Bootable CD-ROMS - Linux Based

There are many Linux based bootable CD-ROMs (or Live CDs) with forensic tools, such as:

  • Paladin - linux distro with many forensic GUI tools, including Autopsy.

  • DEFT (Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit) is a customized distribution of the Ubuntu live Linux CD.

  • Caine (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is an Italian GNU/Linux live distribution created as a Digital Forensics project (Installation and resolving Stuck Boot-Repair).

  • Kali Linux is an open-source, Debian-based Linux distribution geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering

Create a bootable CD-ROM:

  • find and download the ISO file.

  • use a CD-burnin program to write the ISO file to the CD.

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