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Sleuth Kit is an open source

CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is Linux Live CD

disk image, file, or directory of files and extracts information such as credit card numbers, domains, e-mail addresses, URLs, and ZIP files.

The start screen from Windows 8 is no longer there

The difference is rather than protecting the drive as a whole each file is now protected by BitLocker, so if a file is removed from the drive it will still carry the protection that was added to it during the BitLocker process.

Trusted platform module (TPM) is still not needed to use BitLocker

Since sources are a bit tough to find in one place, I've decided to post the results here, as well as show some simple code to extract passwords from each browser's password manager.

internal structure of Plist files

Plist files are found sprinkled throughout OS X and iOS and contain the various configuration settings and other information of use to the OS and applications.

Plists are key/value pairs that are stored in either text or binary.

Can you script that so I can do that to several hundred files, he said. Don’t have to, I said…

ExifTool is a extremely powerful command line utility that has been around since 2003. It is still actively maintained and has grown to encompass so many metadata types beyond EXIF that it has well outgrown its name. It also has some very powerful formatting and processing capabilities in it, making bulk extraction of just the data you want an easy task.

produces 38 data points

A currently unpatched bug in ASUS wireless routers has been discovered whereby users inside a network can gain full administrative control, according to recent research conducted by security firm Accuvant.

This new mini DEFT distro is fully optimized for the acquisition and hashing of mass storage devices, in just 400 MB! Due DEFT Zero’s light weight and the fact that it can be loaded entirely into RAM at computer boot, it allows you virtually to turn any computer (even a really obsolete one) into a storage media cloner device.

final public BETA of DEFT Zero

Sitting on one’s butt for a major part of the day may be deadly in the long run — even with a regimen of daily exercise, researchers say.

amount of time a person sits during the day is associated with a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and death, regardless of regular exercise.

Our study finds that despite the health-enhancing benefits of physical activity, this alone may not be enough to reduce the risk for disease.”

Three common assumptions

The second assumption is a binary view on attribution: for any given case, the problem can either be solved,77 Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta famously said on the USS Intrepid, ‘the [DoD] has made significant advances in solving a problem that makes deterring cyber adversaries more complex: the difficulty of identifying the origins of an attack.’ Leon Panetta, Remarks on Cybersecurity to the Business Executives for National Security, New York City’, Washington DC: Department of Defense, 12 Oct. 2012.View all notes or not be solved.8

The third common assumption is that the attributive evidence is readily comprehensible, that the main challenge is finding the evidence itself, not analysing, enriching, and presenting it.1010 The most influential articles on intrusion analysis seem to assume that the evidence speaks for itself, as they do not focus on the problem of communicating results to a non-technical audience. The two most influential and useful contributions are the ‘Diamond Model’, see Sergio Caltagirone, Andrew Pendergast and Christopher Betz, The Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis, ADA586960 (Hanover, MD: Center for Cyber Threat Intelligence and Threat Research 5 July 2013), as well as the ‘Kill Chain’ analysis, see, Eric M. Hutchins, Michael J. Cloppert and Rohan M. Amin, Intelligence-Driven Computer Network Defense Informed by Analysis of Adversary Campaigns and Intrusion Kill Chains (Bethesda, MD: Lockheed Martin Corporation 2010).View all notes

the tactics they're using to put alleged sexual offenders in jail are sweeping up large numbers of law-abiding men, too.

they now routinely post more innocuous personal ads of adults on traditional dating sites. When men – many of them under 25 with no criminal history - respond, officers switch the bait and typically indicate their age is really 14 or 15 years old. However, sometimes the storyline isn't switched until the men, who were looking for legal love, already start falling for the undercover agent.

Officers bend rules in sex stings to boost arrest totals.