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Troubleshooting Forensic Drive Imaging and “Advanced Format” (4K Cluster) Drives

June 5th, 2012 | Posted by Brett Edgar in Incident Response - (0 Comments)

In the course of a recent incident response engagement, I ran into a hard-to-track-down problem involving imaging a drive. I was using a forensically sound hardware ATA drive imager (the awesome DiskJockey Pro Forensic edition), and was attempting to make several copies of a 2.5″ 250GB SATA Western Digital laptop drive that had a single Windows XP NTFS partition. The client had no similarly sized drives available, so our destination disks were brand new Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB 2.5″ SATA drives. 250GB can be copied by the DiskJockey in under an hour, so we figured this was going to be a two or three hour process. Oh, how wrong we were…Read more

Brett Edgar

Brett Edgar

Brett is a Founder and the former Director of Managed Security Services at TRUE. He has been working in the system and network forensics field since graduating from the University of Tulsa with a B.S. Computer Science in 2003. He speaks hexadecimal fluently and is TRUE's resident human Ethernet transceiver. He holds CISSP, CSSLP, and CNSS 4011-4015 certificates, loves MLB and NCAA Football, and when he gets tired of hexadecimal, he goes home to hang out with his wife and kid.

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When A Credit Card Payment Processor Gets Hacked

April 3rd, 2012 | Posted by Valerie Jacobi in Incident Response | PCI - (0 Comments)

Not to make light of the gravity of the event, but here we go again – Consumers are subjected to another round of warnings about yet another credit card information breach! Unfortunately, these data breach warnings are in danger of becoming as common as the daily weather report. This time the source of the breach, which affects Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards, has been laid at the feet of Atlanta-based payment processor Global Payments. Global Payments self-reported that unauthorized access into its processing system had indeed taken place earlier this year.

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Valerie Jacobi

Valerie Jacobi

Valerie Jacobi is a Guest Contributor for True Digital Security and has extensive experience in security policy and procedure development, controls design and testing, auditing, and consulting. Valerie holds CISSP and CISA certifications.

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The Importance of an Incident Response Plan

October 31st, 2011 | Posted by Brett Edgar in Incident Response | Monitoring - (0 Comments)

Most organizations are going to experience a computer security incident each year. Those organizations that don’t experience an incident only avoid doing so by being blind to what is going on in their information systems. If you are even casually looking at your computers and networks, you will find incidents. Read more

Brett Edgar

Brett Edgar

Brett is a Founder and the former Director of Managed Security Services at TRUE. He has been working in the system and network forensics field since graduating from the University of Tulsa with a B.S. Computer Science in 2003. He speaks hexadecimal fluently and is TRUE's resident human Ethernet transceiver. He holds CISSP, CSSLP, and CNSS 4011-4015 certificates, loves MLB and NCAA Football, and when he gets tired of hexadecimal, he goes home to hang out with his wife and kid.

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