The time may come when you need to examine a hard drive either because you need to recover some lost data or because you suspect an employee of a violation. Whether you intend to use your findings in court, for employee discipline, or just for your own information, using a good forensics tool and recognized forensics techniques will help you both recover your data and preserve its value as evidence. A tool I recommend is WinHex...

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The last 12 months have seen a dramatic growth in almost every security threat that plague Windows PCs. The count of known viruses broke the 100,000 barrier and the number of new viruses grew by more than 50%. Similarly phishing attempts, in which conmen try to trick people into handing over confidential data, are recording growth rates of more than 30% and attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Also on the increase are the number of networks of remotely controlled computers, called bot nets, used by malicious hackers and conmen to carry out many different cyber crimes.

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Kansas City, Mo. — First, they testified that a suspect in a Douglas County murder searched the Internet for terms including "How to murder someone and not get caught." Then they used computer records to find the Kansas woman suspected of strangling a pregnant Missouri woman and cutting her fetus from her womb.

It's been a busy month for the computer sleuths at the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory, a second-floor suite tucked into an upscale office building just north of the Missouri River. Instead of searching for fingerprints and footprints, the detectives who work at this office solve crimes by searching seized hard drives for file activity and Internet history.

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New Hampshire is stepping up its fight against computer criminals. Speaking at a conference on white-collar crime, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said her office is considering a proposal to create a "master computer brain" to help investigate computer crime. The machine would help investigators decode information on computers seized as evidence.

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REGISTER TODAY for This Timely Conference
4th Annual DoD Cyber Crime Conference & Exposition
Cyber Crime -- Overcoming the Challenges of New Technology
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Conference Dates: January 10-14, 2005

Pre-Conference Training: ILook 8 Training Course and other CEU courses, January 9-10, 2005

Exposition Dates: January 10-11, 2005

Location: Westin Innisbrook Golf Resort, Palm Harbor, FL, (Clearwater/Tampa Area)

For Details and to Register Visit: http://www.DODCyberCrime.com/

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