HTCIA 3rd Annual Asia Pacific Regional Training Conference
Lucky Draw

One of the features of the HTCIA Asia Pacific Training Conferences held to date has been the generosity of our speakers and sponsors allowing for some fantastic giveaways on the final afternoon. Some of the prizes feature forensic tools which are many times more valuable than the conference fee!

This year's lucky draw prizes are being listed here in order of when we hear about them - more will be added as we approach the event:

Two copies of Windows 7 Professional kindly donated by Microsoft HK
One copy (dongle) for Virtual Forensic Computing (VFC) kindly donated by MD5 Ltd in the UK
One copy of EnCase Portable kindly donated by Guidance Software Inc. EnCase Portable is a data collection solution that leverages the powerful search and collection capabilities of EnCase®, delivered on a USB drive.  The solution searches a targeted computer and automatically collects data, including documents, Internet history and artifacts, images, other digital evidence, and even entire hard drives. 
One copy of EnCase Forensic kindly donated by Guidance Software Inc.

From the simplest requirements to the most complex, EnCase® Forensic is the premier computer forensic application on the market. It gives investigators the ability to image a drive and preserve it in a forensic manner using the EnCase evidence file format (LEF or E01), a digital evidence container validated and approved by courts worldwide.


EnCase Forensic also contains a full suite of analysis, bookmarking and reporting features. Guidance Software and third party vendors provide support for expanded capabilities to ensure that forensic examiners have the most comprehensive set of utilities
One copy of NetResident kindly donated by TamoSoft.

NetResident is a network content monitoring program that captures, stores, analyzes, and reconstructs network events such as e-mail messages, Web pages, downloaded files, instant messages and VoIP conversations. NetResident uses advanced monitoring technology to capture the data on the network, saves it to a database, reconstructs it, and displays this content in an easy-to-understand format.

One copy of SmartWhois kindly donated by TamoSoft

SmartWhois is a useful network information utility that allows you to look up all the available information about an IP address, hostname or domain, including country, state or province, city, name of the network provider, administrator and technical support contact information

One copy of Softblock 1.0.1 kindly donated by Blackbag Technologies inc.

BlackBag's SoftBlock is a write-blocking software application that identifies devices upon connection and mounts them, depending on user preference, in either a forensically sound read-only manner or a conventional read-write configuration. A kernel-based utility, SoftBlock offers Mac forensic examiners flexibility, security and speed in previewing and analyzing evidence across any number of devices. 

One copy of SkypeAlyzer kindly donated by Paul Sanderson of Sanderson Forensics Ltd.

Analyse Skype chat logs, contacts lists, SMS messages with SkypeAlyzer a forensics tool designed to work with both the old Skype database files – found in a series of .dbb files and the newer Skype database files (main.db).