Re: [inbox] Re: Reacting to a server compromise

["Gaurav Kumar" <gaurav () e2-labs com>]

i guess one may use encase (http://www.guidancesoftware.com/products/software/encaseforensic/index.shtm)
as the url says that "Validated by trial and appellate court rulings"


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From: "Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>
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Subject: RE: [inbox] Re: [Full-disclosure] Reacting to a server compromise


> Negative.  Ghost is as capapble of making a bitwise copy of a drive (one of
> two modes it has) as is dd in *NIX.  It is perfectly admissable in all
> courts I know, as long as it is done quickly after compromise.  Standard
> procedure (as little as there is standard in this young but quickly maturing
> field) dictates you make an immediate initial dd copy for the court.  Then
> make as many working dd's as neccessary for forensics.
>
> Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Information Security Engineer
> DP Solutions
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> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 01:38 am, Jennifer Bradley wrote:
>
> > If this happens again, I would probably make a copy of the hard drive,
> > or at the very least the log files since they can be entered as
> > evidence of a hacked box.
>
> Under most jurisdictions, an ordinary disk image produced by Norton Ghost
> etc
> using standard hardware is completely inadmissible in court, as it is
> impossible to make one without possibly compromising the integrity of the
> evidence. The police etc use specialised hardware for making such copies,
> which ensures that the disk can't have been altered.
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