Forensic Focus

Italian police have broken up a pedophile network spanning at least 28 countries that used social media websites to swap pornographic images and videos of child abuse. Ten people have been arrested in Italy, the United States, France and Portugal,

"As one of several in my office we've tried to give Encase 7 a fair shout. But after 6 months or more we have lost all faith in it as a usable product – reduced functionality from V6, ludicrous processing

Information for anyone that might be interested in the full-time version of the MSc in Forensic Computing at Cranfield University – you can now register for an Open Day on the 27th March 2012 to find out more about the

The YAFFS2 file system is widely used in Android devices, but to date has not been supported by the leading open source forensic toolkit, The Sleuth Kit, commonly known as TSK. viaForensics has undertaken development to integrate YAFFS2 file system

Barely three weeks after I penned Another Judge Rules Encryption Passphrase not Testimonial Under Fifth Amendment Analysis, the Eleventh Circuit has held that a defendant’s “decryption and production of the hard drives’ contents would trigger Fifth Amendment protection because it

McCann E-Investigations (McCann EI), a Texas-based computer forensics firm has released a white paper titled The Unchecked Power of the Senior Most IT Professional. This paper explores the complex issue of terminating the most senior IT professional, such as a

Paralan (http://www.paralan.com) is now the official USA and off-shore distributor for Voom’s computer forensics solutions that are used by law enforcement to collect, analyze and present digital data. Paralan handles the sales, marketing and shipping responsibilities while Voom handles technical

I-Analysis, an Asian company that specializes in digital forensics, discovery services (http://www.i-analysis.com.sg) and information management today announces the opening of its Taiwan office. Headquartered in Singapore with a presence in Malaysia, I-Analysis expands to Taiwan to meet client needs in

Guidance Software Inc. has announced a new version of its EnCase eDiscovery software with the ability to collect electronically stored information (ESI) from more cloud-based data services and a new collected data re-use feature for searching evidence collected for previous

The good news is companies are becoming increasingly familiar with predictive coding, but the more unsettling news is they are facing up to $20 million in annual e-discovery expenses. According to the third annual study of streamlining and reducing the

I previously discussed, on a bar association section blog in 2007 and 2009, the case of In re Boucher, where a U.S. judge for the District of Vermont ruled that requiring a criminal defendant to produce an unencrypted version of

Yuri is the founder of Belkasoft, an independent software vendor specializing in computer forensics and system software for the Windows and Mac OS platforms. Yuri, can you tell us something about your background and who you are? I have a