Show notes for January 4, 2009
 
Administrative
 
Ovie got a new editing setup for Christmas and his new years resolution is to stop posting substandard chopped up podcasts. :)

DoD Cybercrime Conference â January 26-30, 2009

Review of 2008 New Year predictions...?

Listener Email  

A federal agent sent us an email and a nice donation and said thank you both for the great podcast.  Drake wrote in to make a quick correction :)  Windows Steady State (previously branded as shared access) doesn't require a special partition or unpartitioned space, in fact I don't see that it makes any visible changes to the drive partition setup at all.

42 LLC developed some EnScripts that they are offering up to the community for open beta.  If you register an account on our forums you will be able to download the scripts and any updates we publish.
http://42llc.net

News  

If Santa left you a Samsung digital picture frame, you might want to check it for virus.  The gift giving culprits is the SPF-85H 8-Inch Digital Photo Frames w/1GB Internal Memory, designed to work with Windows-based PCs via a USB connector sold between October and December 2008 for about $150 through Amazon. 

Breathalizer for your PC?

New HP Windows Home Server to backup MAC OSX systems
December 29, 2008 Hewlett-Packard Co. is adapting its latest MediaSmart Windows home servers to back up customers' Mac computers using the OS X's Time Machine auto-backup feature.

Tech Topics  

VoomTech releases their Hard Copy 3.  Can output to 2 drives without slowing down.  The new SHA256 hashing offers greater strength then the MD5 hash.  At 7.5 GB per minute, HardCopy 3 is the hands-down fastest forensic hard drive duplicator anywhere!  And HardCopy 3 still costs less than our over-priced competitors ($1599)

Web Sites  of the Week

http://now.sprint.com/widget/
http://blip.fm
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/

This is a reposting of the Dec 21, 2008 show to fix the audio levels. Many thanks to George Starcher!!! Ovie goofed up the levels.

"Dude, where's my Podcast?!"

Today Bret and Ovie talk to Matthew Shannon from F-Response!  We discuss a ruling on 4th Amendment Search with Hashsets. 

Harlan Carvey teaches Knitting.

Websites of the Week
Dots Gloves
Google Video
Opps I Am Late
Google Tenth Birthday

And don't forget to go to F-Response.com and take a look at the videos!!

This week Ovie and Bret talk about the SANS What Works in Forensics and Incident Response Summit.  We also cover memory imaging with MDD and Volatility.  Website of the week 123people.com. 

Take Care!

Today, Kevin Mandia is on the show talking about the State of the Incident Response, CyberSpeak Listeners get big discount to SANS Forensic Summit (CODE: Cyberspeak10), Ovie and Bret discuss listener email, PC Magazine's Cybercrime hall of fame hackers, Shawn Henry gets a promotion as the new FBI AD Cyber-Division and legalalities of boarder searches. Web site picks of the week are http://vajachoice.com/index1.html and http://privnote.com

This week, Bret and Ovie talk with Jesse Kornblum about...Fun tricks with computer memory.  In listener email we hear about a 2 year old April Fools joke that is still fooling people, we discuss how a Texas law requiring private investigator licenses could be putting geek squad and other innocent people in violation of the law.  Help is on the way as FBI opens a new RCFL in Houston.  In tech topics we discuss an information leakage paper on TrueCrypt.  Keep those emails coming at cyberspeak *at* gmail.com.

Today Ovie and Bret clean out the mail bag! We talk about free forensic tools, the stimulus check, Gadget Track, bypassing the BIOS, imaging RAM and www.getmooh.com.

Video instructing people to never talk to the Police is at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865

Give us your thoughts about the video....

CYBERSPEAK -at- GMAIL dot COM

Bret and Ovie are back! (Yeah, Bret and Ovie - Not Ovie and Bret) :) Today they talk about low cost forensic imaging, hacking the London Tube, American Boat Co v. Unknown Sunken Barget I & II, modify your Macbook Air DVD drive, the Eye-Fi card, Gadget Track, Tripit, and Glassdoor.

The forensic exam report we refer to is here: http://blogs.csoonline.com/files/Forensic%20Report.pdf

Ovie and I are back from travel and hope to have more new shows soon!!

OUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS CYBERSPEAK -at- GMAIL.COM

This week we discuss Brets new Kendle, Ovieâs new neat receipts and givce a secret to listen to podcasts twice as fast as before.   The episode focused on forensic news and legal decisions of interest, specifically a APC pirate being convicted, a study that reports 68 percent of all internet-based malware was now being hosted on legitimate sites, Bot-herder Greg King is found guilty on two counts for launching a DDOS against Castel Cops, and Perdue offering Mac Forensics training for 100 law enforcement.  In legal news, we discuss Reasonable expectation of privacy and an allegation a warrant did not have probable cause for a computer search. Web sites of the week included www.zinio.com and http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator. 

Mac Forensic Training at Purdue university, Email Marcus for more info at rogersmk@purdue.edu. Study reports 68 percent of all internet-based malware was now being hosted on legitimate sites. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39429909,00.htm Barry Gitarts, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was convicted today by a jury in the Eastern District of Virginia of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement Fedora live cd creator https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

This is a repost to fix bad audio file.

Happy Fathers Day!  This week we discuss Brets new Kendle, Ovieâs new neat receipts and givce a secret to listen to podcasts twice as fast as before.   The episode focused on forensic news and legal decisions of interest, specifically a APC pirate being convicted, a study that reports 68 percent of all internet-based malware was now being hosted on legitimate sites, Bot-herder Greg King is found guilty on two counts for launching a DDOS against Castel Cops, and Perdue offering Mac Forensics training for 100 law enforcement.  In legal news, we discuss Reasonable expectation of privacy and an allegation a warrant did not have probable cause for a computer search. Web sites of the week included www.zinio.com and http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator.