Hackers Brew Self-Destruct Code to Counter Police Forensics

[The Straight Story]

Hackers Brew Self-Destruct Code to Counter Police Forensics


Hackers have released an application designed to thwart a Microsoft-packaged forensic toolkit used by law enforcement agencies to examine a suspect’s hard drive during a raid.

The hacker tool, dubbed Decaf, is designed to counteract the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, aka Cofee. The latter is a suite of 150 bundled, off-the-shelf forensic tools that run from a script. Microsoft combined the programs into a portable tool that can be used by law enforcement agents in the field before they bring a computer back to their forensic lab. The script runs on a USB stick that agents plug into the machine.

The tools scan files and gather information about activities performed on the machine, such as where the user surfed on the internet or what files were downloaded.

Someone submitted the Cofee suite to the whistleblower site Cryptome last month, prompting Microsoft lawyers to issue a take-down notice to the site. The tool was also being distributed through the Bit Torrent file sharing network.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/decaf-cofee

[formercia]

1. Now we can find out about the back doors in MS Software.

I bet they still have a few more, just in case.

Wouldn't it be funny if there was a Trojan in the Decaf code?

..and be sure to set your BIOS to not boot from USB.

... and be sure your BIOS is password encrypted.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

4. Password protected or password encrypted?

I was unaware one could "encrypt" the bios.
Password protection on the other hand seems to be a pretty common feature.

Also, what's to stop the police from simply unplugging the Hard drives and scanning or imaging them?

[Taverner]

2. Good

[Greyhound]

3. The computer is the democratization of communication, and therefore, power.

The base of the power structure as we know it is gone, it's just going to take a generation or two for most to catch on.

[L0oniX]

5. Heh ...thanks ...I just dl'd both and more.

http://decafme.org/

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5152895/COFEE_-_Microsoft_Forensic_Tools_-FIXED-

[paulsby]

6. it never ceases to amaze me how frigging cavalier

child porn people etc. are when it comes to encryption, etc.

i can't remember the last time i searched a computer disk that had encrypted files.

and apparently, 99% of these people don't know that "erasing" a file does nothing of the sort.

with all the shareware encryption tools, anonymous surfing tools, etc. it's simply amazing how few people use them.

especially considering in many cases we are talking about convicted felons/and/or on parole people who are looking at serious prison time for an offense.