[sleuthkit-users] Autopsy Student Module Contest

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

[This message is targeted at students of digital forensics courses and teachers.  If you aren't one of them, you can stop reading.]

Basis Technology is again sponsoring a challenge for students to write Autopsy modules as part of their course work and projects.  At the end of the semester, the winners will get cash prizes.  The requirements are fairly simple and you essentially need to be a student and release a forensics-related module as open source.   Full details can be found here: 

    http://www.basistech.com/digital-forensics/autopsy/autopsy-for-educators/student-development-contest/

We expect that Python support will be released in September, which may enable more students to get involved.  The benefit of writing Autopsy modules is that it handles lots of the data processing for you.  It deals with disk images, logical files, etc. and the student can then focus on things like parsing file formats and detecting steg. 

Note that this is different from the module writing challenge associated with OSDFCon, which is not limited to student involvement (and has bigger prizes). 

    http://www.basistech.com/osdfcon-contest/

brian