openSUSE:DFIR Live CDs/Thumb Drives

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The DFIR (Digital Forensic / Incident Response) community utilizes Boot CDs and Thumb Drives to performs its activities. openSUSE provides the ultimate ability to customize a boot CDs and thumb drives for the needs of the DFIR community.
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DFIR Boot Media

Many Digital Forensics / Incident Response professionals depend on boot disks. there are many to choose from based on Linux in general. One of the more powerful boot disks is SIFT from SANS. If none of the disks here appear satisfactory, it should be considered.

Suse Studio Gallery

Suse Studio is an automated appliance disk creator. An appliance can be a boot CD, thumb drive image, vmware instance, etc.

It includes a gallery of publicly available appliances. Getting an account on Suse Studio is free.

The below appliances have been published via the gallery and are available for download. In addition, anyone with a Suse Studio account can clone the below and customize their clone as they desire.

If you are interested in any of the below, but feel they are missing specific packages you would like, see the DFIR portal page for a complete list of both disk and network forensic applications available in openSUSE.

Ethical Hacking tools are not yet documented there.

A Computer Forensic appliance --- DFIR openSUSE GNOME desktop

DFIR openSUSE GNOME desktop - http://susestudio.com/a/eD1wrT/dfir-opensuse-gnome-desktop-32bit

DFIR is focused on computer forensic tools, but it also has a number of tools from the network forensics toolset.

Due to it's focus on computer forensics, it does not have the network interface enabled by default.

A Network Forensic appliance --- CSI Linux

CSI Linux - http://susestudio.com/a/4dMNWp/csi-linux

CSI Linux is based on openSUSE 11.3, It has both disk and network forensic tools, but appears to focus on network tools.

A Ethical Hacking appliance - Cybertrack

Cybertrack - http://susestudio.com/a/ZOs5EV/cybertrack

Cybertrack is based on openSUSE 11.4, It is focused on ethical hacking tools. It appears that all of its applications come from the main official repositories.

A System Recovery appliance - 84-hope

84-hope - http://susestudio.com/a/1nsH3k/84-hope

84-hope is based on openSUSE 11.3, It is focused on repair of unbootable/damaged computer systems after a system crash, manage/rescue networks(win/nix), create and restore backups and of course undelete removed or damaged files and partitions on cd/dvd, ext, ntfs, vfat file systems.

84-hope uses applications from various home repositories. Packages in home repositories are the least trust-worthy on OBS and therefore 84-hope should be used with caution.

Non openSUSE Boot CDs

SIFT - http://computer-forensics.sans.org/community/downloads



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