What is a DDoS Attack? DDoS is an abbreviation of Distributed Denial of Service and is an attempt by an attacker to disrupt the traffic of a server or network through flooding it with Internet traffic sent from a botnet formed of computers or IoT devices (Internet of Things that include around 8.5 billion devices […]
Anti Forensics Techniques
What Anti-Forensic Techniques Are There? Whilst a computer forensic or mobile phone forensic investigation can include all live and deleted data present upon a device, data can be hidden or prevented from being accessible to a forensic investigator. This article includes various ways in which data can be hidden. Encryption Encryption is the use of […]
The SS7 Hack Explained
SS7 Explained The Signalling System No 7 (SS7) is a set of telephone signalling protocols that was originally developed in 1975 that are used to setup telephone calls and provides other services including number translation and SMS. The SS7 protocol is named Common Channel Interoffice Signaling 7 (CCIS7) in the UK and Common Channel Signalling […]
Images Sent via WhatsApp
What is MetaData within a Digital Photograph or Image? Image metadata is text based information that is added to a digital photograph by the device used to take or capture it, such as the make and model of the mobile phone, or the software used to edit it, such as Adobe Photoshop. The metadata within […]
The Dark Web
The Dark Web – What is it? The ‘dark web’ forms part of the deep web and is not indexed in the normal way by search engines (e.g. Google etc). ‘Deep web’ websites are not indexed as they may consist of Internet email, forums, social media accounts, legal documents, online banking etc as well as […]