February 3rd, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua After introducing the first tool to crack Microsoft bitlocker encryption Passware company have created a new version that help user to have a full access to Mac FileVault disk encryption in a few minutes. Mac OS X has a strong utility integrated that any person can use to encrypt files with a strong encryption key [...]
October 29th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua We have posted previously about the OSForensics tool that has been in beta version, this utility is very solid in displaying all required information when conducting operating system investigation, According to PassMark Software this new version include several new features: Added icon for mounted drives in recent activity list. Fixed bug with cookie recent activity [...]
July 25th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Every organization is faced by cyber-crime this makes it not surprising that utilities for investigating incidents are rapidly developing. These tools are focused on reviewing temporary file browser that can tell a lot about user activity, search hard disk for text contained inside the documents, open and read most popular email file formats and identify [...]
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Tags: Diagnostics and Forensics, E-Discovery, Forensics, OSForensics 
No Comments » July 14th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Encrypting files and data is a good way to assure their confidentiality, but this will not prevent a third party person from detecting the encrypted storage. Â Researcher at University of Southern California and Computer Sciences from NUST in Pakistan discovered an interesting way to secure data based on steganography techniques. Presented technique allow a person [...]
May 29th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua People are using removable media storage for different tasks. Step by step they are becoming a very important part of our daily life as the amount of storage capacity, and the critical nature of the data they contain increases. Sometimes USB drives do not allow us to add or remove files, or it just may [...]
Posted in Tools Tags: Data Recovery, Diagnostics and Forensics, Forensics, pc repairs, USB, USB Flash Drive 40 Comments » September 23rd, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is an Italian GNU/Linux live distribution created as a project of Digital Forensics. CAINE is a Ubuntu based computer forensics live CD, mainly used to acquire data of a suspected criminal computer but also useful as a back up live CD. User friendly graphical interface.the distro offers a complete forensic [...]
June 6th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua If a hacker managed to compromise a server, it can be used for several things like spreading viruses, sending spam, attacking other hosts or steeling and destroying sensitive information stored on the server. Restoring a previous copy of the system will not guarantee that the incident do not happens again. That’s why it is now [...]
