brettshavers

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Fell off a cliff. Swam with sharks. Dined with hitmen. Hung out with crime bosses. Bought and sold a ton of drugs. How the heck am I still here? #DFIR #USMC đźš“
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Brett_Shavers
Websitehttps://www.brettshavers.com
A Practical Map of the DFIR Internet: Marketplaces, FAQs, and Fire Exits

The right DFIR resource at the right moment is worth more than ten bookmarked sites you never learned how to use.No one DFIR website does everything well. And it shouldn’t. Trying to be everything usually means becoming mediocre at all of it. The smarter move is to know what each resource is best at and use it for that purpose. That is how I look a...

DFIR Training
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Phil Anderson joins Paul to unpack the new Forensic Focus International Well-Being Study — listen now and complete the survey to help shape real change for DFIs worldwide. https://www.forensicfocus.com/podcast/forensic-focus-international-well-being-study-have-your-say/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR
Forensic Focus International Well-Being Study - Have Your Say - Forensic Focus

Phil Anderson joins Paul to unpack the new Forensic Focus International Well-Being Study — listen now and complete the survey to help shape real change for DFIs worldwide.

Forensic Focus
Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – have your say in the International Well-Being Study, find out about the recent F3 Analyst's Annual Workshop, hear how Oxygen Forensics is enabling smarter, faster remote DFIR collections, and more. https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/forensic-focus-digest-january-09-2026/ #DigitalForensics #DFIR

Some stats from our Digital Forensics Now Podcast audio version for 2025.
Thank you so much for geeking out without this past year. Let's keep it going on 2026!
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#DigitalForensics #MobileForensics #DFIR

Week 02 – 2026

No sponsor this week. If your organisation is interested, head over here to find out more. Akash PatelCase Studies: Building Effective Timelines with Plaso (Log2Timeline) Christian Peter“Far over t…

This Week In 4n6
The same people who pushed you for speed during the primary incident will ask you, with a straight face, why you didn’t preserve the things they now need.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dfir-three-body-problem-brett-shavers-i8zmc

An Attribution Framework in #DFIR.

Tie the Act to the Actor.

https://zenodo.org/records/17745959

I spent two years in litigation hell. Trial was worse.

Thirty years of courtroom experience made me cocky, but the court fixed that.

This is the first and only time I talk about this case, as this is the case that made me think of quitting DFIR.

https://brettshavers.com/brett-s-blog/entry/fight-city-hall-if-you-missed-the-webinar-youre-making-mistakes-you-dont-know-about