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This article is primarily for the aspirants and investigators of the IT forensic World. It is a fact that the technique of capturing the evidence from the crime site decides the course of an investigation. In order to make this process more effective and reliable keeping the parameters like significances and volatile nature of data in business. Here arises the need of an innovative technology that can be applied to capture “live” evidence on a computer at the scene of an investigation before it is powered down.

This article is written with a purpose to provide you the glance over the efficient software technologies which are especially innovated to craft investigating procedures trouble-free & absolute.

To facilitate & decipher the evidences collection procedure simple, Agape Python, which stands separate from the crowd of others, designed exclusively for law enforcement agencies. It provides fast, easy-to-use, comprehensive, cost effective forensic capabilities which require nominal computer knowledge to apply. It is integrated with number of commands which can considerably minimize the time to collect digital evidence at the crime site. It eliminates the necessity to seize a computer itself, which usually involves disconnecting from a network, potentially losing data. Instead, the investigator can scan for evidence on site. In view of the fact that the network data is so volatile this may be lost in a process of turning off the computer.

It is an all in one software that supports Index Hard Disks on the fly, decrypt passwords and analyze a computer’s Internet activity, as well as data stored in the computer and much more…. with lighting speed.

And all these unique functionalities comes in a light weight, easy to carry, ready to use plug-in USB “thumb drive” to seize the data from the computer that may have been used in crimes without taking into the custody. So Just “PLUG IN & EXTRACT”

Jayesh Bellani
Executive: Fraud Management System
Agape Inc

Agape Inc, India’s first ever cyber forensic company launches Tech Pathways for Indian Market. Technology Pathways is a leading edge provider of computer security tools and services for the Corporate IT, government and legal communities.

This launch will underscore the ongoing commitment of Agape Inc to provide expanded services within its products and services as new security standards and methods evolve.

The ProDiscover® family of security products combines high quality, performance, and ease of use at affordable prices Technology Pathways provides products and services for:
• Incident Response - Quickly investigate and positively determine if any compromises have been made to your systems as the result of an incident – without taking your system out of service.
• System Audits – Effectively audit systems throughout the network to insure that they have not been compromised
• Internal Investigations – Investigate and monitor internal computer systems to insure compliance with the law or corporate policies.
• Computer Forensics – Thoroughly examine all data on a computer system, locate any evidence that is stored on that system and safely preserve that evidence for use in a court of law.
• Digital Discovery – Find and produce evidentiary quality electronic documents for civil proceedings.

For Further Product Information & price information mail us at: michelle[at]agapeinc.in (replace [at] with @).

To log online Cyber Crime Complaint call our Toll Free No. at 1800 209 6789 (For India Only)

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.

For further information on our products and service visit URL: - www.agapeinc.in or E-MAIL us at info[at]agapeinc.in (replace [at] with @) or SMS AGAPE at 54646

Paraben launches its new product Data Arrest 1.0 it is a quick acquisition tool for PCs. This tool is contained in a rugged hard drive and is designed to allow investigators to perform a triage acquisition of data from a hard drive but still adhere to basic forensic principals of data preservation. Data Arrest allows you to focus your acquisition on specific types of data you’re looking for. Simply determine the type of data you wish to acquire - from all images, to documents, to Internet files, to a full logical acquisition and more. You can do a quick forensic triage of any machine you have access to.

• Boot up in a forensically sound windows PE based environment
• Or acquire data on a live system
• Acquire the data you need in as little as 10 minutes
• Ruggedized forensic storage included (160 GB of storage)
• Full forensic integrity of the data

This is the ideal tool for quick intelligence gathering, parole officer review, corporate investigations or anytime that a preview and seizure option is needed.

Dear team,

I am greatly thankful to the fraud management team at AGAPE for taking my case (orkut profile hacked) seriously.

I had filed a complaint at various places but could not receive any help from them. But after registering my complaint at AGAPE, within a week I received a mail from the fraud management team giving the details of my hacked ID. It was unbelievable. A million thanks for such an incredible job.

I give my high regards for such an effort done by you.

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Dear Sir,

I would like to express my thanks in getting my fake orkut profile blocked.

This has really helped me cause I was been terribly impersonated on orkut for months which had adverse effect on me and my family as there was a lot of personal information in the profile.

Thanks a lot for considering my case sensitive and helping me get back to my normal life.

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Hi,
You have done really good work. I tried to get this job done by many other means but nothing worked. Thank you so much for your assistance and the time you spent. God bless you.

Regards,
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Dear Sir,

Thanks a lot for your support, pls note that I am able to open my e-mail id, now I want to change the password, I am trying to change that, but when I click on to change password it ask for previous passord & new passord,

I entered *********** as previous password, & a new passord, but it not changing and showing that the previous password entered is in correct.

Pls help.

Best Regards,

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Note: Name of the client is not shown due to privacy & security reasons.

Two years ago a computer forensic program was developed by The Marshall University Forensic Science Center. Sice then the West Virginia State Troopers have been investigating computer crimes with the help of this forensic program. The director of the center said computer evidence is used in cases involving child pornography, embezzlement, drugs and even homicide.

Its a known fact that today computers can be used to perpetrate a crime or contain evidence linked to other types of offenses.  Also, if a computer isn’t actually used to commit the crime, there may still be evidence found on the computer, such as communication records. And this is what is collected by the investigating officers to provide the digital evidence laboratory with the majority of the evidence. Although, some evidence is collected directly at the laboratory,  but majority of the evidence comes from the forensic center.

And the best part since the introduction of this program is that the forensic experts dont have to everytime sit and surf the web. They receive tips and then they start digging the truth in the news. This not only saves their time but also helps them in managing the huge list computer crimes within their limited number of forensic experts. Their senior experts point out that child pornography consumes a substantial amount of their investigative time. This is so because child pornography is more pervasive than one might anticipate.

In most of the cases the evidence could include computers, cell phones, digital cameras or other electronic devices. The Bureau of Justice Assistance funds the computer forensics program with a $750,000 grant. It is worth to note that people around the world are realizing that computer forensics is an important part of forensic science that can help in solving complex criminal cases, with some ease.

The ImageMASSter Solo-3 IT from ICS is a hand held, high speed data duplication tool. It integrates all the latest advanced features in data imaging. It is capable of copying data from IDE and laptop drives, Serial ATA and SCSI drives as well as Flash Cards. With the integrated Link MASSter Option, data can be copied from unopened computers using the FireWire or USB2 interface. The source’s hard drive is write protected and one can copy data to 2 targets hard drives simultaneously..

The copied data can be verified to achieve maximum reliability. On the fly MD5 or CRC32 hashing capabilities are available using the sector-by-sector copy mode to guarantee exact replica of the source’s data without modification, re-arrangement or corruption. Priced at $1,999 for the US region, the product can be obtained by placing an order with their distributors around the globe.

The official partners of ICS in India are Agape Inc and any inquiries for ImageMASSter Solo-3 IT in India can be made by contacting us.

Recently ICS has announced that their products are comatible with Mac. It released a new software option to be used with the Solo-3 Forensic and LinkMASSter units that will allow the user to acquire data in a forensic manner from  unopened MAC computer or MAC laptop through USB or FireWire ports.

A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the user. The term “virus” is also used to refer to many different types of malware and adware programs.

Once your machine gets infected by a virus, it takes control and slowly tears you apart in the following ways:

1. It attempts to harm your system; either by slowing down the performance or completely corrupting it.
2. It tries to spread to multiple computers, if you are connected in a network.
3. Phishing: Some viruses control your system and try to steal important information from your system.
4. Sometimes, a virus can also defame you by stealing your sensitive information and displaying it to public. Such a virus is usually designed by hackers.

There are various ways in which you can secure your system from the onslaught of viruses which will be discussed later; till then the super tip is to use a strong antivirus program and keep it updated.

Informative articles always help everyone as they result in knowledge addition. Keeping the same thought in mind, the links this week point to some very informative articles, which will surely help you.

1. Computers are now weapons used to steal people’s identity, defraud companies of trade secrets, or prey on children online. Such cyber threats must be tackled in a proper way. Read more
2. Your hard drive got corrupted and you fear the possibility of losing your important data. Heres when data recovery can help you. Michael Stankard explains how hard drives work, why they fail and what you as users can do to protect your data. Read more
3. A new research center will study ways to improve personal identification management on the Internet to combat identity theft and fraud, narcotics and cyber terrorism. Read more

This week has been very busy so far as we have been working hard for the release of our new mobile forensics product. This product will help the forensic investigators as it would be available in different versions.

Anyways, this week we are presenting the links which will provide helpful information about the importance of information security and the new updates to the rules. We hope they would be helpful for everyone.

1. Are You Familiar With the New E-Discovery Rules? Read more
2. 6 burning questions about network security. Read more
3. With so many ways for people to conduct their lives on the internet, their personal information ends up online. Safeguarding yourself against cyber threats becomes necessary. Read more