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	<title>Checkmate</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>First conviction under IT Act</title>
		<link>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2008/02/first-conviction-under-it-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2008/02/first-conviction-under-it-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Case Studies</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, we have our first conviction under the IT Act 2000 in India. After more than a 100 cases being lodged, and about half of them actually reaching the courts, we have our first conviction of an orthopaedic surgeon in Chennai being convicted of recording and uploading pornographic images. He and his brother in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forensics Awareness week at Mumbai</title>
		<link>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2008/01/forensics-awareness-week-at-mumbai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2008/01/forensics-awareness-week-at-mumbai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Network Forensics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Directorate of Forensic Science laboratory, Government of Maharashtra Mumbai is holding a forensics awareness week from 7th to 11th Jan 2008.
The Director &#8212; Dr.Mrs R.Krishnamurthy is pleased to invite persons from the corporate world especially those who are working in the area of Risk management, frauds detection and In house Investigations to their lab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USB Forensics</title>
		<link>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2008/01/usb-forensics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 07:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kush</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fundamentals</category>
	<category>Compromise Detection</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this article we will learn on how to do the forensic of USB devices, how to correlate the USB device with the drive letter and how to see at what time the USB device was plugged in and plugged out. This article may be very useful for the military forces as they can easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian IT Act 2000 - An Insight</title>
		<link>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/08/it-act-2000-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/08/it-act-2000-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fundamentals</category>
	<category>Case Studies</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[from NII Consulting 
The IT Act 2000 is a large repository of fine print fraught with judicial jargon and varying legal implications.
To quote from the preamble of the Act,
&#8220;An Act to provide legal recognition for the transactions carried our by means of electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication, commonly referred to as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHFI Workshop</title>
		<link>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/07/chfi-workshop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/07/chfi-workshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
		
	<category>Network Forensics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From NII Consulting 
NII Consulting is glad to announce its fourth hands-on workshop for EC-Council’s “Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)” certificate course. As an Accredited Training Provider (ATP), NII is certified to teach the authorized curricula for security technologies.

The CHFI certification is awarded after successfully passing the EC0 312-49 exam. (The training fees include exam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Importance of &#8220;thumbs.db&#8221; in digital forensic world</title>
		<link>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/06/importance-of-thumbsdb-in-digital-forensic-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/06/importance-of-thumbsdb-in-digital-forensic-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kush</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Network Forensics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting 
Are you working as a cyber crime investigator and looking for something which can prove in court of law that there was some pornographic content on the suspect&#8217;s machine? Let me help you out in this case.There is a file with a name &#8220;thumbs.db&#8221; which is automatically generated by Windows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume Boot Sector Format of FAT</title>
		<link>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/05/volume-boot-sector-format-of-fat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/05/volume-boot-sector-format-of-fat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 18:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kush</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Network Forensics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting 
There are times when you don’t have sufficient tools to understand the file system. At that time your knowledge in field of digital forensics will play a crucial role. In this article we will study a volume boot sector format of FAT32 file system and will see how to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dare to delete my files!</title>
		<link>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/05/dare-to-delete-my-files/</link>
		<comments>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/05/dare-to-delete-my-files/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 07:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikhil Wagholikar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fundamentals</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nikhil Wagholikar, NII Consulting
Introduction
One of the recommended file-system for Linux is Ext-3. Ext-3 file-system might not be as robust and powerful as compared to the Microsoft NTFS file-system but it has some built-in features that makes Linux a power performer.
Here we will explore one such feature of Ext-3 file-system here. This feature is actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Extractor</title>
		<link>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/02/universal-extractor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/02/universal-extractor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikhil Wagholikar</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Tools</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nikhil Wagholikar, NII Consulting
1.     Need
Many a time during Forensics investigation or during Reverse Engineering, we come across the need where we have to check or extract the contents of an executable file. If the executable file is in human readable format (ex : a UNIX file having permissions –rwx-r-x-r-x) then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recycle Bin Forensics</title>
		<link>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/02/recycle-bin-forensics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2007/02/recycle-bin-forensics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kush</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Network Forensics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting 
Have you ever thought of what happens when you hit the delete button?
Delete: When we simply delete a file we are throwing that file in the recycle bin of that particular volume. For example, if file resides in C:\ drive having  FAT32 as file system  and we delete [...]]]></description>
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