Welcome
At Fields Associates, we specialise in the recovery of the digital “fingerprints” left by the routine use of computers. Even erased files can be recovered and examined, ensuring that you have all the evidence available to support your investigation.
Established in 1999, we have earned an impressive reputation in the detection, analysis and presentation of computer evidence in the broadest range of criminal activities. These include fraud, extortion, data theft, child pornography and Internet abuse.
Our clients include legal firms, international banks, blue chip companies, law enforcement and military organisations.
Covering Tracks
The final stage of penetration test or ethical hacking is to check whether the ethical hacker can erase or cover the mark that has been created in earlier stages of the test.
At present, many successful security breaches are made but never detected. This includes cases where firewalls and vigilant log checking were in place. From this stage we can establish what attacks and exploits a hacker is able to cover up and which we can easily detect.
In order that the target company’s security engineer or network administrator cannot detect the evidence of attack, the hacker needs to delete logs files and replace system binaries with Trojans. The attacker can use automated scripts and automated tools for hiding attack evidence and also to create backdoors for further attack.
