Digital Forensic Diaries: Crossbow

By: Mike Sheward

Narrated by: Terry Gager

Length: 1 hr

Publisher's summary

Digital forensics is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of the modern day information security field. The Digital Forensics Diaries allow you to follow a digital forensics investigator through the half scientific, half artistic process that leads to cracking cases without any physical evidence. Based on the author’s real world experiences, the diaries tell fictionalised versions of security incidents and subsequent investigations. A must-listen for anyone interested in computer security or the digital forensics field.

In this episode, our investigator is called to assist the owner of a highly secure aviation technology company, who is receiving ransom demands from a hacker group that claims to have stolen some of his most sensitive source code. With the option to pay a multimillion dollar ransom or suffer the massive reputational damage of having the source code released to the whole world, the stakes are high. Who are the hackers, and how did they manage to defeat multiple layers of security?

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