Last year Microsoft released a tool called COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) to law enforcement agencies around the nation and around the world a couple of years ago .

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Hackers have released an application designed to thwart a Microsoft-packaged forensic toolkit used by law enforcement agencies to examine a suspect’s hard drive during a raid. The hacker tool, dubbed DECAF , is designed to counteract the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, aka COFEE. The latter is a suite of 150 bundled, off-the-shelf...
Cryptome, the secret-document-spilling site, is back online Thursday, after Microsoft withdrew a copyright complaint that shuttered the site the day before. Microsoft’s efforts to suppress a document about how to subpoena online user data backfired, leading instead to widespread attention to (and republication of) the document it tried to...
From Lance Spitzner: In January of this year the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a report called “Analyzing the First Years Of the Ticket or Click It Mobilizations”… While the report is focused on the use of seat belts, it has fascinating applications to the world of security awareness. The report focuses...
A coalition of the net’s biggest online service providers, including Google and Microsoft, are joining with the top internet rights groups to demand Congress modernize the nation’s privacy laws. Among the reforms pushed by the so-called Digital Due Process coalition is a requirement that law enforcement get warrants from a judge when...
Continued from a previous blog post … The Digital Age Will Save Us… Uh Huh If you haven’t noticed our world of software is changing right from under us. We rarely receive CDs or DVDs when you buy software. All the Microsoft products I use in my business all come direct via the web, downloading an installer or the ISO image of the DVD...
Microsoft has managed to do what a roomful of secretive, three-letter government agencies have wanted to do for years: get the whistleblowing, government-document sharing site Cryptome shut down. Microsoft dropped a DMCA notice alleging copyright infringement on Cryptome’s proprietor John Young on Tuesday after he posted a Microsoft surveillance...
There’s a new book out on Cyber Crime. This one is written by Joseph Menn. Joseph has covered computer security for Financial Times and the Los Angeles times for years. The book is called Fatal System Error . The book covers in detail several interesting real-world stories on computer criminals. For example, it covers the history of online...
The “Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook (U.S. Domestic Version)” (also can be found here, here, and here) outlines exactly what Microsoft will do upon police request. Here’s a good summary of what’s in it: The Global Criminal Compliance Handbook is a quasi-comprehensive explanatory document meant...
From the Forbes blog: In an annual report published Friday by the U.S. judicial system on the number of wiretaps it granted over the past year …, the courts revealed that there were 2,376 wiretaps by law enforcement agencies in 2009, up 26% from 1,891 the year before, and up 76% from 1999. (Those numbers, it should be noted, don’t…...
Microsoft took a stab at Waledac bots last April when they added detection to their Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). The MSRT is part of their monthly Microsoft Updates package. Well this week, Microsoft is going after the Waledac botnet en masse , by taking down 277 dot.com Command & Control servers. Kudos to Microsoft. We hope this...
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