Re: Forensics CD (was: Re: Strange Folder

From: Ryan McBride (mcbrideat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 04:07:59 PDT

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    On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:12:09AM -0400, Meritt James wrote:
    > Neil Dickey wrote:
    > 
    > > It's a good idea to have a kit of such tools on a read-only
    > > CD in advance of an incident like this, so that you have
    > > tools you know you can trust -- that haven't been trojanned
    > > -- ready to use.  It's rather like the instructions in a
    > > snake-bite kit.  You want to be familiar with them *before*
    > > Mr. Snake has his way with you.
    >
    > REAL good suggestion!  Any specific recommendations as to what should be
    > on the CD?
    
    You might want to look at FIRE which is a primarily a CD bootable linux
    distribution designed specifically for forensic and security purposes,
    but also includes windows and sparc solaris binaries for performing
    forensic analysis.
    
    http://fire.dmzs.com/
    
    It's available as an ISO image, so just burn and go. 
    
    -Ryan
    
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