Binary File Descriptor Library (libbfd) - Out-of-Bounds Crash

Binary File Descriptor Library libbfd - Out-of-Bounds Crash Many shell users, and certainly a lot of the people working in computer forensics or other fields of information security, have a habit of running /usr/bin/strings on binary files originating from the Internet. Their understanding is tha...

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...

CVE-2012-5619

The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." dotfile file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5619

The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." dotfile file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame...

CVE-2012-5619

The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." dotfile file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5619

The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." dotfile file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." dotfile file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame...

CVE-2012-5619

The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." dotfile file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame...

CVE-2012-5619

Summary (CVE-2012-5619) The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.0.1 fails to properly handle "." (dotfile) entries on FAT and other non-reserved-name filesystems, enabling local attackers to obscure forensic activity (e.g., Flame’s demonstration). Connected documents corroborate this dotfile handling issue and it...

CVE-2012-5619

The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." dotfile file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame...

Forensics Session Takeaways from Day 2

Day two of the PCI Community Meeting presented an array of security topics ranging from best practices, EMV, security awareness, and more. I had the pleasure of sitting in on a forensics presentation, which leveraged information from a variety of industry leaders and provided valuable insight int...

Vulnerabilities in Android Apps That Allow Intercept of Messages, Photos Outlined

Researchers from the University of New Haven have taken to Youtube this week to publicize vulnerabilities in a dozen Android apps, including Instagram, Vine and OKCupid. Researchers at the University of New Haven’s Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group UNHcFREG have chosen to disclose the...

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...

HoneyDrive 3 - The Premier Honeypot Linux Distro

HoneyDrive is the premier honeypot Linux distro. It is a virtual appliance OVA with Xubuntu Desktop 12.04.4 LTS edition installed. It contains over 10 pre-installed and pre-configured honeypot software packages such as Kippo SSH honeypot, Dionaea and Amun malware honeypots, Honeyd low-interaction...

Honeypot Linux Distro: HoneyDrive

HoneyDrive is the premier honeypot Linux distro. It is a virtual appliance OVA with Xubuntu Desktop 12.04.4 LTS edition installed. It contains over 10 pre-installed and pre-configured honeypot software packages such as Kippo SSH honeypot, Dionaea and Amun malware honeypots, Honeyd low-interaction...

Undocumented iOS Features left Hidden Backdoors Open in 600 Million Apple Devices

A well known iPhone hacker and forensic scientist has unearthed a range of undocumented and hidden functions in Apple iOS mobile operating system that make it possible for a hacker to completely bypass the backup encryption on iOS devices and can steal large amounts of users’ personal data withou...

OWASP iOSForensic - Tool to help in forensics analysis on iOS

OWASP iOSForensic is a python tool to help in forensics analysis on iOS. It get files, logs, extract sqlite3 databases and uncompress .plist files in xml. OWASP iOSForensic provides: Application's files Conversion of .plist files in XML Extract all databases Conversion of binary cookies...

Heartbleed OpenSSL - Information Leak Exploit (1)

No description provided by source. / CVE-2014-0160 heartbleed OpenSSL information leak exploit ========================================================= This exploit uses OpenSSL to create an encrypted connection and trigger the heartbleed leak. The leaked information is returned within encrypted...

DFLabs PTK <= 1.0 - Local Command Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. ==================================================== Security Research Advisory Vulnerability name: DFLabs PTK Local Command Execution Vulnerability Advisory number: LC-2008-07 Advisory URL: http://www.ikkisoft.com...