Digital Forensics Research

General

http://www.e-evidence.info - The Electronic Evidence Info Center

http://www1.cj.msu.edu/~academic/forenlinks.html - Forensic Science and Law Enforcement Links

http://www.computer-forensics.net/ - Center for Computer Forensics

http://www.cybersciencelab.com/_public/index.html - Cyber Science Lab

http://www.nw3c.org/ - National White Collar Crime Center

http://www.ectaskforce.org/ - Electronic Crimes Task Force

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/research/forensics/ -  The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Legal

Ethics
http://www.stltechnews.com/featured.htm - article by Thomas Smith (can reach him on LinkedIn)

E-Discovery
http://www.ediscoveryresourcecenter.com/

Open Source Digital Forensics Tools - The Legal Argument - http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~carrier/forensics/docs/opensrc_legal.pdf

Internet Resources on Technology Law

http://www.bitlaw.com

Legal and court-related sites

http://www.ih200.net/ira/legal/htm

Glossary of terms - http://www.uscourts.gov/library/glossary.html

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure at Cornell Law School - http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure at Cornell Law School  - http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/

Rules Concerning the discovery of "electronically stored information  - affect rule s 16, 26, 33, 34, 37, 35-  http://uscourts.gov/rules/newrules6.html#cv0804

Pending Ammendments - http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/#juudicial0905 and http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/comment2005/CVAug04.pdf

Exlusionary Rules (Federal Rules of Evidence - 1975) as it applies to e-evidence

http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre - Legal Information Institute (LII)

Cybrary - The World Criminal Justice Directory -  http://ww.talkjustice.com/cybrary.asp

Daubert Test for Expert Witness - http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-102.ZS.html

Daubert in a Nut Shell - http://www.daubertontheweb.com/Chapter_2.htm

Forensic-evidence excluded - http://www.forensic-evidence.com/site/ID/Cole_junksci.html

ECPA (Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986 - http://www.usiia.org/legis/ecpa.html

CFAA - http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/search/display.html?terms=1030&url=/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001030----000-.html

US Patriot Act of 2001 - www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/PatriotAct.htm

http://www.cybercrime.gov/PatriotAct.htm

Fact Sheet - http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2005/April/05_opa_163.htm

Warrantless Electronic Surverllance Issues

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1216-01.htm

http://opensocietypolicycenter.org

http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2006/ag_speech_060206.html

http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/documents/archive_n.html

Best Practices for Seizing Electronic Evidence

The U.S. Secret Service's http://www.secretservice.gov/electronic_evidence.shtml

The DOJ's "Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations" (HTML | PDF) "Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders" (DOJ)
"Forensic Examination of Digital Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement" (NIJ)
The National Center for Forensic Science "Digital Evidence in the Courtroom: A Guide for Preparing Digital Evidence for Courtroom Presentation" (draft)
The Internet Engineering Task Force's "Guidelines for Evidence Collection and Archiving" (RFC 3227)
"Computer Crime & Legal Issues" section of GCK's Cybercrime and Cyberforensics-related URLs.

Digital Inteligence

http://www.digitalintelligence.com/index.php

Recover Deleted Messages in Outlook

Trick Outlook into re-indexing deleted messages - http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/recover_deleted.htm

Viewer for Outlook messages .msg files - http://www.redsofts.com/soft/824/39883/Viewer_for_MS_Outlook_Messages.html

MS Word File Headers

http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm - as cited in Computer Forensics by Volonimo

MAC

http://www.blackbagtech.com

http://www.forensicfocus.com/apple-mac-os-x-property-list - Dennis Browning paper

Windows and Linux

Enforcement and Forensic Examiner's Introduction to Linux- http://www.linuxleo.com/

Autopsy, Sleuth Kit and dtSearch - www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy

Encase - http://www.guidancesoftware.com

FTK (Forensic Toolkit) from Accesss Data - http://www.accessdata.com

File Chaining and FAT Cluster Alocation - http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/clustChaining-c.html

Brian Carrier - http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~carrier/

ProDiscover Remote Agent - http://toorcon.techpathways.com/uploads/RemoteAgentUseAndTroubleshooting.pdf

DD Multiple DD Files Problem - http://toorcon.techpathways.com/cs/forms/thread/97.aspx

Download Messier Case .pds file for assignment #7 - Messier_DD_Image.pds

Hex Editors

WinHex - http://www.x-ways.net

UltraEditor - http://www.ultraedit.com/

Computer Forensic Tool Testing Programs

http://www.cftt.nist.gov/disk_imaging.htm

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/topics/ecrime/cftt.htm

Brian Carrier - http://dftt.sourceforge.net/

Training

Canegie-Mellon CERT - https://www.vte.cert.org/vteweb/

Forms

Chain of Custody - http://csoonline.com/read/120105/sample_chain_custody.pdf

Test Files

Floppy Images for classroom use only - df/20070928.EVIDENCE.zip

VIDEO_CD.zip FOR240 Videos

http://www.cfreds.nist.gov/ - NIST

Messier_DD_Image.pds

MS E-maial Files.E01

IvanDisk.E01

Opening Different File Formats

http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search/file+formats.html

Partition Type Identifier

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html

How to write protect USB devices

White paper from Access Data - http://www.accessdata.com/common/pagedetail.aspx?PageCode=whitepapers

Image Memory

dd.exe if=\.\PhysicalMemory of=x:\path\123.dd bs=4k conv=noerror
http://seclists.org/basics/2006/Dec/0097.html

Cybercrime

Inside a Modern Malware Distribution System
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2239276,00.asp

 

 

This page was last updated 04 October 2007
This site managed Cristian Balan