Anti-forensic tools

[pabgames at gmail.com (Cody Ray)]

On the Linux side, Bleachbit seems to be rather promising.  The author adds
new applications about every week and posts on Freshmeat.net



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>      I'm planing another class for the local ISSA (and hope to get some
> Infragard and OWASP folks there). The topic this time is Anti-forensics. I
> plan to cover a few categories of tools:
>
> 0. Show simple tools to see what's been going on
> Places files are stored
> effect of hibernate and page file
> defrag issues (I assume this can leave remnants behind in slack space of
> files that defrag moved, so if ta defrag happened just before you wipe a
> file you may not really get all of the data)
> Filecarving with Photorec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
>
> 1. Selective track covering tools
> CCleaner  http://www.ccleaner.com/
> CleanAfterMe http://nirsoft.net/utils/clean_after_me.html
>
> 2. Delete f***ing everything!!!/Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be
> sure
> Secure Erase http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml (Scott
> Moulton told me this uses built in ATA commands to wipe even bad sectors)
> DBAN http://www.dban.org/
>
> 3. Encryption
>  Truecrypt
>
> 4. System configs/don't leave traks in the first place
> Wipe swap file on shutdown
> Browsers and incognito mode
> Portable apps/VMs from encrypted volumes (does anyone know how much of the
> Host OS's swap is used by VMWare and the like?)
>
>
> Any more ideas? Any better "Selective track covering tools" then the ones I
> mentioned in section 1?
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
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