Linux speeds up computer forensics for cops
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| Australian university students have developed a Linux-based data forensics
| tool to help police churn through a growing backlog of computer-related
| criminal investigations.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Linux-speeds-up-computer-forensics-for-cops/0,130061733,339286557,00.htm?feed=rss
Related:
FBI requests spawn network forensics startup
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| Net/FSE, which stands for Network Forensic Search Engine, is Linux-based
| server software that provides a Web interface for network managers to easily
| see an analytical profile of host-to-host activity based on NetFlow router
| data as well as log information related to the organization's firewall,
| intrusion-detection systems and security-information management.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2113131704&rid=-50
Notes on Vista forensics
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| The problems are not only related to forensic software, however, and
| while some may be addressed with a simple driver update others may
| be considered even more fundamental as Scott A Moulton of Forensic
| Strategy Services, LLC. explains: "I still have major problems
| mounting large drives under Vista. I use many 1 terabyte or 2
| terabyte drives and Vista is absolutely worthless on these drives -
| I'm lucky if Vista does not actually mess the drive up. Deleting
| files is a nightmare and sometimes takes days. Just simply copying
| files is so slow it is unbearable.
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| "I received quite a few responses from people who have had similar
| issues and it seems that DRM [Digital Rights Management] may be the
| most probable cause. They've found that Vista tries to check each
| file to see if there is a protection flag on it or not before even
| deleting the file."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/16/vista_forensics_2/page3.html
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| Vista—Microsoft’s latest operating system—may prove to be most
| appropriately named, especially for those seeking evidence of how a
| computer was used.
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http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/jy13tkjasn.html
How to break forensics software
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| One of the problems they found was that EnCase didn't like mangled MBRs, and
| from this they noticed that Linux and EnCase handled file systems in a
| completely different way. If you make a directory loop manually, EnCase hides
| all the files from that point on while Linux can see it just fine. Similarly,
| if you make a deeply nested directory, thousands deep with no other children,
| EnCase crashes. Both can be used to hide things, and both will be fixed in a
| near future revision.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41616
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