Wiper, the Destructive Malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu

Kaspersky Lab publishes research resulting from the digital forensic analysis of the hard disk images obtained from the machines attacked by the Wiper - a destructive malware program attacking computer systems related to oil facilities in Western Asia. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have...

Serco: 'Sophisticated' Attack On U.S. Govt. Pension Plan Nets Info On 123k

Serco Inc., a well-known contractor working with the U.S. government, announced that it was the target of a sophisticated attack that exposed data on 123,000 civil employees of the Federal government and their families, including names, addresses and social security numbers taken from the company...

FOCA PRO 3.1 and MetaShield Protector Released

FOCA PRO 3.1 and MetaShield Protector Released Forensic FOCA New latest version of FOCA announced today, in this case a Forensic FOCA. This tool is specially created for forensic analyst, allowing them to crawl metadata from files and to create a powerful time-line of metadata. This information...

Court Ruling: Forced Decryption Violates the Fifth, Sometimes

The Eleventh Circuit of the US Court of Appeals recently handed down a landmark ruling, establishing a precedent under which the contents of an encrypted hard-drive are protected by the Fifth Amendment’s ban on self-incrimination. Briefly, the facts of the case are these: John Doe is suspected of...

BackBox Linux 2.01 released

BackBox Linux 2.01 released The BackBox team is proud to announce the release 2.01 of BackBox Linux.The new release include features such as Ubuntu 11.04, Linux Kernel 2.6.38 and Xfce 4.8.0. The ISO images 32bit & 64bit can be downloaded from the following location: What's new System upgrade...

NetworkMiner 1.1 - Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) Released

NetworkMiner 1.1 - Network Forensic Analysis Tool NFAT Released NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool NFAT for Windows. NetworkMiner can be used as a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool in order to detect operating systems, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. without putting...

NetworkMiner 1.1 - Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) Released

NetworkMiner 1.1 - Network Forensic Analysis Tool NFAT Released NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool NFAT for Windows. NetworkMiner can be used as a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool in order to detect operating systems, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. without putting...

BackBox Linux 2 released

BackBox Linux 2 released The BackBox team is proud to announce the release of BackBox. Linux 2.BackBox 2 features the following upstream components: Ubuntu 11.04, Linux Kernel 2.6.38 and Xfce 4.8. BackBox is an Ubuntu-based distribution developed to perform penetration tests and security...

Matriux Krypton security distribution Released

Matriux Krypton security distribution Released The Matriux is a fully featured security distribution consisting of a bunch of powerful, open source and free tools that can be used for various purposes including, but not limited to, penetration testing, ethical hacking, system and network...

viaExtract - Forensic tool for Android devices released

viaExtract - Forensic tool for Android devices released Android Forensics is now easier, faster and more powerful than ever. viaForensics has released viaExtract – Android Logical, a powerful analysis and reporting tool for Android smart phones and devices.Expanding on our popular AFLogical...

Sony Apologizes, Offers $1 Million Insurance After Hacking !

Sony Corp. 6758 Chairman Howard Stringer apologized and offered U.S. customers of PlayStation Network and Qriocity online entertainment services a year of free identity- theft protection after the system was crippled by hackers. Japan's biggest consumer-electronics exporter will offer a $1 millio...

Experts said - Loopholes in law let cyber criminals get away !

MUMBAI: Cyber experts say there should be proper guidelines when the court grants bail to those arrested under the Information Technology IT Act and fast-track courts for cyber-related cases will help proper convictions. Procedures currently followed to grant bail in cyber cases are similar to...

Xplico v0.6.1 - Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT)

"The goal of Xplico is extract from an internet traffic capture the applications data contained. For example, from a pcap file Xplico extracts each email POP, IMAP, and SMTP protocols, all HTTP contents, each VoIP call SIP, FTP, TFTP, and so on. Xplico isn't a network protocol analyzer. Xplico is...

Xplico 0.5.7 Cross Site Scripting

Xplico v0.5.7 add.ctp Remote XSS Vulnerability Title: Xplico v0.5.7 add.ctp Remote XSS Vulnerability Type: Remote Impact: Cross-Site Scripting Release Date: 02.07.2010 Release mode: Coordinated release Summary ======= The goal of Xplico is extract from an internet traffic capture the applications...

Free COFEE Helps Law Enforcement Forensics

Microsoft has announced plans to give away free versions of its COFEE Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor utility to help law enforcement agencies in cyber-crime investigations. COFEE uses digital forensic technologies to help investigators gather evidence of live computer activity at the...

The Reality Behind SQL Injection Attacks

TORONTO — The frequency and scope of SQL injection attacks has exploded in the last year or two, with thousands of legitimate Web sites having been compromised and used to serve malware or further Web exploits. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there are some remarkably effective...

Guidance EnCase Enterprise uses weak authentication to identify target machines

Overview Guidance Software's EnCase Enterprise uses IP authentication to identify target machines. An attacker may be able to provide the EnCase SAFE server with a disk image from a different machine than an investigator requested. Description Guidance Software's EnCase Enterprise allows...

iso9660handler.txt

Good morning, There appears to be a fair number of kernel-level range checking flaws in ISO9660 filesystem handler and Rock Ridge / Juliet extensions in Linux up to and including 2.6.11. These bugs range from DoS conditions to potentially exploitable memory corruption - all this whenever a...

Linux ISO9660 handling flaws

Good morning, There appears to be a fair number of kernel-level range checking flaws in ISO9660 filesystem handler and Rock Ridge / Juliet extensions in Linux up to and including 2.6.11. These bugs range from DoS conditions to potentially exploitable memory corruption - all this whenever a...