Finding the right information when you’re looking for it sometimes takes a while. I wanted to share with you some information that I quickly put together on the GPT partitioning scheme. While doing some course development work for a graduate couse titled “Operating System Analysis“and I wanted to locate a current resource on the GPT partitioning scheme. Of course we …
It's been a while, but for a good reason…
My wife and I had our first baby in June. I’ve been spending a lot of time with the family so I’ve been pretty much non-existant on social media. I plan on being back full tilt sometime in August. Until then, please enjoy this photo. This has been one of our favorite places to get to know each other. Jonathan spending quality time …
Computer Forensic Failures – File system issues
I’m very happy to report that I received short story that clearly resulted in the author learning from their actions. The author of this story wished to remain anonymous. The below story has not been edited but a picture was added for those that have never seen an an IBM AIX tower. IBM AIX Server I saw your post on one of …
Jonathan Rajewski appeared on Fox44 News
On April 23, 2012, Jonathan Rajewski appeared on Fox44’s evening news. The topic of the conversation surrounded the DNSChanger malware and how on/after July 9th, 2012 those infected won’t be “protected” any longer. We also discussed how one could check to see if they are infected, remediation steps and best practices to avoid these types of malicious tools. Below is a video of the …
Champlain College ITS Technology Conference April 21, 2012
All systems are go for this weekend’s first ITS technology conference (“CUT”). More information can be found here: http://champlainTechConf.blogspot.com Who can attend? Anyone! (feel free to forward) Location: Champlain College – Hauke 005 Date: This Saturday (April 21, 2012) When: 9:30am-3:30pm (followed by ITS Capstone presentations from3:30pm-5:00pm in the Hauke Conference Room) Anyone may attend, but …
Computer & Digital Forensic Failures
Why would one want to study digital forensic failures? The same reason one practices what to do in a sporting game situation – so they’re prepared for the real game. A related reason is when a Football player watches game tape – they can learn from their and others mistakes. Lawyers conduct mock trials etc… This blog post will be …
Jonathan Rajewski – Computer & Digital Forensic Professor – Recognized as one of the nations "Best 300 Professors" by The Princeton Review
“It’s all about the students” – This was my answer to the question “Why do you teach?” posed to me few weeks ago by an industry professional. Preparing students for their future careers in the digital forensic / incident response / cyber security industries is something that I really enjoy. It’s also one ways I can contribute to the cyber security / computer forensic …
Capstone Update
The end is near… Only a nine more days until this year’s Champlain College computer forensic senior capstone projects are due. In the past few weeks however, some of them have modified and/or completely changed their projects. The good news is, they are all diligently working on something that is relevant to what they plan on doing after graduation. The …
Jonathan Rajewski appeared on Vermont Public Radio
On March 22, 2012, I appeared as a guest on Vermont Public Radio’s Vermont Edition – “Vermont’s Been Hacked” program. Also being interviewed was Dr. Peter Stephenson, the Director of the Norwich University Advanced Computing Center. We were interviewed for approximately 46 minutes on topics surrounding Hacking, Cyber Security, Cyber Terrorism and Hacktivism. You can listen to the interview on the web here. You can also …
Anti-Forensics and Network Forensics – Course Update
So I’ve been very busy doing work, but wanted to spend a few minutes updating this course’s blog. To date we’ve covered the following: Metasploit – Slacker/Transmogrify and Temporal data manipulation / and detecting it Digital Darkroom technologies – manipulation of digital media and detection Digitalization of data – digital/analog conversion etc Cryptography Cryptanalysis – learning how encryption / decryption works. Photo adopted from http://bit.ly/FPSoIv Each and …