(1888PressRelease)
February 26, 2007 - FAIRMONT, West Virginia – February 26, 2007 – Backbone Security’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC) is pleased to announce the release of Version 3.0 of SAFDB. With the fingerprints, or hash values, of every file artifact associated with 625 steganography applications, SAFDB is the world’s largest commercially available hash set exclusive to digital steganography and other information hiding applications. The database is used by Federal, state and local law enforcement; intelligence community; and private sector computer forensic examiners to detect the presence or use of steganography and extract hidden information.
Version 3.0 contains hash values for each file artifact associated with the 625 steganography applications computed with the CRC-32, MD-5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 algorithms.
A free extract of SAFDB with MD5 hashes only is available to qualifying U.S. law enforcement, government, and intelligence agency computer forensic examiners.
With the release of Version 3.0, Backbone is also pleased to announce the free extract of SAFDB is now available to computer forensic examiners in international law enforcement agencies. The extract is available in formats that can be imported into EnCase, FTK, Hashkeeper, ILook, and ProDiscover.
For information on registering for access to the free MD5 extract of SAFDB V3.0, please visit www.sarc-wv.com.
In addition to SAFDB, the SARC has also developed state-of-the-art steganalysis tools for detecting the presence or use of steganography and has developed the world’s first commercially available network security appliance capable of detecting artifacts and signatures of steganography in real-time.
“Interest in our steganalysis products has literally exploded in the past few months,” according to Bart Guerreri, Backbone’s Chairman of the Board, “ which is clearly an indication that awareness of the threat from insider use of steganography to steal sensitive, classified, or proprietary information is on the rise.”
Glenn Watt, President and CEO of Backbone further added that “the threat from steganography is real and growing as is succinctly stated in the Federal Plan for Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development released in April of last year. As computer forensic tools continue to get better and examiners get better at using those tools to find ever more digital evidence, cyber criminals will adapt by finding and using more technologically sophisticated information hiding techniques.”
