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A Forensics Blog hosted on Google AppEngine.

Tom Brander 2009-01-28

Updated Site, Search works!

Well with a lot of help the site is now updated with a number of new features, and now I can post long blog posts. As to whether I should post long ones that may be another argument!

Well somehow, and I'm not exactly sure how the search has started to work, just as I had about given up. someone in the Google clouds kicked something, as I have made no changes for some time now!

There are a number of other things to attend to other than this blog, and then I also plan to add to the Blog, both features and writing, but there may be some wait as I handle a few other things. Further I intend to update my documentation of The Bloog process on My Tech site.

Tom Brander 2009-01-21

Learning Computer Forensics

I've been in computers about since they were invented. I've worked as a computer "operator" , programmer and most every other role there is up to Head of Information Systems at two major banks. So forensics is simply a chance to fill in a lot of details I may have previously glossed over and make use of the knowledge in new ways.

I plan to use this blog to document what I learn and how I go about it.

A good friend with similar experience to mine suggested the following 4 books as a primer in the overall field. I've read the first and am working on the second. The links below take you to Amazon with reviews.

1. Computer Forensics, Incident Response Essentials by Warren G. Kruse II and JayG. Heiser. isbn 0-201-70719-5 copyright 2002

2. EnCE, The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, by Steve Bunting, isbn 978-0-470--18145-4 copyright 2008

3. File System Forensic Analysis br Brian Carrier, isbn 0-321-26817-2, copyright 2005

4. Windows Forensic Analysis by Harlan Carvey, isbn 978-1-59749-156-3 copyright 2007

At this point I'm not yet ready to provide useful commentary but it will come.

Tom Brander 2009-01-19

Mail, contact me and comments now working!

It turns out that the mail address in the code file was case sensitive, it wants all lower case now it works! It is always those small details! There are of course other things to check out and fix but it looks like the bulk of the framework is now working! Thanks to the great people on the net who produced this and then helped me get it started. I'm documenting that part over at http://tombrander.wordpress.com for those who are interested in doing the same.

3 Tom Brander 2009-01-19

Just figured out that contact me and comments are not working right

Just tested the contact me form and the comments capability, neither is working right yet.. I'm working on it. It is probably some dumb issue I have overlooked.

3 Tom Brander 2009-01-19

This is my first post on the live site on App engine

This blog is hosted on App engine a free service from Google I have very slightly customized the Bloog Blog that is available from the links located elsewhere on this site. I also added my "Forensics Shared items feed from Google reader over there on the right>>>>>

I have a bunch more work to do but now at least the platform is working and I have some idea of how to do a few things with it!

All In all a pretty amazing learning experiance. For now I'm gonna relax but I'll document the rest shortly! In case someone else is curious.

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