Re: RE: digital forensic software

[ben.dexter () act gov au]

Forensic tools are a fantastic resource when pen-testing. If you can get your hands on physical hardware (laptop, 
desktop) then in the majority of circumstances you can pull out passwords, web history, email data...all the usual 
stuff you'd expect to find in a forensic investigation, but with the capability to then use that data in a pen-testing 
capacity. Some of the commercial tools also allow networking imaging, so if you've grabbed some credentials you can 
take a complete dd image of a workstation/server physical disk or attached device (usb, etc) over the network...

* FTK Imager (Free) Easy imaging in Win environment, will do DFS shares
* Helix 3 Pro (Pay) Images most things Win/Linux
* Encase/FTK/X-Ways (Pay) Imaging/Analysis. All have advantages and disadvantages. FTK is easy to use (If you can get 
it working), need high-end hardware; Encase is very flexible, is the defacto industry standard (particularly with LE), 
but not so user friendly; X-Ways is the most cost effective and has a decent feature set.

Ben.

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