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Re: digital forensic software


From: Adam Mooz <adam.mooz () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:40:59 -0500

On 2010-02-22, at 8:46 PM, ben.dexter () act gov au wrote:

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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Don't forget about Backtrack 4 as a tool for forensics...

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