Recover Internet Communications For Digital Investigations

Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) is a data recovery software that finds existing and deleted data from Internet-related communications left behind on a computer hard drive. What Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) can recover : Cloud Artifacts Dropbox Skydrive Google Docs Google Drive Flickr Social Networking Pages Facebook Page Fragments Twitter Status Update Bebo Chat Myspace Chat [...]

Extracting a video metadata with MediaIndo

MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. It provides general information for multimedia files like: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration, etc. It also provides more specific information for audio files such as: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate and more, and information for video files such as: codec, sample [...]

VGA Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller on Backtrack

The Laptop Aspire 4750 hasn’t been supported with a good resolution on Backtrack 5 R3. Therefore the owner of this brand laptop has to install some additional software, in order to get a best quality resolution. In my case, the VGA brand is Intel® HD Graphics 3000 with chipset “VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd [...]

Extracting Metadata from photos using exiftool

ExifTool is a forensic tool for for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, GE, [...]

How to activate Nessus on Backtrack 5 R2

1. Install nessus #apt-get install nessus 2. Creating A User Account You create the initial user account that will be used to login to the Nessus Web Interface: # /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-adduser 3. Obtaining An Activation Code Once you have Nessus installed on BackTrack 5, you will need to obtain a Nessus activation code. If you wish [...]

#1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server in Backtrack

The Linux Backtrack 5 R2 hasn’t included phpmyadmin as default, so if you want to create your database you have to install it by yourself. Therefore after I installed phpmyadmin then I try to log in I got an error said that “#1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server.”. I searched this error on [...]

The Canon printer Head Cleaning on Ubuntu

The maintenance menu of a Canon printer has installed simultaneously when you install the driver. Therefore, If you want to clean the head of a printer just follow the steps bellow: 1. Find out the type of the printer which connect to your computer. Go to System > Administration > Printing. 2. Run the following [...]

How to redirect wp-includes path to your home page

For those of you who used wordpress for your site, you can use a simple PHP script to redirect the wp-includes path to your home page. Because when someone access your site with the http://yoursite.com/includes, they can see all the files which located in that folder then they can open one by one files, if they [...]

How to setup VPN in Backtrack

When you want to setup a VPN, you should need a Network Manager, however the Wicd which is the default Network Manager of Backtrack hasn’t been able for a VPN client setup. Therefore you have to install some additional packages for Gnome Network Manager. #apt-get install network-manager-gnome network-manager-openvpn network-manager-pptp network-manager-vpnc After the packages installation done. [...]

bulk_extractor Version 1.3.1 has been released

bulk_extractor is a C++ program that scans a disk image, a file, or a directory of files and extracts useful information without parsing the file system or file system structures. The results are stored in feature files that can be easily inspected, parsed, or processed with automated tools. bulk_extractor also creates histograms of features that [...]

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