CAINE 1.5 (code name "Shining") is ONLINE
Hi all! Caine 1.5 (Shining) is online! You can see the changelog in the Release page. We added and updated many tools, fixed many things....Caine 1.5 more friendly than before!
CAINE 1.5 (code name "Shining") is coming!
Hi all! Caine 1.5 (Shining) is coming! We are working for the release 1.5, that will fix many features and it will update many tools and the kernel. We are following the friendness and usability. Linux for all!
CAINE 1.0 is online!
Hi all! Caine 1.0 and NBCaine 1.0 are online now! I am Nanni Bassetti and I took the legacy of Giancarlo Giustini the founder of the distro, who remains in the team.
I applied 3 patches: one for this BUG, one for the mount policies, those are safer and future proof, and one for the partitions numbering...
Welcome to Maxim Suhanov, (AKA "forensics" in our forum), in our team!
Stay Tuned!
Hi all! Soon Caine 1.0 and NBCaine 1.0 will be online! I am Nanni Bassetti and I took the legacy of Giancarlo Giustini the founder of the distro, who remains in the team.
I applied 3 patches: one for this BUG, one for the mount policies those are safer and future proof ;-) and one for the partitions numbering...Stay tuned few days to the launch!
Many thanks to Maxim Suhanov AKA "forensics" in our forum, for the patches and the help.
We are back!
I apologize for the wait, but work and other business have kept me from completely devote to CAINE. I am back to work, and now in my spare time I'm updating the software and all the forensic products; in few months the 1.0 will be available for download as promised.
Thank you everybody for your support!
TomTom analysis with CAINE (English)
Clara noticed that TomTom navigation systems are not accessible with hardware write-blocker connected with the forensics workstation and MS Windows operating systems installed, so she developed and tested a methodology that would allow to acquire data stored on these devices without making any changes to them. Helix and CAINE implement the same secure mounting strategy, that mount devices with the options ro, noexec and noatime, making the use of a write-blocker mandatory for legal issue, but not so binding as the experiment required.
The experiment is summarized into a document of twenty-four pages, in which the forensic analyst operates with the confidence to keep the evidence extracted from the TomTom valid for the court.
Here the article by Denis Frati and the PDF with the results of the experiment (ENGLISH - UPDATE!).
CAINE on Distrowatch
We are finally on Distrowatch!
Check our distro here.
We are currently working on CAINE 1.0, stay tuned!
TomTom analysis with CAINE (Italian)
Clara noticed that TomTom navigation systems are not accessible with hardware write-blocker connected with the forensics workstation and MS Windows operating systems installed, so she developed and tested a methodology that would allow to acquire data stored on these devices without making any changes to them. Helix and CAINE implement the same secure mounting strategy, that mount devices with the options ro, noexec and noatime, making the use of a write-blocker mandatory for legal issue, but not so binding as the experiment required.
The experiment is summarized into a document of twenty-four pages, in which the forensic analyst operates with the confidence to keep the evidence extracted from the TomTom valid for the court.
Here the article by Denis Frati and the PDF with the results of the experiment (Italian).
CAINE reviewed
DIY Forensics & Incident Response Lab - link
“Regarding forensic software, so much is already out there, both free and commercial. If you're just getting started, take a look at Harlan's list and try out the Caine forensic and IR LiveCD, which contains all you need to get your feet wet. IT shops that have already purchased forensic packages, like FTK and Encase, can easily install it in the lab at no additional cost provided they use their existing licensing dongle when not in use for an actual case.”
John H. Sawyer, senior security engineer on the IT Security Team at the University of Florida.
Windows FE “Live CD” Posts Followup - link
“Curiously, and not noted in the test, was the fact that I tried local installation of Helix, RAPTOR, and DEFT forensic Linux builds on the test system’s hard drive. All three balked during the drive preparation process, despite my successful manual creation of the ext3 and swap partitions manually in their installers. Only the CAINE Live CD allowed me to install itself locally with no issues or complaints.”
From Claus Valca blog.
Applied Information Security book (future publication)
“CAINE is a distribution focused on IT Forensics. It is a good learning environment for beginning users. CAINE has intuitive interfaces, a variety of functionality, and good reporting/documentation tools. Most IT Forensics suites are quite expensive and require a fair amount of training. A free tool like CAINE that has good collection, analysis, and reporting tools is invaluable for someone just starting out in the field.”
Dr. Randall Boyle, professor at the University of Utah.
CAINE ISO has reached 1500 downloads, and the new entry NBCAINE is currently at 120 downloads!
CAINE and Helix
“Oh no! Helix, the most popular compilation of forensics software on a bootable CD became payware only in February 2009. Now a $15/month subscription is required.
Previously, anyone could download and use the ISO for free, which lead to wide adoption… for example, the SANS forensic course uses it, and it was the tool of choice at a Canadian lead security agency where I used it to examine compromised workstations.
The best alternative right now seems to be the relatively new Live CD CAINE.
If your only goal is to obtain a valid disk image, Raptor from Forward Discovery is still free. There are also multiple other live CDs that include The Sleuth Kit and other collections of forensic tools. [...]”
We also report that CAINE iso has been downloaded 1000 times!
750 downloads of the ISO!
CAINE iso has been downloaded 750 times! Thank you!
Here (in italian) an interview that Giancarlo Giustini gave to the italian blogger Dario Vignali.
Defcon 17 and CAINE
Joe Cicero wrote me this e-mail today:
Giancarlo,
I've been teaching Incident Response, E-discovery, and Computer Forensics for approximately 5 years at the technical college level. I used other open source tools and utilities before CAINE but none of them worked as well "out of the box". I am a regular user of the forum and I get quick responses to my e-mails and postings when contacting the CAINE team. If you are interested in learning, teaching or conducting computer forensics and you want to spend less time configuring and more time analyzing CAINE is for you.
Joe Cicero will mention the use of CAINE in his discussion at Defcon 17, (July 31st - August 2nd, 2009 at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada).
Thank you Joe!
Joe Cicero is currently a Network Specialist Instructor for Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, he specializes in teaching Linux, Network Security, and Computer Forensics Courses. He is originally from Green Bay and in 1985 he joined the Marines. His final duty assignment was as the Operations Chief for Tactical Warfare Simulations Evaluations Analyses Systems (TWSEAS) where he traveled the world conducting training through use of computer simulations.
Last year, for Defcon 16, he had submitted a white paper entitled "Forensic And Recovery Techniques used while Data mining Institutions for Education". Here is the link of the Defcon 16 speakers.
Talking about... CAINE!
Sunset @ Ciudad de Mexico by Esparta (modded by GIanchi) - CC
http://vulnerabilityteam.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/nueva-version-del-caine-livecd-para-informatica-forense/
http://raulespinola.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/caine-gnulinux-livecd-para-informatica-forense/
http://meneame.net/story/caine-livecd-gnulinux-para-informatica-forense
http://busquiel.sociallinux.org/2009/02/27/
http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54/action,printpage/topic,3643.0/
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-it/2008-October/034680.html
http://www.comunidade-linuxnarede.eti.br/modules/news/article.php?storyid=798
5 days of 0.5
Orange Line @ eTech 2007 by eschipul (CC)
CAINE 0.5 iso has been downloaded 250 times in only 5 days, and the site has sustained a really huge amount of requests this week, with a peak never seen before!
Thank you for choosing us!
Jaime Andrés Restrepo, a Computer Security Researcher, has just translated the report template in Spanish, and we will include the new template in the future version of CAINE.
If you wish to participate by providing the translation of the report in your language or if you have found a translation mistake, please contact the CAINE team.
I also suggest to take a look to our forum here, if you want to contribute or find some important informations and many guides provided directly by the users of CAINE.
A lot of digital security and computer forensics web sites are talking about our brand new version:
http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/65495.shtml
http://forcomp.blogspot.com/2009/02/caine-05.html
http://www.security-database.com/toolswatch/CAINE-Computer-Aided-INvestigative.html
http://seguridad-informacion.blogspot.com/2009/02/caine-05-released.html
http://webnoticiero.blogspot.com/2009/02/nueva-version-del-caine-livecd-para.html
http://www.forensicfocus.com/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=6526339
http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54/topic,3643.msg16917/topicseen,1/
CAINE in the world
A mix of international web sites talking Manual and Policies Live CD.
Thanks to Benedetto Colangelo and Nanni Bassetti that went beyond the edges of a simple “google search”!
CAINE 0.5 released!
Main features:
- WinTaylor, forensic frontend for Windows environment
- Html page IE-compatible to run the forensic tools in Windows
- Ntfs-3g updated to 2009.1.1 (resolve a ntfs-3g bug)
- New boot option: text mode.
- Ubuntu 8.04 packages updated
- Firefox 3.0.6
- Gtkhash, frontend for hashing files
- New reporting features: investigators and case name added
- Multi-language report: italian, english, german, french and portuguese
- Firefox starts with the list of tools and a brief utilization manual.
