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Protecting the Data Evidence (by Casey Mullis)

If an item is to be used in the court of law in the United States, it has to be preserved to the best of your ability. If you want to use data evidence you have to protect it as if it were a murder scene or any other type of crime scene. Most do not understand the process or the amount of data that could potentially be located in a device.

This moves us into the question “How do I preserve data evidence to be used in a court of law?” The answer we are going to talk about is a “Hardware Write Blocker”. There are more types of write blockers but we are going to look at the hardware type at this time and to be more specific we will be looking at CRU, Inc write blockers. You can see some videos of their products here VIDEOS.

LMTV | Cyber Crime: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You (by Tim O'Neill)

This Google hangout video was produced by Man'ority Report.

"You can do anything if you put your mind to it." True for a 15-year old immigrant boy who didn't speak English but ended up being an university professor and a successful entrepreneur. That's the American dream. Unfortunately it is also true for a bunch of religious fanatics who hijacked civilian transports and turned them into flying molotov cocktails. That's the American nightmare. It wouldn't take much to start cyber terrorism. Similarly, as parents, our worse nightmare is when we say goodnight to our kids and they go into their private bedrooms and turn on their computers. +Tim O'Neill did a fantastic job today giving us an overview of cyber crime. You can run. You can hide. But what you don't know can and will hurt you.

#Man16 #LMTV +Denny K Miu

DEFT 7 Cyber Forensic Tool Overview (by Casey Mullis)

DEFT 7 "REAL" and powerful Cyber Forensic Tool overview!

My name is Casey and I have been learning computers for over 13+ years. My favorite thing to do is to break in to encryption or password protected cyber stuff. I find it funny how insecure and naive we really are in this digital age.

In no means am I saying that I am some great hacker, I just love learning especially to help get criminals. There is so much out on the net to help you do whatever it is you are looking to do. Sometimes you have to spend money to buy tools to get the job done. Sometimes the tool is right in front of your face, if you only opened your eyes. In this case you open Google and do a little searching.

There are many open source tools out there free for use by anyone willing to take the time to find it and research how to use it. What is “Open Source” well the wiki answer is the following:

“In production and development, open source is a philosophy, or pragmatic methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details [citation needed]. Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code.[citation needed] Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.[1] The open-source software movement was born to describe the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created”

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

New and truly a Rapid Smart Cell Phone acquisition device! (by Casey Mullis and Notes from Tim O’Neill)

The Paraben Phone Recovery Stick and more!

Phone Recovery Stick Testing done by Investigator Casey Mullis!

I had the luxury of testing the new Paraben Phone Recovery Stick today. 

 The computer system used for the test was the Lenovo T510.

Test Acquisition Computer Specifications:

1. Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit
2. Intel Core i7 M620 - 2.67GHz
3. Installed Memory (RAM) 8.00GB

Test Phone: HTC EVO 4G (Carrier - Sprint)

My friend, Tim O’Neill , a cyber instructor for the Georgia Police Officers Standards and Training, is always getting the latest forensic tools  for us to test to see if we can improve our lawful acquisition techniques, skills and ability. In the past we had tested the Paraben I-Stick for recovering the iPhone for forensics.  Recently Tim gave me the Paraben Phone Recovery Stick to test and I got the opportunity to test the product today on the HTC EVO 4G (Sprint).

First and for most, I am a guy and the last thing guys like to do is read manuals and or instructions. You know how it is, “We don’t need no stinking instructions”. Well the really good thing Paraben was to made this click simple, because the first thing I did was pop in the Paraben stick, double click the EXE file located on the root of the Paraben stick, and plug in the cell phone via USB.

I know, I know… there is a manual and or instructions for a reason. Great thought, it is located on the USB drive as well. If you have to read it, then feel free to do so but note this tool is so simple, even the manual is only twenty pages long.

Daddy or Mommy, What Did You Do During The WAR! (by The Oldcommguy®)

What War are we talking about?

Today's Cyber WAR!

The war today is the Cyber War and it goes on 24 hours a day 7 days a week…..all year long and in every home, business, town, state and country in the world!

 
Just last week I was called to help in a multi-jurisdictional and multi-location criminal raid warrant. I worked with some of the best cyber law enforcement officers in Georgia and our job was to document and start the evidence trail on many personal and business computers plus the networks that they were attached to – WiFi, WLAN and XDSL.

As I approached the scenes I use the Fluke's AirCheck to determine the RF arena and I stored the information for later reporting and to assure that we had all the IP addresses for further warrants. Really a very cool and very valuable tool for LE as well as for enterprise RF signal radiation WiFi studies and defenses!

 Fluke's AirCheck Area WiFi network overview!

 

IronKey – A Real Security and Protection Solution for Data! Tested and Confirmed (by Casey Mullis)

If you have Data to protect - Then I suggest you give IronKey a serious look like I did!

They pass the test!

I have been custom building computers for the past ten years and cracking as well in my continued efforts to be a cyber investigator. It is the challenge of getting past the encryption that one thinks is impenetrable that peeked my interest and desire to test an IronKey.

So when IronKey hit the market and boasting its security, I was intrigued. I began my research for what made the IronKey so secure. Once I completed my research I began drilling down in to some underground websites that had claims of breaking the security of IronKey. Now what I found sounded very plausible. So my next step was to put their claims to the test.

One thing you never want to do is put your faith in other people’s findings. Humans are easily led astray. So test what you find for yourself, then you will know if it is true or not for yourself! The one thing I was lacking was a IronKey for testing. As fate would have it I met up with the CEO of IronKey, Davis Jevans CEO now Chairman, at an INFRAGARD meeting in Georgia, USA. He spoke about his IronKey’s security and I disagreed with him due to my findings on the net. The CEO agreed to send me an IronKey for my brand of testing.