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December 11, 2019

Digital Forensic Applications in a Korean Medical Dispute Investigation
In medical malpractice, medical records are only evidence for proving evidence. If it can be confirm that the electronic medical records are manipulated by digital forensic application, medical dispute investigation can be concluded rapidly. So, to apply digital forensic system in the investigation, we need to build institutional plan.
December 09, 2019

VScode Cheat Sheet for Beginners
I recently had some time to organize my VScode extensions and wanted to share my settings and shortcuts I find very useful.
December 06, 2019

UNODA and Cybersecurity Tech Accord Apps 4 Digital Peace Contest
21st century challenges need 21st century solutions, especially when it comes to creating a safer and a more secure online world. The global ICT environment is facing a dramatic increase in the malicious use of ICTs by State and non-State actors and may harm international peace and security. It is clear that bringing greater security and stability to cyberspace will require new and different ideas compared to what has worked in other domains of conflict, and collaboration across disciplines.
December 06, 2019

4th DIRC Digital Forensic Research Seminar
DIRC is an Industry-University Cooperation Research Center of Legal Informatics and Forensic Science (LIFS) Institute at Hallym University and HM Company.
December 05, 2019

How to Mitigate Social Engineering attacks A general cybersecurity culture
All it takes is clicking on a suspicious link to cost yourself or your company tens of thousands of dollars. In this post we will discuss basic concepts related to social engineering attacks.
December 04, 2019

Discussing Cyber Security and Cyber Crime in the SADC region (Africa)
Southern African Development Community (SADC), which is Southern Africa’s regional body, comprised of 15 Member states these include, Angola, Botswana, Comoros, DRC, Swaziland, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The region has been making initiatives and taking steps to respond to rising cybercrime and threats posed by cybersecurity. SADC’s Organ on Politics, Defense, and Security Cooperation is the responsible Organ to address and coordinate a regional approach towards issues about cybercrime and cybersecurity. Hamadoun Toure, an ex-secretary-general ITU, said: “At the moment, cybercriminals see Africa as a haven to operate illegally with impunity.”
October 31, 2019

URL Extraction after crawling web pages
When crawling webpages, it is prevalent to want to find links on the web page to use as the next candidate for crawling. Below is a python script for extracting URLs from the links returned as search results for the crawler using Naver REST APIs.
September 24, 2019

RAM data significance in Digital Forensics
Last semester, I made memory dump file for analyzing trace remaining after using Tor-browser. However, my boss said it is useless because that file was available to get only when the computer kept power on. After that I thought the RAM data are so volatile that forensic investigators really don’t care about when do investigation. However, today professor mentioned about RAM evidence in class, so I thought it can be important in some cases even if it has volatile properties. And then I found this paper explaining about the significance of volatile data.