Digital Forensic Diaries: Vigilante

Digital forensics is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of the modern day information security field. Digital Forensics Diaries allow you to follow a digital forensics investigator through the half scientific, half artistic process that leads to cracking cases without any physical evidence. Based on the authors real world experiences, the diaries tell fictionalized versions of security incidents and subsequent investigations. A must-listen for anyone interested in computer security or the digital forensics field.

In this episode, our investigator works with a construction company who are besieged by an anarchist group. Motivated by the company's involvement in a controversial building project, the anarchists target employees and personal property. With only a few threatening emails to go on, how can our investigator succeed where a police investigation has stalled? Can he help identify the members of the group before they do even more damage?

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