Injection in ‘Export to Spreadsheet’ functionality

Comma separated vulnerability also known as Formula Injection/csv injection. Introduction: This document demonstrates the CSV injection a technique for exploiting “Export to Spreadsheet” functionality. While working on some project, I have found this vulnerability in one of the Microsoft’s product i.e. CRM – Customer Relationship Management What is CRM? : It is a product by […]

ISO 27004 – Information Security Metrics Implementation

Introduction Compliance to the ISO 27001 standard and associated controls helps an organization to understand information security risks and develop an information security management system (ISMS) in order to address the risks identified. The ISO 27001 implementation process aims to provide management an intuitive understanding of information security. However, management also requires answers to the […]

Volume Boot Sector Format of FAT

by Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting There are times when you don’t have sufficient tools to understand the file system. At that time your knowledge in field of digital forensics will play a crucial role. In this article we will study a volume boot sector format of FAT32 file system and will see how to take […]

Recycle Bin Forensics

by Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting Have you ever thought of what happens when you hit the delete button? Delete: When we simply delete a file we are throwing that file in the recycle bin of that particular volume. For example, if file resides in C: drive having FAT32 as file system and we delete a […]

Understanding NTFS file system

by Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting In this article I will cover the basic concepts of NTFS file system. In NTFS (New Technologies File System) all important data like the basic file system administrative data are stored in a file and these files can be stored anywhere in a particular volume. These files don’t have reserved […]

Data Carving Issues

by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting Many a times as an investigator, I have to deal with the issue of carving data from unallocated spaces in a partition. There are many commercial data carving tools such as Encase, Winhex, Accessdata FTK, DataLifter, ILookInvestigator. Well, I have tried most of these and must say most of them […]