Re: RE: digital forensic software

[Lorenzo Nicolodi <lorenzo.nicolodi () gmail com>]

It depends on what you want to do, I suppose....

Anyway, speaking about LiveCD (which can be usefull tools), Caine and
DEFT are great tools.

For Windows (and speaking about Windows malware), you can use Win32dd
for dumping the RAM.

Hope it helps

L.


2010/2/23 ben.dexter <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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