Happy New Year!

I have been absent from the blogging scene for a while now (again). To be honest, I haven't had a great deal worth writing about and didn't really have time anyway. I did want to mention a couple things, though.

I was pleasantly surprised to be nominated for election to the board of the Consortium of Digital Forensic Specialists and even more surprised to find out I got elected. I gave it considerable though before accepting the nomination. I decided to go for it because I do care about the CDFS and the role it can play in our field. I'll have more to say about it as I get involved with the board. Thank you very much to all those who voted for me.

I was fortunate to attend both the Open Memory Forensics Workshop and the Open Source Digital Forensics conference back in November. As expected, both were very much worth attending. I plan to talk more about them in a (hopefully soon) future post, but I just wanted to say thanks to the Volatility crew and Basis Technology for such a great couple of days. Besides the great talks, I was happy to connect with friends I hadn't seen in a long time. I was also happy I got my copy of the Art of Memory Forensics signed by all four authors. I will be very surprised if this book doesn't win a 4cast award this year I was also the lucky recipient of a $100 Amazon gift card at the OSDF conference!

My friend Carlos Cajigas has a new post up on his Mash that Key blog talking about using the built-in tools in Linux to view text based logs. He goes through auth logs from his Linux server and shows how to use grep, cut, head and other commands to narrow down the data to what you're really wanting to see. This is well worth a read if you find yourself parsing through server logs to the point of driving you nuts.

That's all I've got for right now. 2014 was a great year for DFIR and I look forward to seeing what this new year will bring.