How to Investigate Like a Rockstar: Live a real crisis to master the secrets of forensic analysis

Hacking the Planet #5

by Sparc Flow

The company calling us just discovered an anomaly on their most critical systems. Our job is to conduct a deep forensic analysis, perform threat assessment, and uncover all malware programs left by hackers. Digital Forensics We follow the attacker's footprint across a variety of systems and create an infection timeline to help us understand their motives. We go as deep as memory analysis, perfect disk copy, threat hunting and malware analysis while sharing insights into real crisis management. Rebuilding systems Finally, we tackle the most important issues of any security incident how to kick the attackers out of the systems and regain trust in machines that have been breached. For those that read hacking books like the "Art of Exploitation" or "How to Hack Like a Pornstar", you finally get to experience what it feels like to be on the other side of the Firewall!

116 pages, Paperback

Published August 17, 2017

About the author

Sparc Flow is a computer security expert.
He specializes in ethical hacking and has presented his research at international security conferences like Black Hat, DEF CON, Hack In The Box,...

While his day job consists mainly of hacking companies and showing them how to fix their security vulnerabilities, his passion is writing and sharing the insight he gained in the security field

His first book "How to Hack Like a Pornstar" captures the essence of multiple situations he faced in real life and offers the reader a peak into the world of hacking and pentesting

Reviews

[Haitham Youssef · Rating 5 out of 5]

Goes through a complete incident response case with all technical details, tools and scripts, and all of that is presented as a story
Highly recommend for anyone interested in incident response