Which websites are you browsing while you are working? Make sure you answer this question honestly, because if not your employer may know that you're lying, thanks to new software offering from forensic software company Paraben.The software, which is roughly $34,000 for 100 computers, is able to analyze large capacity hard disks and find images that match the criteria of a pornographic image. The software also contains a real time monitor which can instantly alert a system administrator to suspicious activity on workstations.
With the rise of private browsing features in many of the leading browsers, is this software still effective? You may surprised to note that WebWereld, a security firm in the Netherlands, reported that recovering website history from browser, even with such features enable, is 'trivial' and not as difficult as some may think.
The privacy features of Internet Explorer can fail to delete the browsing cache and while the private browsing feature of Mozilla's Firefox does delete the cache, it is easily recoverable by forensic tools such as the offering from Paraben.
Private browsing is a feature designed to keep one's surfing habits private from other users of that computer, not security experts and forensic researchers. While it is easy to be swept away by the claims of privacy, it is important to remember what a difficult thing 'true' privacy is to achieve.
Your data will go to "RAM" as long as Windows does not decide that you're short on memory and dumps everything in the page file.
Yeah, as long as the work gets done I don't think many companies would be willing to spend $340 per machine for something like this, especially in the current climate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_recovery...verwritten_data
Although Gutmann's theory may not be wrong, there's no practical evidence that overwritten data can be recovered. Moreover, there are good reasons to think that it cannot.
So a single overwrite of the data should suffice.
And when you think that the cost is very high for this software.... why bother?
Sounds to me like they have over spent developing the software.
That's why we change the computers to work that way
No kidding, if they did I wouldn't have had reason to comment.
It's perfectly possible to download something straight into RAM without touching the hard disk. If they "don't work that way", then its because the software has been programmed to not work that way. There's no fundemental rule of "Computers" that says something has to be downloaded to disk rather than memory.
Last edited by TCLN Ryster on 10 Nov 2008 - 12:00
Where you need this is for rooting out overpaid executives with too much time on their hands and too much political power within the organization. They're usually the ones with enough time on their hands to pornsurf while the company goes to hell.
Somebodies on low quality dope!!
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/11/09/p...e#comment680482
Forensics knows you were surfing llama porn and your system's too clean, well you were destroying evidence and they know to keep a stiff watch on you by other means. You try playing around with evidence eliminators and forensics knows these things leak like a seive so it's really just a waste of time.
The only reason for using any of these schemes is for you to try to hide your llama porn habit from your non-tech savvy parents, partner or boss. But then your boss is able to hire people who can figure out what you're doing, so that moves it back into being only useful for rubes in the home. Your kids probably can figure out how to get into your llama porn stash anyway and have been doing so for years now.
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