A lot of new applications were added to this latest version

Oct 6, 2012 09:59 GMT  ·  By

CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment), a GNU/Linux live distribution created as a project of Digital Forensics is now at version 3.0.

CAINE 3.0 provides a complete forensic solution with the help of a friendly graphical interface. According to the developer, it offers an interoperable environment that supports the digital investigator during the four phases of the digital investigation and a semi-automated compilation of the final report.

The project is completely open source and anyone can take the responsibilities from a previous developer or project manager.

Highlight of CAINE 3.0:

• Linux kernel was updated to version 3.2.0-31; • MATE desktop environment was updated to version 1.4; • LightDM was added; • iPhone Backup Analyzer, a tool designed to allow the user to simply browse through the contents of the backup folder of an iPhone, was added; • ExifTool, a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information, was added; • TCP Flow Recorder, an application that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores the data in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis or debugging, was added; • SQLite Browser, visual tool used to create, design and edit database files compatible with SQLite, was added; • DocAnalyzer, a tool that provides document parsing and analysis, was added to the distro; • PEFrame, a tool to perform static analysis on (portable executable) malware, was added; • MDB Tools was added. It includes programs to export schema and data to other databases such as MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL, and others. • Wireshark was updated to version 1.6.7; • Mozilla Firefox Browser was update to version 15.0.1; • VLC media player was update to version 2.0.3; • Forensic Registry Editor was updated to version 0.1.0 Beta 4.

A complete list of changes, updates, new features, and applications can be found in the official announcement.

Download CAINE 3.0 right now from Softpedia.