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The Tangled Web Mail We Weave and Leave |
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 It is an understatement to observe that the focus, if not the obsession, of e-discovery production today is the production of e-mail. In the prototypical e-discovery matter a company has an e-mail server and workstations (desktop or laptop computers) and company e-mail, i.e. the kind with the e-mail address, "employee@company.com," will be found on both. Web-based e-mail, however, provides a second generic source of e-mail. Anyone with an AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Comcast or other common e-mail account -- virtually everyone -- is familiar with Web-based e-mail. This article explores the problems with requesting, preserving and producing Web-based e-mail...
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Cold Boot Attack Utilities Released At HOPE Conference |
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 Jacob Appelbaum, one of the security researchers who worked on the cold boot attacks to recover encryption keys from memory even after reboot, has announced the release of the complete source code for the utilities at The Last HOPE in New York City. The hope (obligatory pun) is that the release of these tools will help to improve awareness of this attack vector and enable the development of countermeasures and mitigation techniques in both software and hardware. The full research paper (PDF) is also available...
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Law troubles computer repairmen, sparks lawsuit |
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Texas legislators may have unintentionally ensnared some computer repairmen in a web of rules and regulations designed for private detectives. The law, passed last year, criminalizes the investigation of certain computer problems without a private investigator's license. Private investigators support the stringent licensing requirements, saying the rules protect the public's privacy and ensure professional investigations...
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TrueCrypt not as deniable as thought |
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It may not be possible after all to conceal the existence of a sensitive file on a machine. BT security expert Bruce Schneier and a group of researchers have hacked an ultra-paranoid feature in the TrueCrypt open-source disk encryption tool that lets users hide secret files from detection by attackers or others. This "deniability" feature is a sort of extreme file-protection function that first encrypts the file and then hides it within an encrypted area on the disk drive like an invisibility cloak...
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And the paper...http://www.schneier.com/paper-truecrypt-dfs.pdf |
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Romainian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects |
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Authorities have arrested more than 20 people in Romania who are suspected of running online fraud schemes, according to media reports. The Tuesday arrests were confirmed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has been working with Romanian officials on cybercrime in recent months. The FBI would say only that the agency is aware of the arrests and because "this is an ongoing matter, we will have no further comment at this time..."
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Houston FBI opens big new digital crime lab |
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Trying to keep pace with criminals who increasingly store damaging evidence on high-tech devices, the FBI today opened a digital forensics laboratory four times the size of a facility it used to plow through the files of energy giant Enron. "This is the shape of law enforcement for the future," said Andrew R. Bland III, special agent in charge of the Houston FBI office. "Any police department in our area can submit evidence to this lab." The expanded laboratory — equipped to store, copy and examine huge amounts of digital data — will serve more than 700 police agencies in a 40,000-square-mile area of southeast Texas...
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How Lying Eyes was caught in cyber trap |
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Though it has a low profile, the Gardai’s computer forensic unit - which is based in the force’s national bureau of fraud investigation (GBFI) - is rapidly developing a reputation for excellence across European police forces. In part, this is due to the partnership between UCD’s School of Computer Science and Informatics and the GBFI, which has led to the college establishing a masters degree in forensic computing and cybercrime investigation. The first graduates of the course, from police forces in Italy, Austria, Norway and Britain, as well as two Interpol investigators, passed out last December...
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Computer Crime Law in Thailand could be amended |
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The Computer Association of Thailand may propose an amendment of the Computer Crime Law, saying the first year of enforcement was causing many problems for users. Association president Srisak Jamornmarn said a seminar on computer crime would be held on July 23-24 to gather thoughts on the effects of the law. He said participants would discuss real-life problems, particularly from the use of computers for illegal activities at internet cafes and schools...
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Computer forensics - a booming business |
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The primary concern of forensics experts is to collect evidence that meets well-established criteria laid down by the law. "The rules of evidence are not new for computers," says Sean Lin, a director, Information Security Audit & Control Association (ISACA). "If digital photos are stolen, for example, we may need to prove which computer they were stored on and who copied and distributed them. In the old days, we needed to track down the people who processed and printed a roll of film. In both cases, the collection and protection of evidence must be legally acceptable. The standard of proof is the same, just the technology has changed..."
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Even computer 'wipers' leave a mark |
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When British software developers came up with a program that could wipe files from computer hard drives, they gave it a hard-core name: Evidence Eliminator. It gets the point across, but can sure sound bad if a user gets hauled into court and is accused of illegally destroying documents. That's what happened in the high-stakes trial, now in federal court in Riverside, over who owns the rights to the hugely successful Bratz line of dolls...
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Computer forensics (or forensic computing) is the use of specialized techniques for recovery, authentication, and analysis of electronic data with a view to presenting evidence in a court of law.
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