Forensic Focus

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. The UK Forensic Science Regulator has issued a draft guidance document for digital forensics method validation. Forum member UnallocatedClusters gives a description for the data found in iNode

Ahead of his election day disaster, District Attorney Craig Watkins announced the creation of a new division in his office. He’s done this before, most recently with the Civil Rights Division, a team that will investigate, right alongside Internal Affairs,

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"The UK Forensic Science Regulator has issued the linked document for consultation. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/digital-forensics-method-validation-draft-guidance For UK practitioners, big or small, the implications are considerable. If you don't agree with what is proposed you need to respond by the end the month.

Oxygen Forensics, Inc. announces Oxygen Forensic® Passware® Analyst can extract iCloud backup data of any Apple device even with iOS 8 encryption upgrades. Oxygen Forensic® Passware® Analyst acquires full iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch backups from iCloud provided that the

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Is it legal to travel to China with full disk encryption on a laptop? Forum members discuss recovering deleted emails and OST/PST conversion. An OS HDD seems to

Governments are ill-prepared to combat the looming threat of “online murder” as cyber criminals exploit internet technology to target victims, the European policing agency warned. In its most alarming assessment of the physical danger posed by online crime, Europol said

Whitehat hackers have backed an ambitious White House petition, put together by a noted legal expert, calling for reform of both the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Their claim is that both

Nearly every case Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) opens has some sort of digital evidence to be collected and analyzed. But the work can’t be done by just anyone. The data must be meticulously cared for by agents trained to preserve

All the data on some of the tablets and phones seized as evidence is being wiped out, remotely, while they are in police custody, the BBC has learned. Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Durham police all told BBC News handsets had

We find ourselves analyzing new surveillance videos almost every day, and in most cases we can either solve the problem very quickly or understand (even quicker) that there is no information to recover in the video. In special cases though,

Oxygen Forensics has released a stand-alone Oxygen Forensic SQLite Viewer, enabling forensic experts to view and export information stored by system and third-party mobile applications. The tool enables access to deleted SQLite records, and lays out the content of SQLite

Stuart, please tell us more about your role as Director of Cybersecurity and Investigation Services at Nuix. My role covers three main areas: product development, support and training, and advisory to the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Unit (ITU). Having used