RE: WFA and network forensics

From: Reava, Jeffrey [IT/0200] (jeffrey.reavaat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 11:49:35 PDT

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    have you looked at the open directory project http://www.dmoz.org?
    
    If you type in the domain name, it comes back with one or more open
    directory categories. Some may be useful, others less so. It probably
    wouldn't take much to screen scrape the output into something useful. 
    
    Jeff
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: JJ [mailto:jjhorner@SAFe-mail.net]
    Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:23 PM
    To: forensicsat_private
    Subject: WFA and network forensics
    
    
    I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm giving it a shot
    anyway.
    
    I've got web traffic logs for our users.  In a WFA case, I need to be able
    to pull an individual employee's activity out of our logs and categorize the
    sites visited by said soon-to-be-ex-employee by site type.  For instance:
    
    safe-mail.net  = Web-based email
    google.com     = Search site
    foxnews.com    = News
    weather.com    = Weather
    whitehouse.com = Adult entertainment
    
    I know a lot of the filtering suites out there do this kind of
    categorization, but I just need a good, often-updated category list by
    domain name so that I can grab the connection request heading to an IP and
    do a rough categorization based on what that IP resolves to.
    
    I also want to roll this category list into our post-WFA forensic analysis
    procedures so I can give a categorized report along with the actual system
    and evidence images.
    
    Any ideas?
    
    I figure this roughly fits into the kind of work some of us do, a.k.a.
    finding out what people do when they use our computers in ways that aren't
    intended.
    
    
    Thanks,
    JJ
    
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    J. J. Horner
    CISSP,CCNA,CHSS,CHP
    
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