See computer forensics.
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- Gallery: Tools for CSI cybercrime
- Ever wondered how you catch the world's most high tech criminals? This photo gallery gives you a tour of the tools used digital forensics. by Andy Smith
- Image galleries 2008-08-14
- Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3
- The BackTrack LiveCD provides over 300 different tools that can be used by security professionals or system administrators. It includes tools for penetration testing, wireless cracking, network mapping, information gathering, vulnerability identification, forensics, and reverse engineering. Vincent Danen tells you how to create a portable version on a USB keychain.
- Download resources 2008-08-11
- On GIFARs
- Ever since Rob McMillan of IDG published a story giving a preview of our coming Black Hat talk, specifically a preview of the portion of our talk related to GIFARs, media coverage of the research has swirled a bit out of control and there's been some misconceptions. My co-presenter John...
- Blog posts 2008-08-02
- NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship
- NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonshipArticle ToneI'm not sure why the author has such a negative of using cadavers that were donated to science to improve the safety of the capsule. The author pointed out that not all of the experiments or papers relating to the safety of...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects
- Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- JDAFTS (zip)
- JDAFTS, which stands for Jones Dykstra & Associates Forensic Tool Suite, includes case data management applications that extend beyond the capabilities of currently-available forensic software applications. JDAFTS is designed for computer forensics, corporate, government, and law enforcement investigators as well as universities. Easy to use, the tool suite allows forensics...
- Software downloads 2008-07-04
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you
- And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- How to recover GPcode encrypted files?
- Got backups? In response to the security community's comments on the futile attempt to directly attack the 1024 bit RSA keys using distributed computing, Kaspersky Labs are now reasonably recommending that affected end users lacking backups of their encrypted data, take advantage of data recovery tools : Currently, it's...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Black Hat '08 preview webcast on its way
- Ladies and gents, For those who hadn't heard, I will be presenting at Black Hat Vegas '08 this year with Rob Carter, John Heasman, and Billy Rios. Our presentation is called "The Internet is Broken: Beyond document.cookie - Extreme Client Side Attacks", which may sound like a...
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- Do Congressmen's charges of Chinese hacking hold water?
- InfoWorld notes that the congressmen who claimed China hacked their computers probably have scant evidence of the charges. "It's so very hard to conclude that something came from someplace if all you're going from is an IP address," said Marcus Sachs, director of the SANS Internet Storm...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- New fingerprint detection technology
- Researchers at the University of Leicester, UK, working with Northamptonshire Police, have found a new technique for identifying fingerprints on metal. This method will enable forensic scientists to 'visualise fingerprints' even after the print itself has been removed. What is even more interesting is that this technology could 'enhance --...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- A new career: isotope designer
- According to a Michigan State University MSU news release, 'Made-to-order isotopes hold promise on science's frontier,' nuclear physicists can now start a new career as isotope designers. These scientists can build specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies. The lead researcher says this approach...
- Blog posts 2008-05-10
- TIBCO proactive management approach enables SOA performance delivery as a managed service
- The business of running IT for major organizations has been moving in a maturity model direction for some time. ITIL, IT service management methods, various compliance measures, and the seemingly never-ending mantra for IT to do more with less are behind these necessary trends. Yet SOA brings...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there's no Windows "back door"
- Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there's no Windows "back door"What do you expect?From the loosers at ValleyWag and the rest of the SV echochamber?They're like Hillary Clinton. Screeching and screeching lies until people believe they are true.I was actually expecting a refutationAll you've really said is that law enforcement doesn't need a...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there's no Windows "back door"
- Techdirt's Mike Masnick is usually pretty reliable, but he completely blew it today, hitting the publish button on one of the sloppiest, most inflammatory stories I've seen in a long time: Microsoft Gives Vista Backdoor Keys To The Police It's long been assumed that Microsoft has...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- SearchSOA.com names Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Suite 'Product of Year'
- Nexaweb Technologies, the application platform provider, just keeps piling on the accolades. Its latest achievement is the Product of the Year award for its Enterprise Web Suite from SearchSOA.com. The gold-status award for the Burlington, Mass. Company, came in the RIA /Composite Application Assembly category, and was...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- The next big thing? Crimeware-as-a-service
- Finjan says Crimeware-as-a-Service CaaS is becoming an increasing problem and the ability of law enforcement to track malicious hackers will become increasingly hampered. On Monday, Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center MCRC released its first quarter Web security trends report registration required and highlighted CaaS. finjan's release is...
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- That's a QED - on "odd internet risks"
- Back on February 12th of this year I had this bit in my blog for the day -dedicated the proposition that bad guys can abuse your internet access for their own purposes: To illustrate one of the worst but less obvious risks...
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
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