Two weeks ago, at OSDFCon, we presented the first beta release of Volatility 3, and we are now happy to announce this release officially!
Volatility 3 is a complete rewrite of the framework and enables many new types of analysis.
The first full release is slated for next summer, and we are hoping to inspire many community members to join us in developing, testing, and documenting the framework from now until then.
Full details of the beta release, as well as ongoing and future work, can be found on our blog post:
https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2019/10/announcing-volatility-3-public…
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments. You can send those here or on our new Slack server: https://www.volatilityfoundation.org/slack
— The Volatility Team
We are very excited to announce our public training lineup for 2020!
For the first time since 2016, we will be headed to the west coast - San Diego in March!
We will also be running courses in Herndon in April and October and in Europe in September.
Full information on the course, including locations, dates, and how to register can be found on our blog post:
https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2019/10/volatility-malware-and-memory-…
We looking forward to meeting many new students this year!
— The Volatility Team
Volatility Contributors,
Many of you may have noticed that in a couple of weeks we will be giving a
talk at OSDFCon titled “Volatility 3 Public Beta: The Insider’s Preview”.
This presentation will be the first public introduction and pre-release of
Volatility 3. A major motivation for this talk was to inspire and engage
those members of the community who want to help us get Volatility 3 ready
for its official launch!
Getting to this initial milestone, while supporting users of the current
stable version, has only been possible because of our amazing community!
We are grateful for the contributions and for your patience over the last
couple of years. As a show of appreciation, Volexity is hosting a special
event on the evening of October 15th for the contributors of the
Volatility Project. If you have contributed to the project at some point
over the last 12 years and are attending OSDFCon or happen to be in the
Northern Virginia area on the evening of October 15, please send me a note
off list. Our goal is to get an initial head count by Tuesday, October
1st.
We look forward to hearing from you!
AAron Walters
The Volatility Foundation
We are very excited to announce the speaker lineup for BSidesNOLA 2019!
This year we will have 15 speakers across 3 tracks.
The topics covered span digital forensics, malware analysis, threat hunting, penetration testing, and more.
Full information on each talk and presenter can be found at:
www.bsidesnola.com
You will also find registration, venue, and sponsorship information there as well.
Please register early, if possible, as it greatly helps us in the planning of the event.
We will be announcing the keynote speaker next week so be sure to look for that!
We hope to see you all on October 26th!
If you are going to be in the Reston, VA area on Sept 25th, then you should consider coming out to our meet up.
I will be presenting my recent talk from BSides Las Vegas, “Windows 10 DFIR Challenges”, and Steven Adair will be giving his RSA talk on “Digital Surveillance and Cyberespionage at Scale”.
Not to mention, many of the Volatility developers will also be hanging out.
It would be great to catch up.
Full information can be found here:
https://www.meetup.com/Volexity-Cyber-Sessions/events/264350470/
Thanks,
Andrew
We are very happy to announce that Security BSidesNOLA 2019 will take place on Saturday, October 26th!
This will be our 7th year, and we are hoping to again break our attendance record.
We have switched venues to a beautiful hotel inside the French Quarter that we believe will allow for our best event yet.
Registration and the CFP are both now open.
Full details can be found at http://www.bsidesnola.org.
We are also actively looking for sponsors. If you or your company are interested, then please email bsidesnola(a)gmail.com for a sponsorship packet.
We are looking forward to seeing you all in October!
— The BSidesNOLA Team
We wanted to send a quick reminder that our final public training offerings for 2019 are rapidly approaching.
The first will be in London during the week of September 9-13th and the second will be in Herndon during the week of October 14-18th.
Please contact us ASAP if you wish to attend either of these classes.
Full information can be found here:
https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2018/11/malware-and-memory-forensics-t…
- The Volatility Team
If you are interested in learning more about Volatility 3 and getting
access to the first public pre-release, please vote for the Volatility
Development Team’s OSDFCon submission (#26. Volatility 3 Public Beta: The
Insider’s Preview). Voting ends 6/26/2019.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/osdfconvoting2019
OSDFCON SUBMISSION DETAILS
Volatility 3 Public Beta: The Insider’s Preview
Since its initial public release over a decade ago, Volatility has
attracted one of the largest and most active communities of users and
developers in the digital forensics industry. As a result of those
contributions, it has become the world’s most advanced and widely used
memory forensics platform. In the digital forensics research community,
Volatility has served as the foundation of a thriving ecosystem that
continues to facilitate the rapid transition of cutting-edge technologies
into the hands of digital investigators across the globe.
During the same period, the industry has continued to evolve the way that
operating systems are developed, deployed, and maintained. Similarly, the
skillsets of memory analysts and their preferred work flows have changed
to meet a world with increasingly large volumes of complex data. To
address these challenges, the Volatility development team has been
actively architecting and developing an entirely new version of the
framework, while simultaneously supporting users of the current stable
version.
This presentation will be the first public introduction and pre-release of
Volatility 3. It will highlight how this new framework compares to
previous versions of Volatility and other Volatility-based tools. The
discussion will also highlight many new features and describe our new
contributor focused license. Finally, we will discuss ways the community
can help contribute to the official launch of Volatility 3!
Thanks,
AAron Walters
The Volatility Foundation
The CFP deadline is tomorrow for the 10th Annual Open Source Digital
Forensics Conference (OSDFCon). The conference will be held on Oct 16,
2019.
There are openings for:
* 10-minute short talks
* 35-minute in-person talks
* 35-minute remote talks
* 3-hour hands on workshops
https://www.osdfcon.org/2019-event/2019-call-for-presentations/
Please submit your ideas about open source tools you've developed, used, or
want to exist. The event is 1-day long with 400+ attendees. It's the
biggest open source digital forensics event and the biggest DFIR event in
the Metro DC region.
All you need to submit is an abstract and then we'll crowd source the
agenda.
thanks,
brian
We wanted to send a reminder that our next Malware and Memory Forensics training offering will be in Reston in April. We are about 8 weeks away now and already have a number of seats filled. Our courses in the Reston/Herndon area generally sell out early so please contact us ASAP if you wish to attend.
Full information can be found here:
https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2018/11/malware-and-memory-forensics-t…
We are looking forward to meeting many of you there!
