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 Macintosh Evidence Gathering and Analysis (MEGA)
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              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              Odyssey Research Associates, Inc.  DBA ATC-NY
Award #
              2007-DN-BX-K020
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    Ithaca, NY
Awardee County
              Tompkins
Congressional District
              23
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2007
Total funding (to date)
              $574,943
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 07 Electronic Crime and Digital Evidence Recovery: Invited Full Proposals
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2007, $474,943)
This project will develop an extensible Macintosh Evidence Gathering and Analysis tool suite for investigators to assess and collect data on dual-boot Mac systems, and to gather and analyze forensically-relevant data specific to Mac OS X.  MEGA will serve law enforcement and NIJ by allowing an investigator to quickly assess the operating systems installed on a Mac OS X disk image or machine, including the last boot time and other information for each, in a forensically-sound manner. ca/ncf
Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2008, $100,000)
In the spring of 2007, the E-Crime Technology Work Group identified Macintosh forensics as a priority.  Forensic examiners observed an increase in Mac computers because of the dual boot capability of MAC OS-X10 operating systems (boots to Macintosh or Windows XP). Mac Evidence Gathering and Analysis (MEGA) will gather Mac OS X specific information that is largely ignored by existing tools, such as configuration, log, and cache data written by the operating system (OS), other OSs present via dual boot or virtual machines, and information available through the built-in Spotlight search facility. This project contributes to the reduction of crime laboratory backlogs in processing computer evidence by greatly reducing the time necessary to forensically examine a Macintosh machine. ca/ncf


  
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                      Mac MarshalTM: A Tool for Mac OS X Operating System and Application Forensics
                  MEGA: A tool for Mac OS X operating system and application forensics

  
Date Created: September 5, 2007
    
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