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Resources

Cybercrime Units in Ohio
And Nearby Regions*

Akron-Summit High-Tech Computer Crime Task Force
330-375-2675
330-375-2432 (fax)
web site
(supporting Akron and Summit County)

Cyber Crimes Task Force of Central Ohio
500 South Front Street
Suite 1050
Columbus, OH 43215
(614)224-1183
Web site

Columbus Police Division
614-645-4910

FBI CART (Cincinnati Office - main)
http://cincinnati.fbi.gov

FBI CART (Cleveland Office - main)
http://cleveland.fbi.gov

Miami Valley Regional Crime Lab - Regional Computer Crime Unit
937-225-4990
(supporting Dayton and Miami Valley region)

North Central Indiana Cyber-Crime Investigations
501 South Adams Street
Marion, IN 46953
cybercrime@grantcounty.net
(supported by Indiana State Police and Grant Co. SO)

Northeast Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
216-443-8096
(supporting Cleveland and surrounding region)

Ohio Attorney General's Computer Crime Task Force
Scott Longo, Principal Attorney, Assistant Attorney General
Jeff Clark, Chair, Assistant Attorney General
140 East Town St., 14th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
614.644.7233

Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation - Cyber Crime Unit
London Lab 740-845-2411
(statewide)

Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation - Cyber Crime Unit
Richfield Lab 330-659-4600
(statewide)

Ohio State Highway Patrol - Computer Crime Unit
Office of Investigative Services
Computer Crimes Unit
614-728-2296
(Statewide Assistance)

Regional Electronic Computer Investigation Unit (RECI)
513-946-6689
(supporting Cincinnati, Hamilton County, and surrounding tri-state area)

The ISP List

Go here for the Online Services List originated by James Nerlinger and now maintained by SEARCH.

2002 Salt Fork Regional Conference Materials
Additional presenter materials will be placed here as they become available. Protected files can be opened with the password provided on the attendee CD.

DOS USB Drivers, v. 4.4 (249kb zipped file) Includes driver, config, text, info files. USB 2.0 external devices reported to work well and fast with Safeback and Ghost
SMART Forensics (64kb pdf file) Using Linux VMware and SMART to Create a Virtual Computer to Recreate a Suspect's Computer by SSA Ernest Baca, US Customs Service
SMART Forensics (404kb OpenOffice file) Same as above
SMART (1.97 Mb tar.gz.gpg file) time limited; gpg encrypted for Salt Fork regional conference attendees only.

Buckeye Bits, The Official Newsletter of the Ohio HTCIA

A portable document format (pdf) reader is required to view the newsletters.

Vol. 1 No. 3, December 2000 (449 kb zipped file)
Vol. 1 No. 2, Fall 2000 (490kb zipped file)
Vol. 1 No. 1, Summer 2000 (827kb zipped file)

Documents

Recommended Guidelines for Computer Forensic Analysis Evidence Submission (108kb pdf). Also available in Word doc format.

Ohio BCI procedure for seizing computers
(from the 2000 distribution of BCI's Physical Evidence Training Manual)

iLook Investigator

How to Use iLook Investigator v7.0 (2.3 Mb zipped PowerPoint presentation)


Introduction to Linux for Law Enforcement

These materials are provided courtesy of former chapter member Barry Grundy. They have been used in Barry's Linux presentations at NASA and FLETC SCERS. The diskette image provides a small forensic exercise for practice using Linux. Instructions are in the readme file.

The Law Enforcement Introduction to Linux, version 2.0.5 (108 pages, pdf,2.7 MB)
"practical.floppy.dd" Practical exercise (1.44MB)  

Readme file
image_carve.raw
logs.tar.gz
md5sums.txt
NOTE: the 137MB "able2.tar.gz" practical exercise must be downloaded from the NASA ftp site

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