MANDIANT, provider of incident response and computer forensics solutions and services, unveiled version 2.0 of Web Historian, its web extraction freeware tool for the Incident Response community. Web Historian helps users review a list of websites (URLs) stored in history files of the most commonly used Internet browsers. The announcement was made at the 22nd Annual Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) Conference at the Intercontinental Miami Hotel.

The second generation of Web Historian is a complete re-write and overhaul of previous Web Historian versions, boasting 17 new features, including: custom filtering of one or more data sets, and two new tools, Website Analyzer and Website Profiler. Web Historian 2.0 supports a variety of leading browsers, including: Firefox 2/3+, Chrome 3+, and Internet Explorer v. 5-8.

“MANDIANT is proud to continue its long-standing commitment to developing free software for the Incident Response community,” said MANDIANT Director of Research and Development Jamie Butler. “Web Historian 2.0, led and developed by Senior Software Engineer Aaron LeMasters, empowers incident responders to investigate, sort, analyze, and manage historical data extraction faster and more effectively than ever before.”

Web Historian 2.0 feature upgrades include:

Custom Filters to narrow the scope of the investigation. In addition to letting users create their own filters, Web Historian ships with pre-defined filters for quick navigation through large web history data sets.

Website Analyzer enables users to visualize web history data (rather than scrolling through pages of records) and generate useful bar graphs, pie charts, and timeline plots that can be used in an external report.

Website Profiler to generate quick report card-style summaries of any domain in web history data, showing all artifacts created on the system.

For more information, visit www.mandiant.com, or read the company blog, M-Unition.