by Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting Mrs Carol L. Stimmel has taken upon her to start a Computer Forensic Volunteer Project to provide low-cost services to those who cannot assert advantage from our skills. Here is a bit taken from the press release:- “As expert members of the international computer forensics community which provides unique and […]
by K K Mookhey, NII Consulting Scott Carney over at Trailing Technologies did an interesting post on the Chennai Cyber Crime Cell needing an upgrade. The officers informed him that their lack of success was due to a lack of proper equipment, and that they needed a Rs. 1 crore (USD 200,000) investment to actually […]
Securing your passwords against Rainbow Table Attacks By Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting In the previous article we looked at the Rainbow Tables and how it can crack windows passwords in a matter of seconds. In this article we will look at different ways to add complexity to the passwords and protocols to secure your system […]
By Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting Windows passwords are stored in the registry (encrypted) in the form of a hash. LMHash was the first hash function used by Microsoft to secure their passwords. Eventually when the security issues popped up (as LMHash is quite insecure) they had to come up with NLTM and the most recent […]
By Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting Welcome to the world of log analysis. Log analysis plays a crucial role in intrusion detection. If the compromised system is running on Linux platform one of the first steps which the investigator will perform is the analysis of log files. Linux has an ability to store the logs of […]
K K Mookhey, NII Consulting Two recent events bring to light how the lacunae in India’s privacy laws are now hitting where it hurts most – the bottomline. According to this report in the Economic Times, Apple and Powergen have moved their back-office operations out of India. This follows closely on the heels of the […]
by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting How many times in an investigation does a forensic investigator come across the problem of acquiring data from a suspect’s laptop? The answer to this question would be ‘many times’. Whenever such a situation arises, the investigator is usually in a dilemma as to whether he should open the laptop, […]
by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting Have you ever received an anonymous email and wondered who it was from? Ever conducted business via email and wanted to know if the other party is who they say they are? As you can imagine, the uses for this type of investigation are endless. Not only is it possible […]
by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting Everyday millions of people surf the web using popular web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) or any one from the Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape family. A very important step in computer forensics is investigating the web usage of the suspect. This information is useful in everything from examining company policy violation […]
by K. K. Mookhey, NII Consulting e4 It’s late at night, and the phone rings. This had better be a world-changing revolution. But it’s something weirder. A client in East Asia informs us that his systems are behaving most abnormally. Before one can gather one’s senses, the information begins to flow: “The primary trading systems, […]
