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Jul 3, 2013 13:27 GMT  ·  By

DEFT, a Linux distribution based on Linux kernel 3.x and the DART (Digital Advanced Response Toolkit) with the best freeware Windows Computer Forensic tools, is now at version 8 Beta.

DEFT stands for Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit and it's based on Lubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal).

Highlights of DEFT Linux 8 Beta:

• The Linux kernel has been updated to version 3.5.0-30 and it's available for the 64-bit architecture; • The Sleuthkit 4 and Autopsy 2 – Ready for Autopsy tools have been implemented; • The Digital Forensics Framework has been updated to version 1.3; • Complete support has been added for Libewf and AFFlib; • Recoll has been updated to version Recoll 1.19.5.

More details about this release are available in the official announcement.

Download DEFT Linux 8 Beta right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.