Forensic Downloads

CaseNotes

The purpose of CaseNotes is to provide a single lightweight application program to run on the Microsoft Windows platform to allow forensic analysts and examiners of any discipline to securely record their contemporaneous notes electronically.

The main features are:

• Flexible configuration of case meta-data (case details, like the reference number, etc.)
• Secure "write-once, read-many" style of case note data capture
• Full audit trail of case note data entry and meta data edits in a self contained log
• Tamper evident storage of data using internal MD5 hashes for all data entered
• No use of heavy database technologies – all you need is the program and your case file
• Use of AES 512bit encryption (optional) to further secure data in sensitive cases
• Storage of configuration information in a user editable text based .ini file
• Support for running multiple copies of CaseNotes at the same time
• Tested and works in languages other than English (Japanese, Russian, Greek, Italian, ...)
• Supports changing time zones and any standard Windows date or time format
• Tested on Windows XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista & Win7. (sorry if you use a Mac).
• It's free! That means no dongles and no restrictions on how many copies you use!

Click here to download CaseNotes.

VideoTriage

VideoTriage is designed to produce thumbnails of selected movie files so that the movie doesn't need to be watched. It's based on the VLC libraries so any movie file type supported by VLC will work with VideoTriage.

Use EnCase to export out all the video files in your case, then run VideoTriage to play each video at up to 5x speed and to create thumbnails every n seconds (configurable). These thumbnails get placed into a new folder with the same name as the video. When the video is complete, it is moved into the thumbnail folder and the next movie is processed.

Let this run overnight and the following day, simply scan through the thumbnails to determine the content of the movie. I recently had a case with 860 very long movies which VT dealt with over several days. It took less than a day to work through the thumbnails and pick out the relevant material. I estimate it saved me about 9 days of manually watching the films.

Click here to download VideoTriage.

FragView

This a very simple viewer application that allows a recursive list of html, jpg and Flash files to be viewed in an adjacent pane without having to manually navigate to each one individually and open it. A great time saver, especially for previewing exported webmail fragments!

Click here to download FragView.