Mike Worman

Remember that with Perl the key benefit is the ability to easily implement almost any kind of input/output processing system one might need or conceive, without the need for a lot of code or time in development. When you are faced with massive amounts of data and a small amount of analytical time,...

Ah Perl. Mysterious and maddening, it lies at the heart of the Internet as well as a million Ways to Do It. I discovered Perl in the mid 90s, before PHP and a lot of the other newfangled dynamic languages for web content. Javascript was a toy back then, and Java barely ran on anything. Graphics and...

Given the ongoing investigation at Fannie Mae, it seems appropriate to start waxing philosophical a bit on some recent evolutionary changes in the digital forensics world. While it is true a majority of forensics cases revolve around suspected wrongdoing involving a computer (e.g. fraud), using...

Full disk encryption is great for security, but encrypting data carries with it some incidental risk. Forgotten or otherwise unknown encryption passphrases and keys can lead to serious consequences in many situations. In forensics and incident response we use and encounter encryption all the time,...

"Gentlemen, you are about to enter the most fascinating sphere of police work: the world of forensic medicine." I am just old enough to remember that long before shows like CSI became pop culture, there was the great Quincy, M.E. Those dramatic words (and who can forget the sudden retching of one...