The Mad Scientist Association is a group of DFIR professionals dedicated to research and development to benefit the entire community. Our projects are based on derived from real-world forensic investigations, keeping us focused on issues relevant to the community.

Our areas of focus include:

• Investigation of digital artifacts to improve understanding and usefulness in forensic examinations
• Development of open-source tools to assist in forensic examinations and analysis

All projects and publications are distributed with open-source licenses.

Current Areas of Focus

• Microsoft Office telemetry
• Artifact recovery from pagefile

Newest Posts

• 2018-10-19: Microsoft Office Telemetry: Tracking Your Every Move. Learn about the treasure trove of information that Office Telemetry makes available to forensic examiners and incident responders.

Contact Us

To contribute to our projects, visit our repositories on Github.

You can also e-mail us.