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Advice for Digital Forensics Job Seekers

by Joe Alonzo [email protected] You see the job advertisements posted on the web everyday, Digital Forensics Analyst, Internet Investigator, Computer Forensic Associate.  You hit the Apply Now button, often never hearing back from said company. Your background may consist of

Forensic Toolkit v3 Tips and Tricks – Re-indexing a case

This is the first in a series of articles that will cover topics concerning AccessData Forensic Toolkit (FTK) version 3. So you’ve created a case in FTK 3.X / Oracle and added 20 forensic images of seized computers and assorted

What is “good enough” information security?

by Simon Biles I have, occasionally in the past, mentored people in (on?) Information Security – once for money (this is not a revenue stream that I’ve mastered by any stretch of the imagination!), but more often than not, informally

Google History Forensics

by Craig Ball In my last Forensic Focus column, I touched on migration to handhelds and the cloud, mushrooming drive capacities and encryption-by-default as just some of the factors auguring the eventual extinction of conventional digital forensics. But an end

Time and Forensics

by Simon Biles Time fascinates me, it has an amazing history and it has some great “toys”. One of my favourite quotes of all time is from Groucho Marx: “Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.” I

Dropbox Forensics

by Frank McClain A write-up about some forensic aspects of online storage/file-synching service Dropbox™ Cloud-based services are becoming more prevalent, and not just for businesses – end- and home-users are taking advantage of opportunities to automate backups, make files available

Standard Units in Digital Forensics

by Dr Chris Hargreaves Lecturer at the Centre for Forensic Computing at Cranfield University in Shrivenham, UK. One of the earliest lectures in the MIT Openware programme in Physics begins with the lecture “Units and Dimensional Analysis”. Units of measurement

PitchLake – a tar pit for scanners

by Simon Biles Founder of Thinking Security Ltd., an Information Security and Risk Management consultancy firm based near Oxford in the UK. We’ve had two bank holidays in a row here in the UK – first off for Easter, then

How to Create an Open Source Network Forensics Appliance

By Ondrej Krehel Chief information security officer at Identity Theft 911 [email protected] IntroductionEncryption and anti-forensics attacker techniques are commonly encountered in incident response investigations, while the power of network forensics intelligence is often overlooked by busy IT and legal departments.

The Grid for Crime Prevention (G4CP) in Wales

by Sian Haynes and Stilianos Vidalis University of Wales, Newport Fujitsu is set to bring high-performance computing (HPC) to Wales. They will provide a distributed grid which is a project set over five-years costing up to £40 million. The grid