In this diary I am going to outline some of the lessons that I have learned and hope that some of you will share your lessons learned with us…

The Toronto Star reports that the appeal of R. v. Patrick – about whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in garbage stored outside of a home – is ready to be head by the Supreme Court of Canada this fall…

Within the realm of computer forensic analysis, there are a number of areas of a Windows system in which artifacts indicating user activity may be found…

In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age…

Make sure you lock down those WiFi APs

arp-scan sends ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) queries to the specified targets, and displays any responses that are received. It allows any part of the outgoing ARP packets to be changed, allowing the behavior of targets to non-standard ARP packets to be examined. The IP address and hardware address of received packets are displayed, together with the vendor details. These details are obtained from the IEEE OUI and IAB listings, plus a few manual entries. It includes arp-fingerprint, which allows a system to be fingerprinted based on how it responds to non-standard ARP packets.