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Over Last 20 years, the number of mobile phone subscribers in the world has grown from a mere handful to more than 3 billion. It is estimated that more than 1,000 new customers are adding up for mobile services every minute around the world. Consequently, the use of mobile phones connected to criminal activity is on the rise and the invention of Third Generation technology has made effect on security further vulnerable, since this service incorporates MMS, Multimedia Service but more importantly includes videotalk. Now a days, Mobiles are used for e-commerce and the relevance of Mobile Evidence are of   greater importance. The forensic examination of mobile phones is complicated by the fact that each new model requires different analysis tools and investigative techniques. The developers of mobile phone forensic tools struggle to keep pace with changing technologies and capabilities of modern day devices.

Today,  you need multiple products & tools to cover the different  Mobile Phone like GSM Phones, CDMA Phones, TDMA Phones and PDA  to extract vital information like Call log ,the Phone book, SMS messages, Ring tones, Pictures, e-mails and video clips and deleted sms stored in the mobile either on the SIM card or a flash memory card.

On the other hand, AgapeMobiTool provides all in one Solution with added features which enable:
(1)  Acquisition of data from GSM/CDMA 3G SIM cards including text messages, phonebook,  call logs, Network information, IMSI Number.
(2)  Recovers deleted data from GSM/CDMA 3G SIMCARDS.
(3)  Supports with infrared, Bluetooth and serial cables.
(4)  Acquire data like Text messages, Phonebook, Call logs, IMEI Number, Battery Status, Phone Information.
(5)  Acquisition of data from mobile phone memory including pictures, video’s, Audio’s    Themes.
(6)  Retrieve Active & deleted e-mails.
(7)  Perform both Physical and Logical Acquisition.
(8)  Text, Hex & ASCII data viewing options available
(9)  Generate report using XML stylesheet.

AgapeMobiTool is forensically Sound software since it is incorporated with the MD5 & SHA1 & SHA512 Hash Algorithm to ensure data integrity for the Court of Law Purpose.

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Jayesh Bellani
Executive: Fraud Management System

The Government on Thursday set in motion the process of providing a Unique Identification Number(UID) to India’s citizens. The Union Cabinet has appointed the Infosys Chief Nandan Nilekani as the Chairman of National Authority for Unique Identity.

UID will be the equivalent of the social security number in the US. The prime purpose of this number was to track individuals’ accounts. It has since come to be used as an identifier for individuals within the United States.

The closest India has come to this is the Permanent account number (PAN), issued by the Income Tax Office, for purposes of tracking income and income taxes. It has now gained use as a means of identification for activities like getting a phone connection.

Each Unique Identification cards has microprocessor chip with a memory of 16KB which include detail Information regarding Name, Sex, Father’s Name, Address, Marital Status, Photo, Identification Mark and Finger Biometrics that will be based on sophisticated application called SCOSTA, a secured electronic device. Through this card, the citizens will be able to avail basic government services like driving licenses, passports and voter identity cards.

The UID scheme would ensure that lacuna in the system is removed and benefits reach the sections they are meant for. It would be provided to citizens by 2011. Initially, the cards will be given to all voters listed in the electoral roll data.

Jayesh Bellani
Executive: Fraud Management System

In the world of cyber crime, where evil bytes are fast replacing whizzing bullets. Given the unrestricted number of free Web sites, the Internet is undeniably open to exploitation. Known as cyber crimes, these activities involve the use of computers, the Internet, cyberspace and the World Wide Web. There has also been a rise in crimes by the use of computers where hackers and computer professionals attack the government agencies, corporate offices, etc, and mostly the young people and teens are working as hackers and making use of computer as a weapon.

Many computer users will try to hide their tracks if what they are engaged in, is improper. But the technique used by typical computer user will be obvious to a forensic specialist. Whereas, Hackers and Professional Experts have advance knowledge to hide or even erase the inappropriate content from hard drive in sophisticated way which cannot be retrieve back easily.

For this Platform, Agape, India’s leading Cyber forensic Company has developed a software toolkit that allow you to be more effective and efficient in your hard drive forensic Analysis by providing advanced work environment for computer forensic examiners for less money. This set of tools helps you identify whether or not a targeted computer system was used to access inappropriate information. Compared to its competitors, Agape’s Toolkit is more efficient to use, runs fast, is not as resource-hungry, finds Active files as well as deleted files from unallocated spaces called “Slack” & offer many features that the others lack, and it comes at a fraction of the cost!

Toolkit includes different Software tools, each taking different role in the examination. It runs under Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008. The suit is incorporated with the write protection software and Hash Algorithm which ensures data integrity and eliminates any chance of data overwriting. Thus, Empowering the evidence that can be used in Court of Law. Suites include.

Text Analyzer enables quick search over hard drives, zip disks and floppy disk for key words or specific patterns of text. Its features include bookmarking and advanced searching which includes multiple words & multiple phrases searching.

Case Catalyst allows reviewing, searching and reporting of data in XML and HTML format and performs indexing of the files. It includes bookmarking and advanced searching features including multiple words & multiple phrases searching. It supports 200+ file formats for different applications.

Email Inspector is comprehensive forensically sound e-mail examination tools available for searching all supported e-mail files from system. It supports almost all e-mail files formats like Outlook e-mails files (.pst, .msg, .eml), Opera e-mail files (.mbs), Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Pegasus Mail, Calypso, FoxMail, .mbx, .pbx, .tbb etc file formats. It extract e-mails from suspect’s system and converts in readable format. Software also supports report making in XML and HTML format.

Net History Analyzer is a forensic software which acquire all internet history on system like Visited url history , cookies history, system’s internet temporary file and all internet pages that is html File saved in system and system bookmark file. Its functions include bookmarking and also support multiple words & phrases searching. Generates reports in XML and HTML.

RegExtractor is used for analyzing Windows registry entries. It finds incorrect or obsolete information in the registry. RegExtractor works with registry files copied from other computers. It contains information and settings for all the hardware, operating system software, most non-operating system software, users, preferences of the PC, etc. Generates Report in XML and HTML Format, Loads Multiple Registries.

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Agape Inc. has joined forces with Verismic to launch an expanded product line for the IT sector that enhances the working condition through reducing carbon emission and helps generate a positive impact internally and also for the external environment in the long run.

The product range is largely focused on the need based solutions for I.T. industry & systems management. Being cost efficient it serves the needs of the company and being eco-friendly it best serves the requests of the surrounding environment.

The products and their features are listed below.

Power Manager: - Power Manager is a fast and easy way to deliver a solution. With this tool you can monitor your power consumption, reduce carbon emissions i.e. reduce costs and prove that Green IT is a cost saver.

Password Reset: - It is a self service password reset tool empowering end users to control and reset personal passwords without calling the help desk. Password Reset delivers instant benefits to every part of the organization and consistently demonstrates the same security, reliability and ease of use across all environments.

Integration Launcher: - It is a tool that bridges the gap between Service Desk and Desktop Systems Management tools to create a single powerful solution. Integration of your tool set makes it possible for Help Desk professionals to remotely diagnose system issues and fix them, versus costly desktop visits.

Archive Analytics: - Archive Analytics detects and identifies those systems that have gone missing from your environment and helps determine if they have been retired or if they have disappeared. It records all changes and provides built-in analysis reports, analyzes Software Distribution Activities and also any change in inventory Analysis.

The month of March in recent years has set email volume records, but this March is well off the pace. Last year we saw an average of 153 billion messages per day, while this March averaged only about 100 billion messages per day, as per the report issued by McAfee.

The McColo network was not only the large source of spam in the US, but also trafficked in child pornography and malware. McColo a web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged in spam activity was unplugged. Researchers estimated that spam levels dropped about 60 percent after McColo was closed.

E-mail security firm IronPort said spam levels fell by roughly 66 percent. Spamcop.net, another spam watch dog, found a similar decline, from about 40 spam e-mails per second to around 10 per second after the web hosting company was unplugged.

McAfee detected nearly twelve million new IP addresses operating as “zombies,” computers under the control of spammers and others. This is a significant increase over the levels from the last quarter of 2008, with an increase of nearly 50 percent. The third quarter of 2008 also posted a record number of new zombies, but it was exceeded this quarter by one million. And although the spam volume levels have not yet recovered from the McColo shutdown, the activity level of new zombies indicates that the spammers are working hard to regain the infrastructure lost and that volumes will return to previous levels sometime soon.

View McAfee Threats Report: First Quarter 2009 here.

While most viruses target PC users, there has been a considerable rise in the number of attacks on Mac systems.

Recently two new attacks (worms) have been identified by experts from porn sites attacking Mac users directly known as Mac OS-X malware. What it does is that visitors to the malicious porn site are told they have to download an ActiveX component to view the videos and users get redirected to the pagemac.php page, which downloads a QuickTime.dmg file (a Trojan) dubbed OSX/Jahlav-C, gets downloaded. Read more…

As credit card use is on the rise and plastic cards slowly replacing cash, it won’t be far when the common man will use smart cards freely for everyday transactions. But wait! Is it safe? However, hookies that had shifted their hooks sometime back on stealing credit card data, selling them to fraudsters and duping banks with multi-billion dollars every year, creating a wave of bankruptcy for major player banks. These transactions ask for the 16-digit code on the front of the card, and expiry date and some also ask for the three-digit security card on the back. All of these details are available to a fraudster who has a stolen credit card.

Every person has some or the other doubt in mind about using credit card. There’s a good news…Visa is launching a smart card with in-guilt display that will be extremely secured during operation and will require a four digit code in addition to the three-digit security code generated by the card, before a transaction could go through making online fraud pretty difficult if not impenetrable.

This processed technology known as the Emue system should be launched by the end of this year. Employees at Deloitte are working on this new card system to find if any vulnerability is present. Adding an extra layer for online transactions and being a consumer focused product, visa banks would welcome this system open heartedly. The developers of this emue system say that it automatically generates and displays a unique code each time it is used. Work on the battery back-up part is still in progress but should run a couple of years without trouble.

Sherwin Azavedo
Manager: Cyber Crime Complaints
Agape Inc.

Obama stating its new CyberSecurity plans on friday morning at a White House said “This new approach starts at the top, with this commitment from me: From now on, our digital infrastructure — the networks and computers we depend on every day — will be treated as they should be, as a strategic national asset,” in his briefing in the East Room he said “Protecting this infrastructure will be a national security priority. We will ensure that these networks are secure, trustworthy, and resilient. We will deter, prevent, detect, and defend against attacks and recover quickly from any disruptions or damage.”

Obama noted that cybersecurity is a “matter of public safety and national security,” noting the nation’s reliance on those networks that deliver power and water and run air traffic control.

Although there were no big surprises in Obama’s position or the contents of the cybersecurity review, experts say the tone and stature of the president’s remarks on cybersecurity is the big news. “The fact that he has prioritized it and called our digital infrastructure a national strategic asset has put some political capital behind this,” says Shannon Kellogg, director of government affairs for EMC RSA, who was in attendance at today’s White House briefing.

President Barack Obama will appoint a government-wide cybersecurity coordinator and elevate cybersecurity concerns to a top management priority for the U.S. government. The new cybersecurity coordinator will be a member of the White House’s national security staff as well as the president’s National Economic Council, Obama said. The president also said the office would include a person in charge of ensuring the privacy and civil liberties are protected.

President Barack Obama also said “Our pursuit of cybersecurity will not include – I repeat will not include – monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic,”