Cool stuff learned from competing in the DC3 digital forensic challenge

Presented at DEF CON 15 (2007), Aug. 3, 2007, 2 p.m. (50 minutes)

Last fall, the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) hosted a digital forensics challenge that included interesting puzzles such as physical media reconstruction, data carving, password cracking, and booting forensic images with virtual machines. My team from Georgetown University competed with a shoestring budget against a 140 teams and came in 4th place overall. The presentation will cover the individual challenges, our solutions, and the methodologies we developed to compete with the pros.

Presenters:

• Mickey Lasky - Senior Security Analyst
• David C. Smith - University Information Security Officer, Georgetown University
  David C. Smith works at Georgetown University as the University Information Security Officer and manages a team to provide security services to the University in this time of data loss / e-discovery peril. Prior to becoming much more of "the man" than he intended, Dave was a security consultant, active with open source projects, a 2600 meeting regular in DC / Northern VA area, and ran a bitchin WWIV BBS - The Last Cigarette.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-15/dc-15-speakers.html#Smith
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 15/DEF CON 15 video/DEF CON 15 - David Smith - Cool Stuff Learned Competing in DC3 Digital Challenge - Video.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pPzW-Xcv1w