To catch a hacker in my home lab (opens in new tab)

(marcusedmondson.com)

92 pointsrisk4y ago10 comments

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It might be worth explaining what an "artifact" is. I've tried searching but I can't find anything relevant.

An artifact is a term used in digital forensics to refer to any trace left on a system by an adversary. Examples are files, registry keys and event logs.

OneTimePetes4y ago

Its also anything produced by a artistic production process e.g. in software- aka build-artifacts or documentation.

As with all industries that are "birthed" by a mother-field software-security has overloaded the term inherited from its birth place industry.

In this case, its the product produced by the investigation.

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didntknowya4y ago

yea vastly different from a medical context where it's used to describe false positives or characteristics

bellyfullofbac4y ago

Yeah, to judge from a writing point of view this is a terrible introduction. It links to a Github page with a 1 line readme although the paragraph itself says "There is a README file that has some question that can be answered based off the artifacts that are also on my Github." (That README is in a subdirectory in that git repo... I think?).

kenniskrag4y ago

Here it is: https://github.com/medmondson44/dune/blob/main/noabar/README...

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