Forensic Focus

Google History Forensics

by Craig Ball "In my last Forensic Focus column, I touched on migration to handhelds and the cloud, mushrooming drive capacities and encryption-by-default as just some of the factors auguring the eventual extinction of conventional digital forensics. But an end

Brazilian Digital Forensics Lab Fights Faked Evidence

The question whether a photo showing you pulling off a mask after robbing a bank is real or fake may decide if you go to jail or not. For his research on digital video and image forensics, Anderson de Rezende

Careers in Digital Forensics

Getting into digital forensics today requires a jack-of-all-trades to be able to work with emerging technology, such as the cloud, says Rob Lee of SANS Institute. “The more that you could focus in on computer science topics, to understand programming,

Met police quadruples size of cybercrime unit

The Metropolitan police has quadrupled its cybercrime unit to 85 officers in just two months as the investigation into so-called “hacktivist” groups, LulzSec and Anonymous, gathers pace. Scotland Yard issued a fresh warning to computer hackers following the high-profile arrests

Important Changes to “Articles & Papers” Section

From today, the section where we display user submitted articles and research papers is changing significantly. Users will now be able to upload, edit and publish their own articles. The URL for the new section is http://articles.forensicfocus.com/ If you would

UK police forces come together to create new regional surveillance units

Britain’s police forces are forming regional surveillance units with the power to carry out covert and intrusive investigations. Detectives believe the groups will make it easier for the authorities to bug computers, break into properties and interfere with wireless internet

Cyber Security Challenge competitions begin this week

Cyber security professionals will compete over the next few days to prove their capabilities in the QinetiQ Network Defence competition, as the Cyber Security Challenge gets into full swing. The virtual stage of the QinetiQ Network Defence competition and the

Bahamas police receive digital forensics equipment from US Dept of State

The US Embassy’s acting deputy chief of Mission Bradley Lynn and regional security officer Derrick Boyd presented a Mac Book Pro computer forensics laptop package valued at more than $14,000 to the Royal Bahamas Police Force’s Central Detective Unit. The

Studying the web’s impact on sex offenders

Law enforcement agencies and psychologists are debating the relationship between the availability of the material online and those who are interested in it. Dr Ethel Quayle, a lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Edinburgh said that studies have

Dropbox Forensics

by Frank McClain A write-up about some forensic aspects of online storage/file-synching service Dropbox™ Cloud-based services are becoming more prevalent, and not just for businesses – end- and home-users are taking advantage of opportunities to automate backups, make files available

Standard Units in Digital Forensics

by Dr Chris Hargreaves Lecturer at the Centre for Forensic Computing at Cranfield University in Shrivenham, UK. One of the earliest lectures in the MIT Openware programme in Physics begins with the lecture “Units and Dimensional Analysis”. Units of measurement

PitchLake – a tar pit for scanners

by Simon Biles Founder of Thinking Security Ltd., an Information Security and Risk Management consultancy firm based near Oxford in the UK. We’ve had two bank holidays in a row here in the UK – first off for Easter, then

How to Create an Open Source Network Forensics Appliance

By Ondrej Krehel Chief information security officer at Identity Theft 911 [email protected] IntroductionEncryption and anti-forensics attacker techniques are commonly encountered in incident response investigations, while the power of network forensics intelligence is often overlooked by busy IT and legal departments.