CAINE 8.0 "Blazar" GNU/Linux OS Provides a Complete Digital Forensic Environment | Linux Today

CAINE 8.0 “Blazar” GNU/Linux OS Provides a Complete Digital Forensic Environment

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Marius Nestor
Oct 31, 2016

Dubbed “Blazar,” powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel and Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) operating system CAINE 8.0 arrives after one year of hard work with UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and Secure Boot support, renewed and new tools, including the Systemback open-source and simple system backup and restore application. Among the includes tools, we can mention XAll 1.5, MemDump, XRCed, PEFrame, Tilda, Shrew, RecuperaBit, Gigolo, Jeex, Samba, SQLParse, Yara, wxHexEditor, ADB and LibMobileDevice, PffLib, HashDB, imount, vhdimount, vhdiinfo, iscsitarget, img_map, and vblade. New RBFstab and Mounter, live preview Caja scripts, and a root file system spoofing patch were also implemented.

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Marius Nestor

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