Articles for Mipro 2015 conference

Mipro is nice technical conference in Opatija, our mother company IN2 is a sponsor so we put set of articles about digital forensics and security. There are very strict reviewers but we managed to get trough. I wrote about experience in mobile forensics  professional training since 2012 under posh title "Concepts and methodology in mobile devices digital forensics education and training". It is about relating our experience with issues mentioned in Stephen Pearson and Richard Watson book : “DigitalTriage Forensics”, Syngress ,July 13, 2010,  ISBN-13: 978-1-59749-596-7, and  Gary C. Kessler presentation :“Is Mobile Device ForensicsReally "Forensics"?”,  NIST Mobile Forensics Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, June 2014. Paper get a rough recension, a lot of requests for clarifying,  I suppose the subject was interesting. I'll add article when it will available trough official conference site.

 "Digital Triage Forensics" is my old favorite, I loved since I read it.  Book  address practical issues in putting whole organization into motion, not only mobile  forensics issues. Unfortunately tools used are outdated, plenty of new versions and changes come since 2010,  but everything else is still extremely useful, especially if you are working with military or police. 

DataFoucs 2015 - 31 March 2015 - Zagreb, Croatia

I've been forgetting to put a few lines about DataFocus 2015 in Zagreb from the 31st March 2015.  It's the fourth and got the best reviews.  As far as I was concerned, I was to remain only on the margins of the conference and on the lunch actively trying to avoid any responsibilities and enjoy good food and interesting lectures. However, this was not meant to be. There were a lot of interesting talks and a lot of interesting tools, NUIX, Belkasoft, FTK, EnCase, Oxygen. At the end there were a lot of happy winners with the lotttery, especially among our Police Accademy students. 

Workshops were fully attended with people popping in at the last minute. My own small contribution was an unusual one. For such events with international lecturers something can go wrong, Murphy's law is always somewhere around, and there is always a backup plan for emergencies, This time, lecturers for first lecture at legal track "Legal and Investigative Aspects of Bitcoin" were unable to get to Zagreb on time, the day before DataFocus.  Since the subject was extremely interesting it was decided not to replace the lecture with the scheduled backup, but to replace the lecturer with apologies and hopefully some add-on value. As the task landed on me, I had to do my best in preparing for that lecture in one day. To make things worse my knowledge about Bitcon, at the time, was twopence worth. In short it was a long 24 hours, I even decline attending the VIP dinner the night before the conference because I was studying :) :)

The original material by Vaciago Giuseppe and Dal Checco Paolo was very good and concise but, to me, a lot of details seemed missing. So I used resources from the excellent online book "Mastering Bitcoin By: Andreas M. Antonopoulos".  The further I went through the book the more impressed and intrigued I got. The author of Bitcoin was really a genius in more than one field.  The lecture went well, my friend Blerim Krasniqi has taken some pictures of lecture, it all went well.