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If You Are Doing Incident Response, You Are Doing It Wrong
I’d been thinking about this for awhile, but conversations with Rob Lee and then a presentation with him really helped me clarify my thinking on this issue. Here goes: If you are doing incident...
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Drone Forensics – An Overview
[This is the first in a series of posts about the forensic analysis of drones leading up to presentations at BSides NOLO and SANS DFIR Summit in Austin.] Drones (properly known as small unmanned aerial...
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Mounting a JFFS2 dd image in Linux
So there I was, holding a dd image of a JFFS2 filesystem dumped from a drone. Great, good to go! Let’s start our analysis! Not so fast, mounting one of these things is non-trivial. After much trial and...
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Cybersecurity and non-military UAVs (aka drones)
Consumer and commercial drones are hot – they are changing the way we farm, they are crashing on the White House lawn, they are leading to $50 million VC investments, and they are firing the...
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Forensic collection form for UAVs/drones.
Proper forensic analysis of anything starts with proper forensic collection of whatever it is that needs to be analyzed. UAVs are no different. As noted in an earlier post, there are a lot of...
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Frontier blocking access from Mediacom
Update: 5 days later. Frontier still can’t tell me anything, but they asked me to check with Mediacom. Mediacom agrees, Frontier is dropping the traffic, it is Frontier’s problem. Hey David, Thanks for...
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Outline of Upcoming Presentations on UAV forensics
I will be presenting on forensic analysis processes and techniques at the following conferences this summer: BSides NOLA – May 30th, 2015 HTCIA/ISSA in Los Angeles – June 4th, 2015 SANS DFIR Summit in...
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Precision guided counter-UAV solutions, a thought piece
Most counter-UAV techniques are illegal or very closely regulated outside of a war zone. The proliferation of consumer and commercial UAVs is prompting people to consider ways to disable them or take...
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Analysis of FAA 333 exemption grants, it isn’t all about photography
There is a lot of uncertainty in the US UAV market due to lack of data. We do not have accurate sales data, number of hours flown, number of incidents, or even a good definition of what a UAV incident...
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What are the most popular drones for commercial use? Let’s ask the Section...
Last week we took a look at the FAA Section 333 exemption grant data to see what states had the most activity, how long the FAA took to issue grants, and what purposes were given for flying a UAV...
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A quick UAV point of view on the impact of too much rain on soy and corn.
I am not a farmer but I’ve been living among them for years now. Some of my best friends are farmers, truckers, and mechanics and conversations naturally turn to farming and crops. I’ve also been...
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Tips on starting a UAV/drone based business
We were recently interviewed and asked to talk about how we got into UAVs and what tips we could share with others who are interested in doing so. It came out pretty well.
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The flip side of drone privacy – personal details of UAV operators exposed
People have been registering domain names for years and many years ago someone realized that being able to anonymously register a domain name might be a good idea. There is now a proxy system in place...
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Getting to Tajikistan on an IOU and a promise – International search and...
[Written in 2005] I’m writing this en route from Istanbul to Munich after departing Dushanbe this morning. We’ll overnight in Munich and return to San Francisco at 6:30PM on Sunday evening. All told,...
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Using UAVs for conducting post-tornado damage assessments
On July 17th, 2015, we were asked by the Tazewell County Emergency Management Agency to fly a UAV mission to collect aerial imagery to be used for damage assessment and storm severity determination....
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Recorded presentation of UAV forensic analysis
I’ve been giving a presentation on the fundamentals of UAV forensics for several months, primarily for law enforcement and for other cyber security people. The presentation was recorded last month and...
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What Can a Drone Actually “See”?
I think the UAV industry in general and the search & rescue community in specific should do a lot more work on designing and performing experiments with UAVs. Vendors and sales outlets keep touting...
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UAVs in SAR – Deployment and Effectiveness
In an earlier post I wrote: “I think the search & rescue community should do a lot more work on designing and performing experiments with UAVs. Vendors and sales outlets keep touting their UAVs as...
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A Falling DJI Phantom Might, or Might Not, Crush Your Skull
The title is intentionally provoking. Too many public comments are similar to “A falling drone will give you a bump on the head”. In fact, there is a reasonable chance it will kill you. Which of these...
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What are the most popular drones for commercial use? Let’s ask the Section...
Last week we took a look at the FAA Section 333 exemption grant data to see what states had the most activity, how long the FAA took to issue grants, and what purposes were given for flying a UAV...
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