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(ISC)² offers the CCFP webcast series to help individuals become Certified Cyber Forensics Professionals (CCFP). This free webcast series includes a detailed overview of each domain, the value of certification, and how to study for the exam. The CCFP domains

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Should university courses include open-source or commercial software, or a mixture of both? Add your thoughts on the forum. Forum members discuss whether it is possible to recover

The UK government has launched a dedicated cybercrime unit given the task of tackling serious crime rings and the sexual abuse of children online. The Dark Web is a tiny area of the Deep Web – a hidden area of

U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against three men accused of running a sprawling computer hacking and fraud scheme that included a huge attack against JPMorgan Chase & Co and generated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profit.

by Anil Kumar The hard disk of a VM is implemented as the files, which live on their native file systems of the host machine. MS Virtual PC & MS Virtual Server support the below mentioned types of virtual hard

Julia, you're Chief Developer at ReclaiMe. Could you tell our readers a bit about your role, and what an average day looks like? Actually, ReclaiMe is not that big a company and the chief developer position is not limited to

CCFP is the first certification available within the cyber forensics discipline that reflects internationally accepted practices while accommodating the specific knowledge required by forensics professionals at a regional level. The CCFP exam is developed for regional markets following a series

by Nor Zarina Binti Zainal Abidin Forensic analysis of mobile phones’ third party applications is a new area that needs to be explored. There are a lot of third party applications available in App store. Mobile forensic software tools basically

Mobile forensics is a moving target. In our recent article, “The Future of Mobile Forensics”, we described acquisition techniques that used to be state-of-the art back then. Weeks later, some things had changed already. Three months after the publication a

Heather, please tell us about your role as a Senior Instructor at SANS as well as a Forensic Scientist – what does your day-to-day routine look like? As a Senior Instructor for SANS, I travel around the world to teach

Highly controversial plans to allow the police and security services full access to everyone’s internet browsing history have been abandoned by ministers in what is being presented as a dramatic climbdown over online surveillance. Amid fears in government that it