[BackBox Linux] Version 3.0

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop, and designed for performing penetration testing, incident response, computer forensics, and intelligence gathering. It uses the Xfce desktop environment, and is developed by Raffaele Forte and a small but dedicated team. This release includ...

[DEFT 7.2] Computer Forensic live system

DEFT 7.2 released its last 32bit release but we will support bugfix until 2020. DEFT is a new concept of Computer Forensic live system that uses LXDE as desktop environment and thunar file manager and mount manager as tool for device management. It is a very easy to use system that includes an...

Portable Multi-boot Security Suite: Katana

Katana is a portable multi-boot security suite which brings together many of today’s best security distributions and portable applications to run off a single Flash Drive. It includes distributions which focus on Pen-Testing, Auditing, Forensics, System Recovery, Network Analysis, and Malware...

Information of Nearly 4,000 Beth Israel Patients at Risk in Stolen Laptop Incident

The information of nearly 4,000 patients at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BIDMC may have been leaked according to a report from the Boston Globe over the weekend. A laptop was stolen from the Harvard-associated teaching hospital on May 22 that could yield the incomplete medical...

Sql injection

SQL injection vulnerability in forensics/baseqrymain.php in AlienVault Open Source Security Information Management OSSIM 3.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the time00 parameter...

The hackerproof password? Tips and advice on password management

Having some security expert tell you that you should be creating strong passwords that are unique per account and change frequently is like your dentist telling you that you should floss morning, night and after consuming any dentally dangerous foods. The majority of us say, "yeah right". The tru...

Forensic FOCA - Power of Metadata in digital forensics

Forensic FOCA - Power of Metadata in digital forensics Most of the e ort in today's digital forensics community lies in the retrieval and analysis of existing information from computing systems. Metadata is data about data. Metadata plays a number of important roles in computer forensics. It can...

Navy Hires Contractor to Data-Mine Gaming Consoles

The U.S. Navy recently hired an outside contractor, Obscure Technologies, to develop computer forensics tools capable of analyzing network traffic and stored data on gaming consoles. The contract, valued at $177,237.50, calls on Obscure Technologies to create hardware and software tools that can ...

PTK 1.0.5 Cross Site Scripting / Unrestricted Access

Exploit Title: Multiple PTK DFlabs failures to restrict access to sensitive data Author: Anonymous Software Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ptk-forensics/files/ptk-1.x/ptk-1.0.5/ptk-1.0.5.tar.gz/download Version: 1.0.5 Tested on: Ubuntu --A-- Introduction PTK DFlabs forensics is an...

Can Google Be Forced By the FBI to Unlock Users' Phones?

Those multi-gesture passcode locks on Android phones that give users and their spouses fits apparently present quite a challenge for the FBI as well. Frustrated by a swipe passcode on the seized phone of an alleged gang leader, FBI officials have requested a search warrant that would force Google...

Bugtraq-I : Distribution for Pentesting and forensics

Bugtraq-I : Distribution for Pentesting and forensics Bugtraq system offers the most comprehensive distribution, optimal, stable and automatic security to date. Bugtraq is a distribution based on the 2.6.38 kernel has a wide range of penetration and forensic tools. Bugtraq can be installed from a...

Call for Paper - DEF CON Rajasthan March 2012 Meet

Call for Paper - DEF CON Rajasthan March 2012 Meet DEF CON Rajasthan - March 2012 Jaipur Meet, Call For Papers is now officially Open and will close on March 10, 2012. DEF CON Rajasthan DC91141 is a DEF CON Registered group of people interested in exploring technology and it implications in...

New Tool Cracks Apple iWork Passwords

The Russian software company, ElcomSoft, has developed a tool capable of recovering iWork passwords from Apple Numbers, Pages, and Keynote applications. According to ElcomSoft, ‘Distributed Password Recovery’ is the first commercially available tool with this capacity. The tool works by performin...

Data Breach Affects Two Million NY Customers, State Commission to Investigate

The New York State Public Service Commission announced yesterday they’ll be looking into a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of almost two million customers to unknown attackers. An employee from a software consulting firm contracted by New York State Electric & Gas NYSEG...

Book Review : Defense against the Black Arts

Book Review : Defense against the Black Arts How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It Ben Rothke write a review of a new book on hacking "Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It". Authors are Jesse Varsalone, Matthew Mcfadden,...

Don't just 'delete,' – DELETE!

Many of EFF’s recommendations involve copying data onto an external device and then removing it from the device you’ll be carrying across the border. When doing this, you will want to make sure that the data you delete is actually gone. Simply pressing the ‘delete’ key or emptying the desktop was...

New Version of REMnux Malware-Analysis Linux Distribution Released

A new version of the REMnux specialized Linux distribution has been released, and it now includes a group of new tools for reverse-engineering malware. The new additions include a tool for memory forensics as well as one for analyzing potentially malicious PDFs. REMnux was first released last yea...

Squiz Matrix User Account Enumeration

Squiz Matrix - User Account Enumeration http://www.osisecurity.com.au/advisories/squiz-matrix-user-enumeration Release Date: 12-Dec-2011 Software: Squiz - Matrix http://www.squiz.net/ "Squiz Matrix delivers highly flexible and robust business integration engine and application development tools. ...

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ?

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ? If you'd rather keep your data private, take heart: disk encryption is a lot harder to break than techno-thriller movies and TV shows make it out to be, to the chagrin of some branches of law enforcement. MrSeb writes with word of a...

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ?

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ? If you'd rather keep your data private, take heart: disk encryption is a lot harder to break than techno-thriller movies and TV shows make it out to be, to the chagrin of some branches of law enforcement. MrSeb writes with word of a...