It’s been a while since my last post, and several things have happened since then…. for instance the release of version 0.52 of log2timeline. I will publish another blog post detailing the difference between version 0.51 and 0.52, such as the use of l2t_process a new tool released alongside log2timeline.
I will also be talking at the upcoming SANS Forensics and Incident Response Summit in Austin, Texas. I’m going to be discussing the release of version 0.60 of log2timeline (stay tuned), which I’m working hard at getting ready (the reason for the few blog posts lately). There will be a lot of great talks at the summit, so I urge you to check it out…
And the nominees for the Forensic4Cast awards has been posted, and for some obscure reason someone decided to nominate log2timeline as the best computer forensics software. I’m honored that the tool got nominated, something that was really a surprise to me, and given the competition (FTK and Encase) the tool is really up against giants in the field.
I just wanted to write a short post about the upcoming SANS European Digital Forensics and and Incident Response Summit that will take place in London on the 19th and 20th of April. I encourage everyone that has the chance to attend since there are some very interesting talks, such as; Jesse Kornblum’s talk about fuzzy hashing, Keith Foggon’s discussions about trends and techniques and Lee Whitfield’s Windows Shadow Volumes presentation.
I will also be there, talking about log2timeline. The title of my talk is Mastering the Super Timeline – log2timeline style. After the talk I will participate in a tool talk panel, so there is your chance to pound me with some difficult questions…
The abstract of my talk is:
Traditional timeline analysis can be extremely useful yet it sometimes misses important events that are stored inside files on the suspect system (log files, OS artifacts). By solely depending on traditional filesystem timeline the investigator misses context that is necessary to get a complete and accurate description of the events that took place. To achieve this goal of enlightenment we need to dig deeper and incorporate information found inside artifacts or log files into our timeline analysis and create some sort of super timeline. These artifacts or log files could reside on the suspect system itself or in another device, such as a firewall or a proxy. This talk will focus on the tool log2timeline, which is a framework built to parse different log files and artifacts to produce a super timeline in an easy automatic fashion, designed to assist investigators in their timeline analysis.
So the talk will contain some of the work in my upcoming Gold paper, titled “Mastering the Super Timeline With log2timeline” (did someone notice the similarities between the titles). The paper should be published soon, at least before the summit.