Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

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

UK Government Tackles Dark Web With New Cybercrime Unit

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

US Charges Three In Cyberfraud Targeting JPMorgan And Others

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.

Virtual Hard Disk Image Format – A Forensic Overview

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

Virtual Hard Disk Image Format – A Forensic Overview

by Anil Kumar Types of Virtual Hard Disk Image Format 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

Interview With Julia Pakhomova, Chief Developer, ReclaiMe

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

Julia Pakhomova, Chief Developer, ReclaiMe

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

(ISC)2 Offers Global Digital Forensics Credential With Regional Adaptation

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

Forensic Analysis Of Third Party Applications: Instagram

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

Forensic Analysis Of Third Party Applications: Instagram

by Nor Zarina Binti Zainal Abidin Abstract 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

The Future of Mobile Forensics: November 2015 Follow-Up

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

The Future of Mobile Forensics: November 2015 Follow-Up

by Oleg Afonin, Danil Nikolaev, Yuri Gubanov 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

Interview With Heather Mahalik, Senior Instructor, SANS

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

Heather Mahalik, Senior Instructor, SANS

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

Theresa May Backtracks Over Plan to ‘Snoop’ on Internet Use

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