Virus outbreaks are always gruesome: people, animals or computer systems get infected within a short time. Of course, viruses spreading across our physical world always take priority over the virtual world. Nevertheless, everyone should keep doing their job, which includes all kinds of malware researchers, digital forensics experts and incident responders. At times like this, we all realize how important it is to be able to work remotely. However, the duties of a security researcher or a digital forensics expert pushes them to travel, visit victims or collect digital evidence in an ongoing hunt for malware artefacts. What can we do to reduce the need for travel? Of course, keep looking for replacement of our physical routines with remote ones.
It is about two and half years since we first open-sourced a tool for remote digital forensics called Bitscout. Born while I was with Digital Forensics Lab at INTERPOL, the tool has evolved and helped us in many cyberinvestigations. Based on the widely popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, it is packed with forensics and malware analysis tools created by a large number of excellent developers around the world.
What can it do? Well, we have tried to identify what it is that it *cannot* do and other expensive commercial tools used in digital forensics can. We have not really been able to find anything! Moreover, we have built so many new interesting techniques that are not available in commercial tools that it has every chance to replace commercial solutions in your organization if it gets into the right hands.
Let me just remind you about the approach we use in Bitscout:
Bitscout is completely FREE, which helps reducing your forensics budget! Yay!
It is designed to be remote, which also saves ..
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