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We updated the ForensiX Linux Incident Response Script. You can find the new version at

Cool stuff from Princeton researchers. They published a paper “Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys” and showed that whole disk encryption can be defeated by relatively simple methods.  They demonstrated their methods by using them to defeat three disk encryption products: BitLocker, 

I’m proud to announce, that my team published yesterday a very cool Live Response CD for Linux and Windows in cooperation with the german journal iX. It contains a brand new Linux Live Response script and a build script for your own static binaries. This Live Response Script contains also an

GetData now bundles their forensics tool MountImage Pro v2 with Virtual Forensic Computing (VFC) from MD5 Ltd. You can now mount a forensic image

I’d like to comment on PEiD. If you have to analyse an unknown binary and you like to know some details about packers, compilers and crypto features, you should give PEiD a try.

Harlan Carvey just released the FSP/FRU File Copy Client on SourceForge. The FCli is a GUI client that the investigator can use to select files to be copied from the suspect system, over to the FSP server.

Brian Kaplan from Carnegie Mellon University just released a tool called Live View. With Live View you can convert a raw dd image or physical device to a VMware virtual machine.

Arne Vidstrom from ntsecurity.nu wrote an interesting paper about problems with forensic RAM dumps from Windows XP. His summary on this topic