jalaffa Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Microsoft issues takedown notices over spilled COFEEMicrosoft has been issuing takedown notices for publicly hosting its leaked Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) tool. The company sent off "Demand for Immediate Take-Down: Notice of Infringing Activity" to companies hosting websites that offered the tool. The e-mails all start with the following standard statement: "Microsoft has received information that the domain listed above, which appears to be on servers under your control, is offering unlicensed copies of, or is engaged in other unauthorized activities relating to copyrighted works published by Microsoft."Microsoft first revealed the tool back in April 2008, and in April 2009, the company announced that it will aid global law enforcement in fighting cybercrime by providing its COFEE tool free of charge to International Criminal Police Organization's (Interpol) Global Security Initiative (GSI), a project that addresses international security challenges, and the participating 187 countries. Microsoft managed to keep the lid tightly sealed until earlier this month, when pirates decided it was time to leak the tool to the Web and let more than just government crime-fighters use it. View: Original Article (ars technica) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob1234 Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 interesting. anyone use this on themselves and find out how scary it is? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalaffa Posted November 26, 2009 Author Share Posted November 26, 2009 What has been said is that the tool is not so special really. It does not have anything out of the ordinary included. Since not a publicly available program the request for it at a private tracker site built up an insanely large bounty at 1.6 TB! So when the request was finally filled the admins there decided to remove it - "This was a decision made by the staff based on our own conversations and feelings about the security impact of having the software here." Bounty was granted though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karachidude Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 too late for microsoft then :tooth: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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