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Microsoft's COFEE forensics tool leaks online
Microsoft's secret Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) has leaked online, and is now available to all. COFEE is quick an easy to use tool, approximately 15MB in size that fits on a USB drive for law enforcement officials to use in PC forensics. It can be used to locate parts of a computer's hard drive used by criminals to commit identity theft, online fraud, child pornography and other such crimes.
The small program contains 150 commands which simplify and speed up the process of data retrieval. According to a Microsoft spokesperson "an officer with even minimal computer experience can be tutored—in less than 10 minutes—to use a pre-configured COFEE device."
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The small program contains 150 commands which simplify and speed up the process of data retrieval. According to a Microsoft spokesperson "an officer with even minimal computer experience can be tutored—in less than 10 minutes—to use a pre-configured COFEE device."
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User Comments (7)
Post a comment| Puiu on November 9, 2009 9:24 AM | Since it only works on XP (for now) criminals should just switch to another OS (win7/vista/98/mac/linix) and they have the minimal protection against law enforcers. ^_^ |
| treeski on November 9, 2009 11:20 AM | This is pretty cool. I had no idea that Microsoft worked on stuff like this. |
| abautu on November 9, 2009 12:18 PM | Yes, like that's what you want: put an officer with minimal computer experience against a identity theft hacker. We need professionals to counteract professionals. |
| zaidpirwani on November 9, 2009 12:21 PM | Puiu said: Maybe all
criminals should start using Linux now... Since it only works on XP (for now) criminals should just switch to another OS (win7/vista/98/mac/linix) and they have the minimal protection against law enforcers. ^_^  Or even TrueCrypt to encrypt all their bad deeds, but I think all those who do these kind of things are well aware of this and will be 2 steps ahead always... |
| freedomthinker on November 9, 2009 3:22 PM | i still don't really get what is this for ? |
| Timonius on November 9, 2009 5:25 PM | 'REAL criminals' would use linux or something similar anyways (Not xp,vista,7 or osx). And they would have high powered electro magnets at the ready just in case. Just sayin'... |
| Guest on November 9, 2009 10:52 PM | The forensics comminuties have had tools like COFEE for some
time. It is another wrapper which under the hood executes
builtin OS commands and tools from sysinternals. It is
created in a way that a non-technical law enforcement person
can run it, very standardized so the impact to the target
system is known. Many free tools actually do this better
but require more technical understanding. For example, I
didn't see that COFEE dumps the memory, pagefile or prefetch
directories which all can contain important information,
some other tools handle
this. http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11 /more-cofee-please-on-second-thought/ |
