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SalvationDATA is now redesigning its HD HPE PRO to HPE SP. This new product, maintains all its original capabilities, allows you to work on hard drives with spacers. Also it will have one “head comb” added to the HPE SP for separating multiple heads when the head stack replacement takes place (much easier than using the original plastic separator). The team at SalvationDATA have been working on it for a period of time, and hopefully they will have it released on in November 2008.

Anyone who is interested in this new product and wants to purchase or know more about it or have any suggestion on this new tool can contact SalvationDATA.

Having focused on DNA forensics last week, this week i am presenting links that highlight more on the importance of other methods of forensics and how to make maximum use of forensics in crime investigation.

1. Can a forensics consultant rip off government? Thats what the Punjab government feels while establishing the Forensics Science Agency (FSA). Read more.
2. Data recovery is the process of retrieving computer data that, for any number of reasons, has become inaccessible using normal methods. In such cases some special methods are used to recover the data. Read more to know such methods.
3. Investigating Digital Crime. This is a book written by Robin Phillip Bryant in which he introduces comprehensive ways focusing on how criminals have adapted digital technologies. Rob Harle presents his review on the same. Read more.

Today, i am presenting links which are mostly information based, but very useful at the same time. The links provide effective tips which everyone should know, to avoid being caught in a major internet security breach disaster.

1. Dating can be dangerous in the cyber world. Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Linda Kelly explains the right way. Read more
2. How to prevent cyber cops from ringing your doorbell. Read more
3. Ensure your data is recovered before a disaster occurs. Read more

The links for this week cover a wide range of topics from data recovery to ethical hacking and network security tools. The articles include some How to do it yourself tutorials, as well.

1. The Windows way of successful data recovery. Read more

2. IBM’s research paper on Ethical Hacking. Read more

3. Importance of newtwork security forensic appliances in evidence gathering. Read more

Agape Inc, pioneers in the field of Cyber Forensics, Cyber Law, Storage Solutions, Digital & Mobile Forensics and Biometrics, recently partnered with SalvationDATA, widely recognized as a professional data recovery system provider.

Agape will now be able to offer more variety to its clients for the data recovery segment. It will now be offering SalvationDATA’s extremely popular products - HD HPE PRO, HD Doctor Drive Restoration Suite and Data Compass. SalvationDATA has been providing data security consultancy and comprehensive solutions for large enterprises / organization, and has now teamed up with Agape to cater to the Indian market.

It is worth noting that Agape Inc are currently the only official partner of SalvationDATA in India.

As i do it every Friday by posting some useful links which can help someone looking for solutions in the forensic space. So here are today’s links covering some articles and news related to password protection, data recovery and examining the digital evidences.

1. How to prevent Password cracking? Read More

2. Tips for examiners while analysing Digital evidences. Read More

3. Data recovery tips and regulations. Read More

Given below are some useful links to articles, which will highlight the importance of data recovery, digital forensics and tips to prevent credit card fraud.

1. An article describing PC Pandora’s monitoring software that presents full visual and documented recording of everything that happens on the machine.
Read more.

2. John J. Barbara explains Ethical Practices in Digital Forensics. Read more.

3. Ways to Avoid Credit Card Fraud. Read more.

A new crime fighting tool: FRED has been launched for digital data recovery.
FRED is an acronym for Forensic Recovery Evidence Device and is a powerful computer using advanced technologies. It has a single mission; which is to recover digital evidence from whatever electronic devices that may have been used in the commission of a crime.

FRED can recover information from different hard drives and other data storage devices like floppy discs, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Compact Flash, Micro Drives, Smart Media, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, xD Cards and secure digital media and multimedia cards.

This means that devices ranging from cell phones to iPods to servers to supercomputers can be interrogated by FRED, thus helping in digital forensic process and cyber crime investigations.

Almost everyone of us have experienced computer disaster at some point of time. This might have led to loss of some very important information. With computers getting technologically robust, the recovery techniques and tools have proved to be a boon to individuals/organizations.

But with the emergence of strong Open source tools like TestDisk, BackTrack, Helix, SystemRescueCD and many more, have made data recovery an easy affair. The biggest advantage of Open source tools is that they do not force the user to abide by their licensing agreements and cost.

Refer this article for more information on how to recover data using Open source tools.