Volatility at Black Hat USA & DFRWS 2014

Due to another year of open research and giving back to the open source community, Volatility will have a strong presence at both Black Hat USA and DFRWS 2014. This includes presentations, a book signing, and even a party!

At Black Hat, the core Volatility Developers (@4tphi, @attrc, @gleeda, @iMHLv2, and Mike Auty) will be partaking in a number of events including:

• Releasing Volatility 2.4 at Black Hat Arsenal: This release includes full support for Windows 8, 8.1, Server 2012, and Server 2012 R2, TrueCrypt key and password recovery modules, a switch to GitHub hosting, as well as over 30 new Mac and Linux plugins for investigating malicious code, rootkits, and user activity. 
• Releasing The Art of Memory Forensics: AMF is over 900 pages of memory forensics and malware analysis across Windows, Mac, and Linux. It will be available for the first time in the bookstore during the pre-conference trainings and briefings.
• Book Signing for AMF: On Wednesday, August 6th at 3:15PM, in the Black Hat book store, we will be on site for signing books. 
• Volatility Happy Hour sponsored by The Hacker Academy: This will be an open bar party where you can meet our team, bring books to be signed, and get stickers, t-shirts, and other Volatility swag all while enjoying tasty beverages. You must register (free) if you wish to attend!

Friends of Volatility will also be leading a number of events at Black Hat including Briefing presentations from Silvio Cesare and Andrew Hay and Arsenal demos from Joe Grand, Vico Marziale, Joe Sylve, David Cowen, and Jeff Bryner. 

At DFRWS, Dr. Golden Richard (@nolaforensix) will be presenting a paper that he and I wrote: In Lieu of Swap: Analyzing Compressed RAM in Mac OS X and Linux. In this paper, we discuss the in-memory, compressed swap facilities of Mac OS X and Linux, their impact on memory forensics investigations, and how we developed Volatility plugins to decompress the caches transparently during the operation of Mac & Linux analysis plugins. 

We hope to see everyone at these events, and we are looking forward to an exciting August!