The Honeynet Project has announced the release of version 0.69 of the Honeywall CDROM. Some key features of this new version include

- - Whitelisting: The ability to identify IP's and networks you
want to allow inbound and outbound of your honeynet, but do not want to log or alert on.
- - Blacklisting: The ability to identify IP's and networks you
want to deny inbound and outbound of your honeynet and do not
want to log or alert on.
- - Traffic Summary: Improved traffic summary reporting, with
the addition of Snort alerts, Snort-Inline alerts, and
Suspicious traffic.


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During the past decade, the DNA technology used to solve crimes and settle paternity suits has become a big business. The federal government alone spent $232 million this past fiscal year promoting the use of a technology that barely existed 20 years ago. Now two information-technology experts with Florida ties are predicting the use of digital forensics to police -- what they call "counterfeit reality'' -- will soon join DNA science as a growth industry.

A coming explosion of counterfeit reality -- the use of computers and digitally based media to produce fake images, video, documents or sounds -- will drive a multibillion-dollar business of detecting what is real and what is not, say Daryl Plummer and Frank Kenney, analysts with Gartner Inc., a market-research firm based in Stamford, Conn.

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Top officials of London Police yesterday met their counterparts in New Delhi to discuss areas of mutual interest, including cyber crime and computer forensics. Commissioner of London Metropolitan Police John Stevens and Deputy High Commissioner of Britain Mark Runacres, accompanied by senior police officials, held talks with Delhi Police Commissioner K K Paul and his senior colleagues at the police headquarters.

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Like an episode of "CSI: Computers," a UF researcher has developed a technique that gives digital detectives twice the forensic evidence they now have to catch all kinds of hackers, from curious teenagers to disgruntled employees to agents of foreign governments.

Writing in the current issue of the International Journal of Digital Evidence, UF doctoral student Mark Foster proposes a new and improved method of computer crime solving, called “process forensics.”

“If a guy walks into a bank and robs it, leaving footprints behind or his fingerprints on the counter, the forensic analyst would come in and find those traces of what happened,” said Foster. In the same way, process forensics merges two existing types of digital evidence – intrusion-detection and checkpointing technology – to give an investigator the most possible information to crack a case, said Foster, a computer science and engineering student conducting the research for his dissertation with UF professor of computer science Joseph Wilson, who co-wrote the paper.

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Special Publication 800-72, entitled Guidelines on PDA Forensics, was developed to help organizations evolve appropriate policies and procedures for dealing with PDA forensics and to provide forensic specialists with a background on the technology, tools, and principles involved. The intended audience ranges from response team members handling a computer security incident, to organizational security officials investigating an employee-related situation, to forensic examiners involved in criminal investigations.

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