Software, operating systems, scripts and other tools

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Autocrypt is a set of guidelines for developers to achieve convenient end-to-end-encryption of e-mails. It specifies how e-mail programs negotiate encryption capabilities using regular e-mails. For users, Autocrypt Level 1 offers single-click, opt-in encryption, eases encrypted group communications, and provides a way to setup encryption on multiple devices.

Buscador is a Linux Virtual Machine that is pre-configured for online investigators. Installation instructions to be fount on the site.

Analyze suspicious office documents to detect embedded executables or exploits. Find encrypted embedded executables common to APT malware attacks. Enhance your email or network malware detection in line with your existing commercial AV product by adding cryptam to your network to detect new and emerging threats with traditionally low AV detection rates.

Internet search engine, protecting privacy.

Forensic browser able to quickly and easly capture web pages that are to be brought to trial in criminal and civil proceedings. FAW acquires websites of any type: HTML5, CMS, static, dynamic, with frames, blogs, e-commerce, portals, social network, etc. FAW allow access to any Social Network and aquires all of its contents. FAW can also acquire all the resurces available from Intranet networks, such as IP Camera, Router configuration, Firewall, Switch and NAS.

A wonderful , graphical interactive checklist of all information gathering sites and tools. Many tools do however exist on this site already.

OSIRT is a completely free and open source application for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 that has been designed to aid law enforcement officials to perform open source research on the web.

Get going with PGP on Linux using Thunderbird.

Get going with PGP on OSX using Thunderbird.

Get going with PGP on Windows using Thunderbird.

Internet search engine, protecting privacy.

SecureDrop is an open source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can install to securely accept documents from anonymous sources. It was originally coded by the late Aaron Swartz and is now managed by Freedom of the Press Foundation.

This script is being used for batch looking up multiple IP numbers. Very good to use if you need to look up more than 10 IP numbers. The output file is a CSV file displaying the IP, ISP and owner (if available). Needs to be run in a Ubuntu environment using the terminal. Read the how to first!

Encrypted messaging

OS X software that can suck the most from a web server / web page, even those that are hidden. Other alternatives: Intellitamper and Black Widow (Windows).

Internet search engine, protecting privacy.

Sunder, a desktop application for dividing access of secret information between multiple participants.

Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB stick or a DVD. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity, and helps you to:

  • use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship;
  • all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
  • leave no trace on the computer you are using unless you ask it explicitly;
  • use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, emails and instant messaging.

The Tor Browser software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.