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While Nokia maintains that “Windows Phone is our smartphone platform of choice,” they appear to be pursuing plans for going after the low-end market with a Linux-based OS. Nokia is again developing a proprietary smartphone operating system after announcing this past February that it would abandon both Symbian and MeeGo in favor of [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andrew Hoog Chief Investigative Officer viaForensics Phone: +1 312-878-1100 http://viaforensics.com/contact-us Mobile forensics training sessions offered by viaForensics viaForensics will hold five mobile forensics training sessions in Mississauga, Ontario, this October. Chicago, August 22, 2011 – viaForensics will hold five mobile forensics training sessions covering Linux use in forensics, iPhone [...] “The openness of the Android operating system and the fact that it is based on Linux means that a large cadre of operating-system hackers can attempt to find vulnerabilities in the system.” In 2009, Red Hat, SuSE, and other Linux distributors fixed a major flaw that could have allowed any user to escalate [...] For some time now, I (and others) have had problems running The Sleuth Kit (TSK) on Windows Server 2003…in particular, I could not get fls to run. Here’s a post I made to the sleuth-kit list from January 2010 with some follow up discussions: http://old.nabble.com/problems-running-sleuthkit-on-Windows-Server-2003-x64-td27189560.html If you try to run it from the [...]  February 10th, 2010 by ahoog
 1 commentKristinn Gudjonsson has written an excellent timeline utility for forensics investigators call log2timeline. The power of his tool is that it will add a wide range of event inline to an existing body file so that when you are doing timeline analysis (a key component to any forensic investigation) you can see file [...] February 25th, 2009 by ahoog
2 commentsIntroduction As everyone knows, disk I/O performance is significant factor in how quickly and efficiently a forensic analyst can perform their duties. Often times, people try to through hardware at a performance issue and hope it “just works” out of the box. While there can be an increase in performance by simply buying [...] In Linux, file systems are generally mounted by root unless non-root users are given permission in the /etc/fstab file. If you are performing an analysis and need to mount a raw file system (dd image) for review, you can issue the following command as root: mount -t ntfs -o ro,loop,show_sys_files,offset=32256,umask=222 /cases/case-sense-net/tag1/tag1-img.dd /cases/fs-readonly The [...] While performing forensic testing on an 3G iPhone using the techniques outlined by Jonathan Zdziarski in his book “iPhone Forensics“, I discovered the xpwn tool (by planetbeing) pre-compiled for OS X was not up to date (missing many of the firmware bundles which contain the encryption key and initialization vectors to uncompress the [...] |
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