Mobius Forensic Toolkit v0.5.8 Released

Mobius Forensic Toolkit v0.5.8 Released Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined using XML files for easy integration with other tool...

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind British police say they have made a significant arrest in their investigation into hacking attacks on international business and intelligence agencies. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have arrested a...

NIIT Technologies GIS subsidiary's server hacked by Tigers of Indian Cyber (TIC)

NIIT Technologies GIS subsidiary's server hacked by Tigers of Indian Cyber TIC A server belonging to NIIT GIS Limited, an NIIT Technologies subsidiary, was compromised last week using a SQL injection attack by a hacking group calling itself the 'Tigers of Indian Cyber' TIC. TIC posted the...

Hashbot - Forensic web tool to acquire and validate the web pages !

What is hashbot? Hashbot is a forensic web tool to acquire and validate, over time, the status of an individual web page or web document. Feature : Acquire Follow these steps to acquire a web document: 1. Insert the document's URL ie: https://www.evilwebpage.com/image.jpg or...

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...

PlayStation Network Security Update !

On Tuesday, April 26 Sony shared that some information that was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. Once again, Sony'd like to apologize to the many users who were inconvenienced and worried about this situation. Sony want to state this again giv...

Sony Darkens Another Network As Breach Investigation Widens

Sony Corp. took further steps to contain a serious data breach: temporarily shuttering the Website of Sony Online Entertainment and station.com, another of the technology company’s online gaming networks, even as it signaled the slow return of its PlayStation Network to operation. In a statement ...

Audit Finds FBI Doing a Poor Job with Cyber Investigations

A U.S. Department of Justice audit of the FBI’s ability to investigate cyber intrusions concluded that the agency is not doing an adequate job. The audit, which reviewed 36 field agents in 10 FBI offices across the country found that the agency’s cyber investigations are hampered by difficulties...

Researchers Propose New Steganography System for Hiding Data

A group of researchers has developed a new application that can hide sensitive data on a hard drive without encrypting it or leaving any obvious signs that the data is present. The new steganography system relies on the old principle of hiding valuables in plain sight. Developed by a group of...

fileinfo-gui - Forensic tool for file information !

fileinfo-gui - Forensic tool for file information ! A GUI forensic tool for Ubuntu Linux designed to extract information from files. This is a beta version! Meta Data Information String ASCII and Unicode Hash MD5 and SHA1 Detect and Show PE32 Information Detect and Extract Thumbnail from JPEG fil...

HBGary: Silence, Sloppy Reporting Hyped Anonymous Hack

After months of almost total silence, security firm HBGary issued a statement to counter what it claims were inaccurate media reports about a February security breach that spilled thousands of e-mail messages onto the Internet. The letter, published on HBGary’s Web site and positioned as an “Open...

Synergy 1.4 Protocol Cleartext Weakness Proof Of Concept

Exploit Title: Synergy Protocol cleartext weakness PoC Date:April 5th 2011 Author: Sw1tCh Software Link: http://synergy-foss.org/ Version: 1.4 -= Info =- Synergy is Free and Open Source Software that lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers, where each computer has...

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...

Sophisticated Attack Yields Data On IEEE Members

IEEE, the world’s leading society for technical professionals, has warned some 800 members that their credit card and personal information may have been stolen. The FBI has been notified of the breach. The group disclosed the November, 2010 breach in a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General...

Mobius Forensic Toolkit v0.5.7 released !

Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined using XML files for easy integration with other tool. Changelog Six news registry reports were...

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...

Kerala cyber police closing in on software theft culprits !

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5 IANS The cyber wing of the Kerala Police Wednesday claimed it had got vital clues about the theft of software source codes and intellectual property data from a Kochi-based IT company. The investigation is progressing on the right track, V.K. Ajith Mohan of the police...

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...

DEFT Linux v6 RC - New Release Download

"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 excellent hardware detection and the best free and open source applications...

Dissecting the ZeroAccess Rootkit

The ZeroAccess rootkit isn’t the most well-known or closely watched piece of malware in recent history, but, as an extremely detailed new analysis of the program shows, it is a perfect example of the kind of sophisticated malware that attack crews are using to maintain persistent, silent access t...