- Bret talks about his new toys
- Ovie flees the country, again

News and Commentary
New Britain Youth Bureau Gets Conviction
After a two year long investigation, two individuals have been sentenced to jail time for child molestation.

Via Forensics Released Android Forensics Application
Via Forensics has released a beta version of its open source Android Forensics application.

Exclusive Interview
This week we speak with Christa Miller about the need for law enforcement and digital forensics specialists to manage their online resumes. With so many different social networking sites, it's important that they all appear consistent in voice and purpose.

Tech Topics
FreeBSD Tips on SANS Forensic Blog
Hal Pomeranz has a great post on the SANS forensic blog detailing tips for how to conduct a forensics investigation against a FreeBSD system.

FireFox Internet History Analysis
A new FireFox Internet history analysis program, dubbed FoxAnalysis, has been released.  This software purports to gather all kinds of interesting goodies from FireFox history files.

Website of the Week
http://grc.com/passwords.htm - Randomly generated passwords (Thanks Ralph)
Read It Later - Keep a list of web pages your want to read from your computer or iPhone
InstaPaper - Allow you to read a webpage later from your computer, Kindle or iPhone
Gazelle - Get cash for your old gadgets

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Listener Email
 - Darrell asks how to build your forensics business
 - Bobby wants to know what computer bag Ovie recommends, check out the Brenthaven Prolite II


News and Commentary
Craig's List Rapist
Former boyfriend posts an ad on Craig's List pretending to be his ex-girlfriend and leads viewers to believe the female is asking to be raped. One individual then broke into her home and raped her in response to the ad.


Online Personal Information Security
Bret and Ovie discuss a number of websites related that give people a little too much information on where you are.


Non-Metadata Clues in Video and Audio Files
Remember to look beyond the metadata when looking at audio and video files. An FBI investigator reviewed 14 video tapes and found evidence that lead to a sexual abuse conviction.



Exclusive Interview

This week we speak with Sean Morrissey of Katana Forensics.  Katana produces forensic imaging software for the iPhone called "Lantern."  The Lantern software is a Mac based tool that purports to provide a "legally defensible forensic methodology for the iPhone."



Website of the Week
CyberSpeak iPhone App
David Kovar's Blog

Listener Email
 - Aaron sends us to tell about using Stitcher feed
 - Paul writes to ask how someone without forensics background should go about starting out. Ovie and Bret give some pointers.
 - Ovie is starting a SANS vLive course on June 8th!

News and Commentary
GPS Forensics Used to Find Body
A fugitive wanted for questioning about a number of murders committed suicide before law enforcement officers were able to find the bodies of the victims.  Using computer forensics, however, the officers were able to recover GPS data and locate the remains.

Exclusive Interview
Todd Shipley, president and CEO of Vere Software speaks to use about looking into the cloud to find forensics data.  He speaks to use about products from his company to assist in capturing this kind of evidence.

Website of the Week
CrowbarPGP  - A new tool by George Starcher to brute force PGP passphrases
DigitalCertainty.Biz - WiFi Investigator to identify the location of WiFi devices
 

DoD CyberCrime Conference was last week in St Louis MO and was their biggest event ever with over 1100 attendees, 175 presentations and 15 simultaneous tracks. Check out the SANS website (http://www.sans.org/) for the SANS 2010 Orlando coming up March 6-15.

News and Commentary
SanDisk Corp and Verbatim join Kingston in a Crypto No-no
A hole found in the AES-256 encryption on USB flash drives from these three companies allows unauthorized access to the devices without knowing the password.

Creedent Finds 4,500 Drives Sent to Dry Cleaners
UK based company Creedent finds large amounts of devices left in pockets of clothes sent to dry cleaners and left behind in taxis.

Exclusive Interview
Robert Botcheck, founder and owner of Tableau, joins us today.  Tableau, makes some of the most popular and reasonably priced write-blocking devices.  Their newest product is a software imaging program that promises such features as multi-threading and sequential scheduling.  Check out the interview for more information.

Website of the Week
 - The Macintosh Forensics Podcast

This week on CyberSpeak, Bret or Ovie are both regretful that they are not going to the DoD CyberCrime Conference. CyberSpeak is not on STITCHER. Now you can listen to the latest show, on demand from your cell phone. You can also go directly there by going to this link http://stitcher.com/listen.php?fid=11119 Bret and Ovie briefly discuss Apple's big announcement, everyone is thinking it is the ipad/slate. Bret says he don not know exactly what it is but he is getting one....with his wife's permission. 
Listener Email - Tom sent us an email saying : Hi fellas, and suggest we check out his UK forensic blog called Happy as a Monkey. 
In the news, Forensic Focus have compiled a directory that details all the academic institutions worldwide that offer computer forensics courses.  We discuss an interesting murder trial in Waco TX that has some great forensics work, nice job to the forensic examiner, Neal Kersh. We also discuss a Twitter Jokester being banned for life from an airport after twittering "Robin Hood airport is closed," he wrote. "You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!" We also talk about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech last week where she said that her department will introduce several initiatives aimed at fighting Internet censorship. Clinton said: âThose who disrupt the free flow of information in our society pose a threat to our economy, our government and our civil society. Countries or individuals that engage in cyber-attacks should face consequences and international condemnation.â Last, we talk about the latest Microsoft vulnerability that affects all 32 bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, and Server 2003 and 2008.
Our Web Sites of the week are https://www.mobiledefense.com and http://www.domystuff.com.

Listener Email

 - PGP released PGP10 with one license for all operating systems
 - Expunging data vs destruction of data
 - Reaction of the industry to push-button tools like Paraben's Porn Detection Stick


News and Commentary

Google Grows a Pair
Last week brought computer security into the spotlight when Google announced it was no longer going to abide by the Chinese censorship rules and might be pulling out of China all together.  This news was closely followed by reports that Google, and many other US companies, had their computer networks compromised by agents of the Chinese government.


Exclusive Interview
Didier Stevens joins us this week to talk about some of his recent forensic tools and research, including the changes to the UserAssist registry keys in Windows 7 and his malicious PDF tools.  He speaks about some of his other tools like his SafeMode restore tool.

Website of the Week
L5 Technology
Stitcher.com
WoanWare

Thanks for all the Decaf feedback

News and Commentary
Digital Forensic Research Challenge

Results are in from the DFRWS Forensics challenge. This year contestants look at forensics of a Sony Playstation.

GSM Vulnerability Released

At the recent 26th Computer Chaos Conference Chris Paget and Karsten Nohl presented a new crack in the GSM armor. By using an equivalent of rainbow tables they can economically crack GSM encryption.


Exclusive Interview
Ovie interviews CEO of Paraben Forensics, Amber Schroader.  Schroader talks about and what's going on at Paraben and what we have to look forward to!

Website of the Week
iFixIt.Com - Repair manuals, now for FREE!

Anti-Forensics for Mac OSX from BlackHat DC

Listener Email
- Lots of email this week regarding the DECAF product and Interview
- Ovie is not against transparency, just wants responsible disclosure

Exclusive Interview
Michael, one of the creators and developers of DECAF product spills the beans to Ovie.

News and Commentary
DECAF
There's been a lot of coverage of this, most of it bad. But we've compiled a list of accurate stories for ya:
    - Lots of media coverage, most bad, but a few good sources:
    - Harlan Carvey's Windows IR
    - Forensics Focus
    - Digital Forensic Investigator
    - Praetorian Prefect
        - Reactivating DECAF in two minutes

Collection of Evidence From the Internet
Todd Shipley over at DFI News has a great article about collecting evidence from the Internet.

Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE)
The folks over at SWGDE have done some great work on creating standards and strenthening the handling of digital evidence.  Check out their recommendations and responses to other industry movments at their website.

Also check out the Forensics Certification board at http://www.ncfs.org/dfcb.


Website of the Week
 Ovie: http://www.mint.com/ - Best free way to manage your money. Basically an online Quicken
 Bret: http://www.dfinews.com/ - Great resource for forensic news

Check out Friends in Tech's Geek Christmas Story!

Full interview of Developer of Decaf

Only 9 shopping days until Christmas!!. In today's show Ovie lets slip details from his latest incident response job, Bret interviews Simson Garfinkel, and lots of great forensics talk. And at the end, Ovie tells you how you can save your marriage! Website of the Week Ovie: http://www.familylife.com - Check out great holiday romance ideas Bret: Check out the Digital Forensics wave on Google Wave, search for "with:public forensics"