Hide your tracks

Noted methods used by hackers to hide their tracks:

• Encrypt keystrokes with tools such as Keyscrambler to prevent a keylogger from recording their IP address, Mac address, open ports, operating system, installed applications, default web browser, visited URLs, making screenshots …

• Create a locked screen saver to prevent live forensics

• Disable hibernation

• Disable and remove USB logs

• Disable time stamps

• Disable System Restore Points (Windows)

• Disable Debugging Upon Failure (Windows)

• Disable Event Logging (Windows)

• Disable sending error reports to third parties.

• Hide encrypted files in an encrypted container on a USB stick.

• Use SSH (Secure Shell) when connecting to a remote system.

• Use high anonymity proxies and VPN’s that do not log.

• Chain multiple proxies or chain VPN’s or use a VPN together with a high-anonymity proxy for an increased privacy advantage.

• Spoof and mimic a user-agent to hide the browsers’ identification.

• Destroy or alter audit trails to hide tracks of having been on a target.

• After a hack, delete any wireless network keys or passphrases, network share passwords and passwords for VPN or dial-up.

• After a hack, shred all related data, delete the entire hard drive, and install a fresh operating system from bootable disc or USB drive (erase and format the drive’s partitions) to return to normal function.

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