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Cyber-forensics

9:38:01 am mst / 26 February 2001 found by paul / filed in legal / source San Francisco Chronicle 115 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails

An overview of the booming field of computer forensics -- using forensics technology to extract data from computer systems, usually as part of a criminal investigation or lawsuit.

It sounds like it pays quite well, given that experts are being lured from law enforcement agencies into the private sector by salaries that are "$100,000 more than what they used to make annually".

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So do something about it. by MysteriousStranger 6:05:43 am mst / 27 February 2001 / # 1

Well let's see... Eraser will stop the techniques discussed in the article. Daily freespace wiping will stop them cold in their tracks. www.tolvanen.com/eraser/ And Scramdisk will stop much more sophisticated (=expensive) techniques. www.scramdisk.clara.net/ They also mentioned raiding mail archives on service provider's side. This makes me mention PGP; in a workplace situation, use the conventional encryption option, to avoid compromising private keys. http://www.pgpi.com/ And how about that sneaky spyware? Well I would be very surprised if it couldn't be found and disabled with dllmon.exe from http://www.sysinternals.com Every bit of this stuff is freeware.