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 [...]
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. 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 [...]
June 10th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Xplico is a project released under GPL that decodes packet captures (PCAP), extracting the likes of email content (POP, IMAP, and SMTP protocols), all HTTP content, VoIP calls (SIP), IM chats, FTP, TFTP, and many others. It can be used on platforms with an embedded ARM core processor or typical multi-core servers, making optimal use [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Tools Tags: Forensics, network discovery, Network Monitoring, open source, XPLICO 51 Comments » 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 » October 17th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Office Document that we create and use may include not only Metadata information but also some necessary and very useful information. From the security point of view it may contain even sensitive information. The following are some examples of metadata that may be stored in your documents: 1. Your name 2. Document revision, 3. Your [...]
Posted in Forensics, Privacy & data protection Tags: Forensics, Metadata, Microsoft, MS Office 7 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 [...]
