Category Archives: Forensic investigation

9 Vendors of Digital Forensics You May Have Missed. Part 1

Looking for a solid solution to unravel computer-stored evidence? Need a deeper insight into what’s happening on your PC or a suspect’s device, looking to restore or crack an essential password? Check out this brief review of unheralded yet powerful forensic tools. The most common definition of computer forensics is the procedure of detecting and analyzing evidence collected from digital media, i.e. hard drives, portable… Read More »

Forensics and Benford’s Law

As a producer of digital forensic software, we are regularly learning more about forensic methods and tasks. Recently I came across a curious article (and video) in Business Insider called “How forensic accountants use Benford’s Law to detect fraud” The video states that forensic guys can use Benford’s Law to analyze financial data and identify red flags. This sounds interesting because it is too easy to… Read More »

Advanced filtering. How to filter events by event description

A key instrument for event logs analysis is the function of event filtering. All known event log analysis tools have filtering feature, and I suppose, it is the most demanded feature of these applications. Setting filter for the most of event fields is easy. As a rule, all the event log applications let you filter by timeframe, event level, source, event IDs, users or computers… Read More »

Exploring who logged on the system

One of the most important tasks in the security event log analysis is to find out who or what logs your system on. Here I will explain how Event Log Explorer helps you to solve this task. First, you need to make sure that Windows security auditing is enabled for logon events. You can do this using Local Security Policy or Group Policy, depending on… Read More »