Dare to delete my files!
by Nikhil Wagholikar, NII ConsultingIntroduction One of the recommended file-system for Linux is Ext-3. Ext-3 file-system might not be as robust and powerful as compared […]
Category: Fundamentals
Understanding NTFS file system
by Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting In this article I will cover the basic concepts of NTFS file system. In NTFS (New Technologies File System) all […]
Data Carving Issues
by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting Many a times as an investigator, I have to deal with the issue of carving data from unallocated spaces in […]
Bad Superblock, corrupt inode tables and loads of bad luck!
by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting Well, last week was abuzz with activity when we had to recover data from a corrupt Linux hard disk. Thought […]
Hiding data with Host Protected Area (HPA) in Linux
By Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting Have you ever thought of hiding data in such a manner that it cannot be deleted even after the hard […]
Computer Forensics Volunteer Project
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 […]
Understanding Index.dat (Internet History Data File in Windows)
by Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting The index.dat is a file which contains the list of the websites that one has visited. It comes from “indexing” […]
LINReS – An open source Linux Incident Response Tool!
By Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting In accordance with NII’s mantra of innovation and research, we have developed our own tool to conduct initial response on […]
Protecting your pot of gold
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 […]
Article on Dissecting NTFS Hidden Streams
NII Consulting’s Chetan Gupta (GCFA) has published an article at ForensicFocus on the Alternate Data Streams in NTFS, and how these can be detected. This […]