The EIA has released an Excel add-in that will let you pull data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and St. Louis Federal Reserve’s Economic Data (FRED) that are publicly available and typically in weekly or monthly increments directly into your Excel workbook. It expands on the functionality from the Federal Reserve Excel add-in called
The other day I was trying to reset the size of a SD card I had imaged for a raspberry pi project. Since the drive was reporting 50mb verse it’s true size of 8gb. Let me also say this was my home pc. One way to reset the size is using diskpart in windows. You
MetaDiver 2.0 alpha is now available for download! This is the first build after a major rewrite. I think you will like what you see but be sure to provide feedback on bugs so I can squash them! Download the build: https://45.76.237.35/Downloads/MetaDiver/ Review changelog: https://45.76.237.35/Downloads/MetaDiver/changelog.txt I hope you enjoy the MetaDiver! If you have feedback,
MetaDiver 2.0 is finally here. I hope to drop the release the alpha of 2.0 tomorrow in Downloads! This is a huge list of features and changes for MetaDiver. It’s been a LOT of work but a lot of fun and much of the research that has gone into the code has been hugely beneficial
If you have ever been looking for a way to access your computer disk without having to deal with user permissions and constrains the operating system enforces then this is the series to read. David Cowen is working on an excellent series called “Automating DFIR” (Digital Forensics Incident Response) on his blog “Hacking Exposed Computer
Got a Raspbery Pi 2 today. Microcenter has it on sale. You can also sign up for the Windows 10 at the Windows Developer Program for IoT page to get on the list for when it becomes available for the Raspberry Pi 2. The latest Raspbian works great and blazing fast in X-Windows compared to the
Right now a lot of IT admins are running around looking at laptops for a nasty cert that comes pre-installed from a certain manufacturer. You can read what all the uproar is about from the article below. My PowerShell needed a little refresh so this was a fun exercise. Here is a quick way
Microsoft blog has posted a link to PowerShell script for resetting the password to the Kerberos krbtgt service on active directory to deal with the golden ticket issue. Just make sure the password gets changed twice. Post: http://blogs.microsoft.com/cybertrust/2015/02/11/krbtgt-account-password-reset-scripts-now-available-for-customers/ PowerShell Script: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Reset-the-krbtgt-account-581a9e51 Here’s a script to the Kerberos Golden Ticket Check script from Microsoft to help
Kevin Stokes has a nice write-up on a newer Windows 8.1 event log that stores ntfs usage information called the “Microsoft-Windows-Ntfs/NTFS Operational” log. It was enabled in an April 2014 windows update. It logs useful information about the volume each time you plug a device in to your computer or boot creating a nice new
Today I’m posting some research I did early last year related to querying Chrome Web Browser SQLite databases which is how Chrome stores most of the useful information that makes for a great browsing experience. A byproduct of course is useful information for an examiner. In this post I’m going to talk about two databases