{"id":6357,"date":"2009-12-15T04:15:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T12:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/12\/hackers-brew-self-destruct-code-to-counter-police-forensics-threat-level-wired-com\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T04:15:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T12:15:24","slug":"hackers-brew-self-destruct-code-to-counter-police-forensics-threat-level-wired-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/12\/hackers-brew-self-destruct-code-to-counter-police-forensics-threat-level-wired-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Brew Self-Destruct Code to Counter Police Forensics | Threat Level | Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/12\/cup-o-joe.jpg\" width=\"321\" height=\"480\" alt=\"cup-o-joe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2009\/12\/decaf-cofee\/\">\n<p>Hackers have released an application designed to thwart a Microsoft-packaged forensic toolkit used by law enforcement agencies to examine a suspect\u2019s hard drive during a raid.<\/p>\n<p>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 forensic tools that run from a script. Microsoft combined the programs into a portable tool that can be used by law enforcement agents in the field before they bring a computer back to their forensic lab. The script runs on a USB stick that agents plug into the machine.<\/p>\n<p>The tools scan files and gather information about activities performed on the machine, such as where the user surfed on the internet or what files were downloaded.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2009\/12\/decaf-cofee\/\" ><cite>Hackers Brew Self-Destruct Code to Counter Police Forensics | Threat Level | Wired.com<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have released an application designed to thwart a Microsoft-packaged forensic toolkit used by law enforcement agencies to examine a suspect\u2019s 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 forensic tools that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/12\/hackers-brew-self-destruct-code-to-counter-police-forensics-threat-level-wired-com\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hackers Brew Self-Destruct Code to Counter Police Forensics | Threat Level | Wired.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1Ex","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}