SEANux — Syrian Electronic Army To Release its Own Linux-based Distribution

Lots of Linux distributions are offered free of cost on the Internet by a number of companies, non-commercial organizations and by many individuals as well, and now, the notorious Syrian Electronic Army SEA has announced their own Linux distribution known as SEANux. A Linux distribution is a...

CAINE 6.0 "Dark Matter" - Distribution with a complete forensic environment

CAINE Computer Aided INvestigative Environment is an Italian GNU/Linux live distribution created as a project of Digital Forensics. Currently the project manager is Nanni Bassetti. CAINE offers a complete forensic environment that is organized to integrate existing software tools as software...

Digital Forensics Toolkit: DEFT

DEFT acronym for Digital Evidence & Forensics Toolkit is a distribution made for Computer Forensics, with the purpose of running live on systems without tampering or corrupting devices hard disks, pendrives, etc… connected to the PC where the boot process takes place. The system is based on GNU...

Passivedns - A network sniffer that logs all DNS server replies for use in a passive DNS setup

A tool to collect DNS records passively to aid Incident handling, Network Security Monitoring NSM and general digital forensics. PassiveDNS sniffes traffic from an interface or reads a pcap-file and outputs the DNS-server answers to a log file. PassiveDNS can cache/aggregate duplicate DNS answers...

[Autopsy] Digital Investigation Analysis

Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from your camera's memory...

[The Sleuth Kit] Library and collection of command line tools to investigate disk images

The Sleuth Kit is a C++ library and collection of open source file system forensics tools that allow you to, among other things, view allocated and deleted data from NTFS, FAT, FFS, EXT2, Ext3, HFS+, and ISO9660 images. The Sleuth Kit® TSK is a library and collection of command line tools that...

Detecting and Preventing Compromises in Retail Payment Systems

Information Weeks Matthew Swartz published an article on the recently- confirmed payment card breaches at Target, Nieman Marcus and three other unnamed retailers. This article and many others reveal that these attacks involve sophisticated malware and some even suggest it is the work of the same...

National Security threats to be detailed at 'The Hackers Conference' 2013 | #THC2013

The recent "disconcerting" reports that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an all new chapter in the cyber security space. The revelation that the Indian embassy in the US was among the list of 38 diplomatic missions which were being spied upon by American...

National Security threats to be detailed at 'The Hackers Conference' 2013 | #THC2013

The recent “disconcerting" reports that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an all new chapter in the cyber security space. The revelation that the Indian embassy in the US was among the list of 38 diplomatic missions which were being spied upon by American...

Massive 167Gbps DDoS attacks against Banking and Financial Institutions

DDoS attackers attempted to bring down an Banking services earlier this week using one of the largest Distributed denial of service attack using DNS reflection technique. Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service DDoS protection services, announced that it has successfully...

[Canari Framework] Maltego Rapid Transform Development Framework

Canari is a rapid transform development framework for Maltego written in Python. The original focus of Canari was to provide a set of transforms that would aid in the execution of penetration tests, and vulnerability assessments. Ever since it's first prototype, it has become evident that the...

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...

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,...

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...

Registry Decoder - Digital Forensics Tool

Registry Decoder - Digital Forensics Tool Digital forensics deals with the analysis of artifacts on all types of digital devices. One of the most prevalent analysis techniques performed is that of the registry hives contained in Microsoft Windows operating systems. Registry Decoder was developed...

Registry Decoder - Digital Forensics Tool

Registry Decoder - Digital Forensics Tool Digital forensics deals with the analysis of artifacts on all types of digital devices. One of the most prevalent analysis techniques performed is that of the registry hives contained in Microsoft Windows operating systems. Registry Decoder was developed...

GFI SandBox - Powerful automated malware analysis

GFI SandBox - Powerful automated malware analysis GFI SandBox™ formerly CWSandbox is an industry leading dynamic malware analysis tool. It gives you the power to analyze virtually any Windows application or file including infected: Office documents, PDFs, malicious URLs, Flash ads and custom...

Report: NSA Looks Into NASDAQ Hack

The National Security Agency has joined in a cyber forensic investigation off a major attack on NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. which operates the NASDAQ stock exchange, according to a report on Wednesday by Bloomberg. As reported by Threatpost, the tech-heavy stock exchange was discovered to be infiltrat...

Digital Forensics Framework v0.9.0 latest version download !

"DFF Digital Forensics Framework is a simple but powerful tool with a flexible module system which will help you in your digital forensics works, including file recovery due to error or crash, evidence research and analysis, etc. DFF provides a robust architecture and some handy modules." This is...