14 DAY TRIAL // The developers of the Ubuntu-based CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) GNU/Linux distribution announced the availability of a new major release, CAINE 9.0 "Quantum."
Coming almost a year after the CAINE 8.0 "Blazar" release, CAINE 9.0 "Quantum" introduces numerous new programs, scripts, and tools, among which we can mention VolDiff, The Harvester, NBTempoX, SafeCopy, RegRipper, PFF tools, pListUtil, Mouseemu, Tinfoleak, regfmount, Infoga, OSINT, WinAudit, and MWSnap.
It also includes the popular TestDisk and PhotoRec data recovery tools, an NTFS Journal viewer, Windows File Analyzer, Arsenal Image Mounter, FTK Imager, USB Write Protector, JpegView, NBTempoW, the Nirsoft suite and launcher, as well as the VLC Media Player application as default video player.
SSH server is now disabled by default
An interesting change in the CAINE 9.0 release is the fact that the SSH (Secure Shell) server has been disabled by default, probably for security reasons. To enable it, you'll have to read the manual page via a terminal emulator. This update also includes Autopsy 2.24, which renames "GNU strings" to srch_strings.
On the Windows side of things, CAINE 9.0 "Quantum" offers several improvements and new tools for incident response and live analysis of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Of course, there are also many other bug fixes and updated components, so we recommend using this version over previous ones.
CAINE 9.0 is available for download right now on our web portal if you want to take it for a spin. It can be used for all sorts of forensic-related tasks on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. You should read our in-depth review of CAINE or visit the distro's page to get started with this special GNU/Linux distribution. Please update as soon as possible if you're using CAINE 8.0.