2012. The slides of the talk are here: Slides of DigitalFIRE Talk at InfoSecurity Russia 2012 Our talk explored the issues of digital forensics in the cloud environment. The first part of the talk introduced the concepts of cyber crime investigations and the challenges…