Cyber Defence Lab

Harvesting PGP secret keys from poorly secured Thunderbird instance

If you're privacy-conscious (which is great!) and have set up Thunderbird to use PGP for signing and encrypting your emails, you’ve likely taken important steps to ensure that no third party, including your email provider, can access your private communications. You probably followed an online tutorial to get it set up—but have you enabled a primary password?

Install Autopsy on Linux and on the SIFT workstation

Autopsy is an open-source digital forensics platform widely used for investigating and analyzing digital media, such as hard drives, memory cards, and smartphones. Developed by Basis Technology, it serves as the graphical front-end for The Sleuth Kit (TSK), a powerful collection of command-line tools for forensic analysis. It also includes additional tools like PhotoRec. Autopsy simplifies the forensic process by offering a user-friendly interface and features like timeline analysis, keyword searching, file carving, and metadata extraction.

A brief overview of passkey

You may have come across terms like "passkeys" or the intriguing idea of going "passwordless." These concepts might sound confusing, especially since we're all so used to securing everything with passwords—and constantly reminded of the importance of having strong ones. So, how could a world without passwords possibly be secure? In this blog post, we’ll explore this new method of authentication and break down how it works in a simple, easy-to-understand way. We won’t dive into the technical details, but you’ll get a clear overview of what passkeys are and how they can change the way we stay secure online.