CyberSpeak December 21 2008

Link to podcast

Tech Tip: Peltier Coolers.

If you have ever imaged a hard drive, you know they can get hot. If you can keep the drive cooler, you may be able to get more information off of the drive. Here is a device that I saw in Fry's, but never got because it was a little expensive. Well I saw one in a local thrift store for 8 bucks-so I broke down and bought one.

http://shop3.frys.com/product/4730919



This really helps keeping a notebook drive cooler while imaging. Just to be safe, I md5 hashed a drive, then left it on the cooler for twenty four hours, then hashed it again. There was no change. I have left drives on it for days with no real problems.

Worth checking out.

CyberSpeak Oct 20, 2008

Bitching podcast

his week Ovie and Bret talk about the SANS What Works in Forensics and Incident Response Summit. We also cover memory imaging with MDD and Volatility. Website of the week 123people.com.

TradeCraft-www.zabasearch.com

This is a great resource for finding out information about people. It seems to be based on tax and property records. Great way to find out addresses and other stuff.

ZABASEARCH
Free People Search and Public Information Search Engine

Worst IT jobs ever!

A great Inforworld piece about the worst jobs in IT. Cage monkeys, COBOL heads, help desk goomers, and the like. Other than the programmer sides, I have done all of these.

Link to article.