What's new in DEFT 2017.1
Feb 14, 2017
- Among the biggest features: the support to NVMExpress memories (Mac Book ed. 2015), the eMMC memories and the UEFI support.
New in DEFT 8.2 (Aug 10, 2014)
- Fixed a bug that in some conditions prevented the system to be installed;
- Fixed the bug of DNS on /etc/resolv.conf;
- Fixed the bug of the apt-get sources.list;
- Improved device recognition in live-mode;
- Updated all packages to the latest Ubuntu release available for Quantal.
New in DEFT 8.1 (Apr 23, 2014)
- File Manager: we Implemented the disk mount’s status. ( if the disk is mounted in RO/mode the eject button will be green, if it’s RW/mode (a futher confermation will be required before going in this mode) the eject button will be orange,
- Full support for Bitlocker encrypted disks (thanks libbde!),
- The Sleuthkit 4.1.3,
- Digital Forensics Framework 1.3,
- Full support for Android and iOS 7.1 logical acquisitions ( libmobiledevice & adb ),
- JD GUI,
- Skype Extractor 0.1.8.8,
- Maltego 3.4 Tungsten,
- a new version of the OSINT browser,
- Fixed a bug in the /etc/apt/sources.list,
- full update of the deft packages and DART 2 software and tools,
New in DEFT 8 Beta (Jul 2, 2013)
- 64 bit 3.5.0-30 Gnu Linux Kernel – brought down the limit of 4GB, Now you can use DEFT Linux on systems that have up to 25t6 TB of ram
- The Sleuthkit 4 (the stable version of DEFT 8 will include The Sleuthkit 4.1) and Autopsy 2 – Ready for Autopsy 3 on Linux (only for Law Enforcement)
- Digital Forensics Framework 1.3
- Libewf and AFFlib full support
- Xmount and Mount Ewf
- Guymager 0.7.1, Cyclone 0.2 and Esximager
- Recoll 1.19.5, software for indexing
- Bulk extractor 1.3.1 with Bulk extractor GUI 1.3
- Dumpy 0.2, an intelligence parsing tool to extract sensible data from anonymous dump – many thanks to Gianni Amato (guelfoweb) for the exclusive right
- Skype extractor
- Log2timeline 0.65
- iPBA 2 and Lib iMobile device 1.1.5 (full iOS 6.* support)
- Fastboot - re-flash Android partition tool
- Google Chrome Open Source INTelligence browser and TOR
- Maltego Radium (here there is a problem, we are waiting the Paterva support to fix it, sorry for that)
- Xplico 1.0.1 and CapAnalysis
New in DEFT 7.2 (Oct 24, 2012)
- Virtual appliance based on Vmware 5 with USB3 support
- Kernel 3.0.0-26
- Autopsy 3 beta 5 (using Wine – please note that you need minimum 1GB ram)
- Log2tmeline 0.65
- Guymager 0.6.12-1
- Vmfs support
- Some mirror fix
New in DEFT 7.1 (Apr 3, 2012)
- Bug Fix:
- Hb4most and xterm’s problem fixed
- Gparted
- Updated packages:
- libewf-20120304
- bulk_extractor-1.2.0.tar.gz
- guymager 0.6.5-1
- iPhone Backup Analyzer 10/2012
- Xplico 1.0
- Computer Forensics side new tools:
- UsnJrnl-parser
- lslnk
- New implementations:
- After the great work done by Emanuele Gentili and Sandro Rossetti, we are delighted to introduce you the Cyber Intelligence side implementations and we’d like to remember you today there is no other freely distributed system that allows you to perform Intelligence tasks:
- OSINT:
- “OSINT Chrome browser”: we customized Chrome with several plugins and resources to perform ‘Open Source Intelligence’ related activities,
- Network Information Gathering:
- Host
- Nslookup
- Dig
- Nmap
- Zenmap
- Netcat
- Snmpcheck
- Nbtscan
- Cadaver
- Traceroute
- Hping3
- Xprobe
- Scapy
- Netdiscover
- Wireless Information Gathering:
- Kismet
- Web Application Information Gathering:
- Whatweb
- Cmsident
- Dirbuster
- Burpsuite
- Customized Chrome Browser (at least 1gb ram required)
- Social Information Gathering:
- Creepy
- Snmpcheck
- PieSpy
- Irssi
- Identity Protection Tools:
- TOR-Browser
- Anonymouse (http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html)
- OSINT Global Framework:
- Maltego
- Proactive Resources
New in DEFT 7 (Feb 1, 2012)
- Based on Lubuntu 11.10
- Installable Distro
- Linux kernel 3.0.0-12, USB 3 ready
- Libewf 20100226
- Afflib 3.6.14
- TSK 3.2.3
- Autopsy 2.24
- Digital Forensic Framework 1.2
- PTK Forensic 1.0.5 DEFT edition
- Pyflag
- Maltego CE
- KeepNote 0.7.6
- Mobius Forensic
- Xplico 0.7.1
- Scalpel 2
- Hunchbackeed Foremost 0.6
- Findwild 1.3
- Bulk Extractor 1.1
- Dropbox Reader
- Emule Forensic 1.0
- Guymager 0.6.3-1
- Dhash 2
- Cyclone wizard acquire tool
- Ipddump
- Iphone Analyzer
- Iphone backup analyzer
- SQLite Database Browser 2.0b1
- BitPim 1.0.7
- Bbwhatsapp database converter
- Reggripper
- Creepy 0.1.9
- Hydra 7.1
- Log2timeline 0.60
- Wine 1.3.28
New in DEFT 6.1 (Apr 15, 2011)
- Start faster by 15% over the previous version
- Optimization initrd
- RegTime.py
- Recovery.py
- Fixed:
- Fixed problem of large pcap file uploads in Xplico
- Revision of all DEFT Extra’s tools to comply with their License.
- DEFT 6 can boot from USB
New in DEFT 6 (Jan 12, 2011)
- [new] Update FTK Imager from 2.9 to 3
- [new] Update Digital Forensic Framework from 0.8 to 0.9
- [new] Added Xmount 0.4.4
- [new] Added mount_ewf utility
- [bug fix] VWrong Guymager release, now is the 0.5.7
- [bug fix] Fixed iso md5 file check
- [bug fix] Fixed some grammatical errors
New in DEFT 5.1 (May 4, 2010)
- Update: Sleuthkit 3.1.1 and Autopsy 2.24
- Update: Xplico to 0.5.7 (100% support of SIP – RTP codec g711, g729, g722, g723 and g726, SDP and RTCP)
- Update: Initrd
- Bug fix: Dhash report (reports were not generated)
- Bug fix: DEFT Extra bug fix (a few tools did not work if the operator click on their icons, added the dd tool for x64 machines)
New in DEFT 5 (Nov 10, 2009)
- an advanced file and directory researcher
- foremost, scalpel and photorec carving tools
- a complete support for the must used file systems
- a complete support for logical volume manager
- a complate support for afflib and ewflib support
- a very powerful tools for network forensic as Xplico, wireshark, kismet, ettercap and nmap
- a very powerful tool for identify file type from their binary signatures (TrID)
- the last version of ophcrack, the password cracker based on rainbow tables and john the ripper password cracker
- chkrootkit, rkhunter and exploit scanner
- clam 4.15 virus scanner
- steganography detection software as outgess
- tool for screenshot as take screen shot and video screen capture as record my desktop
- deft-mount script for mount device in read only