Forensic Focus

Mobile forensics has changed the methodology when it comes to offender profiling. The frequent use of mobile devices has provided investigators with another source for profiling criminal suspects, as well as an insight into their habits and personalities. This is

One researcher digs into Windows, discovers a flaw (and a fix), and receives $100,000 from Microsoft. Another, threatened with prosecution for alleged hacking, becomes despondent and takes his own life. At the Black Hat 2014 conference, an all-star panel discussed

Oxygen Forensics announces the release of Oxygen Forensic® Passware® Analyst, a new mobile forensic tool integrating Oxygen’s award-winning acquisition and analytic tools with Passware’s password recovery and data extraction. The new tool integrates mobile acquisition, data extraction, password recovery and

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. A forum member unearths a very old hard drive; how can it be analysed? Is it possible to retrieve IP information by logging into a Hotmail account? Forum

Emlyn, you’re currently Course Leader in Computer Forensics, Security & Ethical Hacking at Leeds Metropolitan University. Could you tell us more about the role and how you entered academia? As course leader it is my responsibility to maintain a healthy

Developers of software used to access Tor – an otherwise hard-to-reach part of the internet – have disclosed that an attack on the network may have unmasked users for five months. The Tor Project said that it believed the assault

Arnim, please tell us about your role as a lecturer in digital forensics, and how you first became interested in the field. I’ve been fascinated with ‘tinkering’ with computers from a young age: figuring out why things (don’t) work, reverse-engineering,

The phenomenon of cyber bullying has received a significant amount of attention in the last decade and literature in this field has grown exponentially with advice and guidance on how to deal with cyber bullying. Yet the term cyber bullying

In this article we’ll describe the complete workflow for image and video forensics. In fact, just like computer forensics in not only dumb copying and looking at files, forensic video analysis is broad and complex and there are many steps

The recent rise in the number of people who suspect they may be being tracked on the internet, whether by government agencies, advertisers or nefarious groups, has led to increased interest in anonymising services such as TOR. TOR, or The

In recent years, cloud computing has made the leap from an emerging technology to government mainstay, allowing agencies an IT avenue to share services, save money and increase efficiency. However, cloud computing still presents some major technical challenges in government,