File Carving and File Recovery with DiskDigger

DiskDigger is a tool that allows you to recover deleted files off a FAT or NTFS drive. It has 2 modes of operation: In the first, it just looks at the FAT/MFT to find files marked as deleted, in much the same way that the tool called Restoration does. In the second mode it does a file carve down the drive looking at the raw bits and finding the known headers and footers of various file types, much like PhotoRec. While PhotoRec seems a little more powerful, DiskDigger is easy to use and it's preview functionality is quite nice. This video will cover the basics of recovering deleted files with DiskDigger.

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Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net