We’re pleased to announce the first Beta of Lightgrep Search for EnCase! It’s been a long time coming, but Lightgrep Search for EnCase is finally ready! Emails went out to our Beta subscribers on Sunday. If you received our request for information, please send us your contact info and EnCase dongle ID at info@lightboxtechnologies.com. Any [...]
Jon and I had the opportunity to present at CEIC in Orlando this year. Jon presented a session called Deep Dive Grep, in which he showed a method of representing GREP keywords as simple flowcharts. I haven’t seen anyone present keywords in this manner before, and I think it makes the topic really easy to [...]
Jon gave a presentation on the inner workings of keyword search at the NYC4Sec Meetup on January 19, “Lightgrep – Fast Keyword Searching for Forensics.” There was a good crowd of about 30 with a mix of active industry professionals and grad students from John Jay’s Forensic Computing program. It’s nice to see the students [...]
Speed is a feature. An Information Week article today talked about the success and growth of the FBI’s RCFL program. In 2009, the RCFLs processed 2.3 petabytes. If you’re processing petabytes, you need to go big to go fast. Going 17,000 miles per hour isn’t easy, though. As in rocketry, mistakes in forensics often aren’t [...]
I spent last Monday and Tuesday at NeFX, the ACM’s Northeast Forensic Exchange, held at Georgetown University. Thanks go to Clay Shields and Yong Guan for organizing it. There were a number of interesting talks, many about network forensics and covert channels that were well over my head. I particularly enjoyed talks by Nicole Beebe [...]