Appendix B: Computer Forensics Resources

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GENERAL FORENSICS RESOURCES

AccessData
(http://www.accessdata.com/)

Known best for their Password Recovery Toolkit. AccessData’s site offers information about this and other security-related tools and you will find several free tools here. Also, you will find several articles and links regarding cryptography and related subjects.

Digital Intelligence, Inc.
(http://www.digitalintel.com/)

Digital Intelligence designs and builds computer forensic software and hardware. They also offer free forensic utility software for law enforcement.

Fred Cohen & Associates (ForensiX)
[http://all.net/]

This site is full of network security and information warfare articles and white papers. Fred Cohen is one of the most recognized, respected, and requested names in information protection today. Mr. Cohen has created a comprehensive forensic examination tool called ForensiX for the Linux platform. Information about ForensiX is provided on this site.

Guidance Software
(http://www.guidancesoftware.com
/html/index.html)

The creators of the popular GUI-based forensic tool EnCase. Besides information regarding their EnCase forensic tool, there is a bulletin board with a number of forums relating to their products and computer forensics.

High-Tech Crime Investigation Association
(http://htcia.org/)

Association that promotes the exchange of data and ideas about methods relating to investigations and security among its membership.

International Association of Computer
Investigative Specialists
(http://cops.org/)

IACIS is an international, volunteer nonprofit corporation composed of law enforcement professionals dedicated to education in the field of forensic computer science.

ILook’s Home Page
(http://www.spnc.demon.
co.uk/ilook/ilook.htm)

ILook Image Investigator© is a forensic software tool. It is designed to allow an investigator to access the partition file system(s) on forensic images created by many of the best known forensic imaging systems.

Maresware—Danny Mares
(http://www.dmares.com/)

Danny Mares has been authoring computer forensic tools for law enforcement for many years. This site provides access to all his tools as well as a number of articles and papers relating to computer forensics. Information regarding Danny Mares computer forensic training can also be found on this site.

NTI—Computer Evidence Leaders
(http://www.forensics-intl.com/)

NTI has a comprehensive suite of computer forensic tools that have been used by law enforcement for many years. There are also many good articles concerning technical and legal issues surrounding computer forensics.

Porcupine.org
(http://www.porcupine.org/wietse/)

Site provided by Wietse Zweitze Venema, which provides tools and white papers focused primarily on post-mortem analysis of computer break-ins.

Sydex WWW Home Page
(http://www.sydex.com/)

Recently bought by NTI, Inc., this is the home of one of the most used Imaging tools, Safeback. Also tools for imaging and analyzing diskettes, TeleDisk, AnaDisk, and CopyQM can be found here.

The Cornoner’s Toolkit
(http://www.fish.com/tct/)

The Coroner’s Toolkit (TCT) is a collection of tools that are either oriented toward gathering or analyzing forensic data on a Unix system.

TUCOFS
(http://www.tucofs.com/tucofs.htm)

The TUCOFS Web site is a great resource of computer forensics resources and tools.

USSS&IACP Digital Evidence
Best Practices.
(http://www.infowar.com/law/00
/e-evidence/e-evidence.shtml )

The on-line version of IACP & USSS’s—Best Practices for Seizing Electronic Evidence booklet.

WetStone Technologies, Inc.
(http://www.wetstonetech.com/)

WetStone Technologies is a developer of information security technologies. This site includes some excellent technical papers concerning advancing crime scene computer forensics, timelining computer evidence, using smart cards, and digital signatures to preserve electronic evidence among others.



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Computer Forensics. Computer Crime Scene Investigation
Computer Forensics: Computer Crime Scene Investigation (With CD-ROM) (Networking Series)
ISBN: 1584500182
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 263
Authors: John R. Vacca

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