Month: September 2012

We’ve released BitCurator 0.1.5, which you can find on the Release page.

BitCurator 0.1.5 is an upgrade/maintenance release as we prepare to add reporting functionality in the next few weeks. Early reporting functionality will appear in 0.2, currently scheduled for mid-October. The current maintenance release includes updates to bulk extractor, scripting fixes for live data triage in Nautilus, and security patches.

Note that the virtual machine is now packaged as a .tar.gz file. Windows users will need a 3rd party file archiving utility such as 7zip to extract the VM.

Current versions of the BitCurator requirements documents have been posted. You can find them on the Release page.

These documents were originally prepared during the planning stages of BitCurator, and subsequently revised following feedback from our Professional Experts Panel and Development Advisory Group.

Wondering what the future of Digital Forensics XML looks like? You can find recent work by NIST at http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/Downloads.htm (with a draft schema from based on the original spec for fileobjects at http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/DFXML/fileobject.xsd). You can also find ongoing work as part of CyBOX at MITRE at http://cybox.mitre.org/.

BitCurator depends on DFXML output when producing reports on private and personally identifying information, disk and file formats and organization. As part of our commitment to identifying and implementing ways in which DFXML can be used to enhance the description of and provenance records associated with archival born-digital materials, we’ve joined in a discussion with NIST, MITRE, and other interested parties on the future of standards-compliant DFXML.