Forensic Hardware Tools

Question 1

Paraben’s First Responder Kits

Answer 1

provide first responders the necessary tools to preserve various types of mobile evidence and protect it from unwanted signals and loss of power. Whenever there is a mobile device involved at an incident, there are recommended procedures to follow. Two of the most important steps are to secure the device from unwanted wireless signals that could contaminate or eliminate data and to provide power to the device to prevent losing data. Paraben’s Mobile First Responder Bundle provides for both of these steps.

Question 2

DeepSpar Disk Imager

Answer 2

perform file system recovery while imaging files on-the-fly

Question 3

FRED

Answer 3

systems are optimized for stationary laboratory acquisition and analysis. Simply remove the hard drive(s) from the suspect system, plug them into FRED, and acquire the digital evidence. FRED will acquire data directly from IDE/EIDE/ATA/SATA/ATAPI/SAS/Firewire/USB hard drives and storage devices and save forensic images to Blu-Ray, DVD, CD, or hard drives.

Question 4

UltraBay 3D

Answer 4

a USB 3.0 integrated forensic bridge that includes a touch screen display and a graphical user interface for acquisition process monitoring.

Question 5

Paraben’s StrongHold Faraday Bags

Answer 5

block out wireless signals from cell towers, wireless networks, and other signal sources to protect evidence.

Question 6

PC-3000 Data Extractor

Answer 6

a software add-on to PC-3000 that diagnoses and fixes file system issues, so that the client’s data can be obtained. It works in tandem with the PC-3000 hardware to recover data from any media (IDE HDD, SCSI HDD, and flash memory readers)

Question 7

Paraben’s Chat Stick

Answer 7

a thumb drive device that will search the entire computer, scan it for chat logs from Yahoo, MSN 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, & 7.5, ICQ 1999-2003b, Trillian, Skype, Hello, and Miranda and create a report in an easy to read format so that one can see what kids or employees are saying to people onli

Question 8

RAPID IMAGE 7020 X2 IT

Answer 8

designed to copy one “Master” hard drive to up to 19 “Target” hard drives at Fast SATA-III Speeds. It can also be configured to copy multiple Master drives simultaneously. It also supports the duplication of up to 10 Master drives simultaneously.

Question 9

ROADMASSTER-3 X2

Answer 9

a forensic portable lab designed as a forensic data acquisition and analysis workstation. The RoadMASSter-3 X2 is rugged and is equipped with all the necessary tools to seize data from drives with common drive interface technologies

Question 10

IMAGE MASSTER WIPEPRO

Answer 10

a hard Drive Sanitization Station. It can erase up to 8 Hard Drives simultaneously at speeds exceeding 7 GB/min.

Question 11

PC 3000 Flash

Answer 11

a hardware and software suite for recovering data from flash-based storage devices like SD cards and USB sticks.

Question 12

ZX Tower

Answer 12

provides secure sanitization of hard disk drives and delivers wiping at a speed of 24 GB/min. The multi-target ZX-T allows to easily wipe up to 8 target hard drives simultaneously and also allows users to wipe up to 4 USB 3.0 enclosures.

Question 13

WriteProtect-DESKTOP

Answer 13

provides digital forensic professionals with a secure, read-only write-blocking of suspect hard drives. It is a portable write-blocker that provides support for 5 different interfaces in one device

Question 14

Data Recovery Stick

Answer 14

recover deleted files

Question 15

Tableau T8-R2 Forensic USB Bridge

Answer 15

offers secure, hardware-based write blocking of USB mass storage devices.

Question 16

Tableau TP3 Power Supply

Answer 16

designed to power the Tableau TD1 duplicator and two hard disks.

Question 17

FRED DX (Dual Xeon)

Answer 17

FRED SR’s Dual Xeon configuration in a standard FRED chassis. It is used when the power that FRED SR offers in a full-tower footprint is required.

Question 18

VOOM Hardcopy 3P

Answer 18

a forensic SATA/IDE Hard Drive Imager, Cloner, and Wiper with NIST approved SHA256 built into the hardware

Question 19

μFRED (MicroFRED)

Answer 19

a micro Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device. The μFRED system has much of the processing power of a full size FRED system but in a package only a fraction of the size (9” x 8” x 13”)

Question 20

Tools to obtain Social Media Info

Answer 20

Some of the popular tools include Netvizz, twecoll, divud, Digitalfootprints, Netlytic, X1 Social Discovery, Facebook Forensic Software, H&A forensics, Geo360, Navigator by LifeRaft Social, Emotive, etc.