DEFT (Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit) is a customised distribution of the Xubuntu live Linux CD.

DEFT (Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit) is a customised distribution of the Xubuntu live Linux CD.

It is an easy-to-use system that includes excellent hardware detection and some of the best open-source applications dedicated to incident response and computer forensics.

Recent releases:

• 2010-05-04: Distribution Release: DEFT Linux 5.1
• 2009-11-09: Distribution Release: DEFT Linux 5

Update:

Stefano Fratepietro has announced the release of DEFT Linux 5.1, an Ubuntu-based live CD featuring some of the best open-source applications dedicated to incident response and computer forensics: "DEFT Linux 5.1 is ready. What's new? Update - Sleuth Kit 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; Dhash report bug fix (reports were not generated); DEFT Extra bug fix (a few applications do not work if the operator click their icons, added the dd tool for x86_64 machines). Since 3 June we have been developing DEFT Linux 6 (based on Lubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat') that will be released on 2 December 2010."

Read the full release announcement for more information.

Download (MD5) the live CD image from here: deftv5.1.iso (698MB, MD5).

What’s new in DEFT 5.1?

* 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)
* Kernel update
* Dhash report bug fix (reports were not generated)
* DEFT Extra bug fix (a few applications do not work if the operator clic their icons, added the dd tool for x64 machines)

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