Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Scalpel : Data Recovery From Byte Strings

In digital forensics, file carving is an essential process. It is a technique in which investigator uses databases of headers as well footers. These headers and footers contain byte strings. So, suppose you have 5 JPEG files. So all those 5 files will have same header & footer byte strings. So this tool carves data by analyzing that byte string. This Is an advance tool as it also carves file even after its metadata is removed.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Phishing Countermeasures Unleashed

In this article I have my best to gather and explain all those possible ways by which phishing can be avoided. Here I am going to explain Phishing counter measures in very details. As you know phishing is kind of technical and psychological attack on human nature, which make him/her to reveal their sensitive information to the attacker. For more information on phishing you may visit Wikipedia and search for a topic “Phishing”. Here I am going to provide you all possible counter measures for phishing attacks.