Well, its been quite a while since my last post, summer vacation coupled with paternity leave gave me a pleasant absence from the computer screen. But I’m back now, and surprisingly my gold paper got finally been published. The title of the paper is “Mastering the Super Timeline With log2timeline”, and for those that carefully read the title it describes my little pet project of log2timeline and timeline analysis in general.
And I’m about to give a talk at the SANS EU Forensics summit taking place in London on the 8th and 9th of September. Well unless some unnamed volcanoes here in Iceland start to protest again… it will take place then.
I’ve just released a new version of log2timeline, version 0.42. The new version includes two new input modules, one for extracting timestamps from PDF metadata and another one from McAfee anti-virus log files. The new version also includes several bug fixes, the full changelog can be read here. The development focus will be to move the tool to version 0.50, which will introduce a new design of how timestamps and related information is handled within the framework, including a shift to TLN as the standard output format, more details can be found inside the roadmap.
log2timeline will also be included in the upcoming 2.0 release of the SIFT (SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit) workstation, which will be available soon (and yes it is based on Ubuntu now). That way people can enjoy the tool without needing to go through the installation process with all the needed dependencies.
The agenda for the upcoming SANS EU forensics summit is up. I encourage everyone that has the change to attend this summit, there are some greate talks and of course a great change to meet some of the top experts in computer forensics in Europe. And of course a change to meet with me and get me to implement some feature to log2timeline that you always wished was there, but for some odd reason you didn’t send me an e-mail to request it.