Computer Forensics

Links from the book: Incident Response Essentials

by Warren G. Kruse II and Jay G. Heiser

This page is still under construction

Links from the foot notes are included here.  Gradually I'll add other links from the book while this page is still under construction.  Broken links are included in case their server was down and the link actually does work -and so you know that I didn't miss it.  If you see something wrong or find that a broken link works, please let me know at kiter6@nwlink.com

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1 Chapter 1 - Introduction to Computer Forensics

9

http://www.msnbc.com/news/417406.asp

Broken link

10

http://www.jetform.com/

Resolves to: http://www.accelio.com/

13

http://www.tripwire.com/

Data Integrity Assurance

14

http://www.ics-iq.com/

Intelligent Computer Solutions

17

http://www.forensics-intl.com/

New Technologies Inc.

17

http://www.encase.com/

Guidance Software

21 http://www.infobin.org/cfid Computer Forensic Investigators Digest (CFID)
21 http://www.htcia.org High Technology Crime Investigative Association (HTCIA)
21 http://www.thetrainingco.com/html/Conferences.html Techno Security Conferences
21 http://www.ne-htcia.org/training.html list of training and college programs
21 http://www.forensics-intl.com New Technologies Incorporated
21 http://www.search.org SEARCH
21 http://www.guidancesoftware.com Guidance Software
21 http://www.encase.com "
21 http://www.reid.com/training.htm/ Reid Institute - Broken link
21 http://www.treas.gov/usss/index.htm?electronic_evidence.htm&1> Best Practices For Seizing Electronic Evidence
21 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/searching.html US Dept. of Justice, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section
23 Chapter 2 - Tracking an Offender

25

http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/

Index of /in-notes/

25

http://www.iana.org/

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

28

http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~azdaja/changemac.html

program that changes ethernet network card address -Broken link

29

http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html

ICANN-Accredited Registrars

30

http://samspade.org

find out who owns the domain

30

http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois

Search All WHOIS Records

46

http://www.eudora.com/

Free Email Software

51

http://www.deja.com/usenet

resolves to Google Groups at: http://groups.google.com/

55

http://razor.bindview.com/tools/index.shtml

Razor Tools from Bindview

58

http://www.samba.org/

Open source software suite

58

http://www.tamos.com

Home of Essential Net Tools & Smart Whois

63 http://www.arin.net/whois/arinwhois.html American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
63 http://www.apnic.net/ Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
63 http://www.ripe.net/ Reseaux IP Europeans (RIPE)
63 http://home.ag.org/iptools.htm -Broken link Found at: http://tatumweb.com/iptools.htm "Swiss Army knife of Internet Tools
63 http://www.samspade.org/ -Not .com Wide variety of research tools
63 http://www.webisplist.com Resolves to CNET
63 http://ipindex.dragonstar.net/index.html Broken link... couldn't find

63

http://www.whitehats.com/

Snort - network intrusion detection

63

http://www.datanerds.net/~mike/

Windows version "

64 http://ddi.digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html "Figuring out fake Email & Posts"
64 http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~tburgess/local/spam.html "Fighting Email Spammers"
64 http://spam.abuse.net "Fight Spam on the Internet!"
64 http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html "Reading Email Headers"
65 Chapter 3 - The Basics of Hard Drives and Storage Media
69 ftp://ftp.powerquest.com/pub/utilities/ Download Partinfo for free
76 http://www.encase.com/ Identifies any data in unallocated space
78 http://www.ontrack.com/ Data Recovery Services
78 http://www.ibas.net/ "
78 http://www.cablesonline.net/ Adapters & Stuff
80 http://www.forensic-computers.com/ laptop adapters

80

http://www.ics-iq.com/

Intelligent Computer Solutions

82 http://www.iwar.org.uk/comsec/resources/standards/rainbow/NCSC-TG-025.2.html Guide to understanding Data Remancence in Automated Information Systems
83 Chapter 4 - Encryption and Forensics
84 http://www.atstake.com/ Home of L0pht -password cracking tool
95 http://www.nai.com/ Network Associates -home of McAfee & PGP
100 http://www.surety.com/ Digital Time Stamp
100 http://www.digistamp.com/trust.htm "
104 http://www.counterpane.com/whycrypto.html "Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks"
105 Chapter 5 - Data Hiding
111 http://www.accessdata.com/ Password Recovery tools
112 http://www.lostpassword.com/ "
112 http://www.atstake.com/ Home of L0phtCrack -password cracking tool
113 http://www.sysinternals.com/ SAM databases can be copied using NTFSDOS
113 http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
114 http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat - Provider of open source technology
114 http://www.toms.net/ "The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk."
114 http://www.elcomsoft.com/ "Advanced Zipped Password Recovery"
114 http://soft4you.com "ZipPassword"
119 http://www.wotsit.org/ The Programmer's File Format Collection
121 http://www.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Corporation
122 http://www.foundstone.com/rdlabs/tools.php?category=Forensic Many free forensic tools
122 http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml "Streams from Mark Russinovich of SysInternals"
122 http://www.crucialsecurity.com/ "CrucialADS is a GUI-based tool from Crucial Security"
124 http://www.steganos.com/./en/ Stego utility
124 http://members.tripod.com/steganography/stego/software.com Broken Link
129 Chapter 6 - Hostile Code
135 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970602/2crac.htm Broken Link
139 http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/IDFAQ/trinoo.htm Intrusion Detection FAQ
143 http://www.nmap.org/ Free Security Scanner
143 http://www.nessus.org/ Remote Security Scanner
144 http://www.atstake.com/ Home of L0pht -Password cracking tool
146 http://www.wildlist.org/ List of Hostile codes in the wild
146 http://www.trusecure.com/html/tspub/index.shtml Broken Link
147 http://www.packetstorm.com/ Network Emulators
147 http://www.rootshell.com/ Broken Link
Malware Web Sites
147 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-virus/ Computer Virus FAQ
147 http://www.rootshell.com/beta/exploits.html Broken Links
147 http://www.packetstorm.securify.com/sniffers/ Broken Links
147 http://www.packetstorm.securify.com/dirtree.html Broken link
147 http://www.packetstorm.securify.com/Crackers/

Broken link

147 http://www.wildlist.org/ The Wildlist Organization International
147 http://www.skyscraper.fortunecity.com/cern/600

Broken link

147 http://www.nwi.net/~pchelp/bo/bo.htm The Back Orifice page
AV Vendor Sites Containing Searchable Malware References
147 http://datafellows.com/v-descs/ F-Secure Virus Description database
147 http://vil.nai.com/villib/alpha.asp McAfee Virus Information Library
AV Product Test Sites
148 http://www.virusbtn.com/100 Virus Bulletin 100% Awards
148 http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc Virus Test Center
148 http://www.check-mark.com/ Checkmark Information
148 http://www.icsa.net/html/communities/antivirus/certification/certified_products/ ICSA certified AV products
149 Chapter 7 - Your Electronic Toolkit
150 http://www.dmares.com/ Maresware - Computer Forensic Software
150 http://www.forensics-intl.com/ New Technologies Inc.
151 http://www.jasc.com/ View Mac, PC, and Unix files
151 http://www.dataviz.com/ "
153 http://www.cerious.com/ ThumbsPlus is distributed only online
156 http://www.cdrom-prod.com/software.html CD-R Diagnostics
158 http://www.dtsearch.com/ Fast Text Search
163 http://www.forensics-intl.com/thetools.html Computer Forensics & Security Software Tools
163 http://www.foundstone.com/rdlabs/tools.php Resolves to http://www.foundstone.com/knowledge/free_tools.html
167 http://www.fish.com/tct/ The Coroner's Toolkit (for Unix)
167 http://www.all.net/ Fred Cohen & Associates - Strategic Security & Intelligence
169 http://www.forensics-intl.com/ New Technologies Inc.
174 http://www.encase.com/encase/encase_v3_features.htm Broken Link
174 http://www.forensic-computers.com/ Forensic Hardware
174 http://www.exabyte.com/ "
175 http://www.ics-iq.com/ " -Intelligent Computer Solutions
175 http://www.forensic-computers.com/ Forensic Hardware
176 http://www.incident-response.org/irtoolkits.htm Static linking
176 http://www.dmares.com/maresware/forensic_tools.htm Broken link
177 Chapter 8 - Investigating Windows Computers
191 http://www.webdon.com/ Password Recovery
195 http://www.sysinternals.com/ Advanced utilities, technical information, and source code
195 http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q140/3/65.asp MS Knowledge Base Article of Default Cluster Size for FAT & NTFS
207 Chapter 9 - Introduction to Unix for Forensic Examiners
     
245 Chapter 10 - Compromising a Unix Host
246 http://www.cert.org/research/JHThesis/Start.html "An Analysis Of Security Incidents On The Internet"
     
263 Chapter 11 - Investigating a Unix Host
263 http://www.fish.com/forensics/ "Forensic Computing & Analysis"
266 http://www.pimmel.com/ "Hacking the Linux kernel"
276 http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/ TCP Aware - "Network GREP"
283 http://www.rootshell.com/ Broken Link
297 www.cert.org/secuity-improvement/implementations/i002.02.html

Broken link

297 www.sans.org/y2k/RPM.html  
305 www.sans.org/y2k/linux.htm  
     
311 Chapter 12 - Introduction to the Criminal Justice System
312 http://htcia.org  
314 http://www.reid.com  
319 http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2576340,00.html  
321 http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ Federal computer crime statues
321 http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm Office of Law Revision
325 Chapter 13 - Conclusion
325 http://www.ne-htcia.org/training.html