Heather Mahalik has posted about a list of recommendations on iOS and Android-based smartphones forensic acquisition. If you haven’t checked it yet, it’s high time to do it!

The purpose of these challenges is to familiarize beginners with common malware techniques. Don’t worry if you can’t complete a challenge, the author will soon be creating a video explaining each one in detail.

In this post John Booth describes how to detect encoded or obfuscated command-lines used by attackers on Linus hosts. As you may already know, “these techniques have the additional benefit of avoiding the need to drop a file to disk, reducing the risk to an attacker of being detected by traditional anti-virus products.”

Here is a list of tips on getting hired in DFIR by Brett Shavers:

Hal Pomeranz has started a series of blog posts about forensic analysis of XFS file system. XFS is becoming more common on Linux systems, but we are lacking forensic tools for decoding it. The first post will provide you with a quick overview of this file system, and focus on the superblock.

Didier Stevens has posted about how to use IOCs (Indicators Of Compromise) to create your own custom YARA rules. In the post he creates custom YARA rules to detect compromised CCleaner executables.

Sarah Edwards has found a very usefull bug in macOS High Sierra – unified logs show plaintext password for APFS encrypted external volumes via Disk Utility. Learn more about it in this post.

In this post Jamey Tubbs, Magnet Software Training Director, shows how the latest versions of Windows 10 destroy digital evidence during updating process.

Marcus Bakker from MB Secure has published a tutorial on how to catch malware beaconing from an infrastructure where a non-transparent proxy is used for all outgoing network traffic.

In this post Brad Garnett writes about the importance of logging in incident response. Brad mentions such important digital evidence sources, as PowerShell logs, Sysmon and Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP). He finishes the post with noting the importance of memory forensics for any blue team member.