Forensic Focus

Data Recovery Handling Tips & ESD Precaution

First published April 2005 by ActionFront Data Recovery Labs www.ActionFront.com Data Recovery Handling Tips & ESD Precaution Mishandling is a leading cause of hard disk drive failure. ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) A familiar form of Electrostatic Discharge, often called “static electricity”,

Beware Do-it-Yourself Data Recovery Solutions and Products

First published April 2005 by ActionFront Data Recovery Labs www.ActionFront.com Do-It-Yourself data recovery software may complicate your problems and diminish the prospects of a successful recovery. The object of many fix/doctor/repair programs is to try to make the drive, file-system

Is There a Need for Industry Control?

First published April 2005 by Nick Furneaux CSITech www.csitech.co.uk For many years if someone asked what I did for a living I would have to use an all-purpose description such as I worked in computer security or even worse I

Computer Forensics – A Business Tool

First published March 2005 by Andy Fox Director Audax Digital Forensics www.audaxuk.com March 2005 Computer forensics has become an increasingly important part of IT security. A 2003 survey carried out on 201 companies by the National High Tech Crime Unit

Electronic Evidence as the Smoking Gun

First published February 2005 by Henry J. Fasthoff, IV NOTE: THIS IS ARTICLE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE CONSTRUED AS LEGAL ADVICE. Electronic communications–particularly email–may contain a treasure trove of evidence in commercial litigation

Hard Drive Crash? The Essential Data Recovery Report

First published January 2005 by Greg Duffield Your worst nightmare just became a horrifying reality. You keep hearing that little voice in your head mockingly shout “you should have backed that stuff up” The voice keeps echoing throughout your head

Using the Forensic Server Project

First published November 2004 The following is an extract from Chapter 8 of “Windows Forensics & Incident Recovery” by Harlan Carvey. Collecting data from a potentially compromised system is relatively simple. There are several methodologies for collecting data that an

Data Forensics – The smoking gun may be a click away

First published September 2004 By PAUL G. LEWIS Lewis is the founding partner of PG Lewis & Associates of Whitehouse Station, a data forensics firm. http://www.pglewis.com Enquiries to Rob Kleeger, [email protected] This article is reprinted with permission from the SEPTEMBER

Computer forensics software, an introduction

First published September 2004 by Jamie Morris, Forensic Focus In common with many other professions, the field of computer forensic investigation makes use of tools to allow practitioners to carry out their tasks effectively and efficiently. This article describes some

Free Dropbox Forensics Tool

Dropbox Reader is a set of Python scripts for forensic investigators. The scripts provide investigators with information about a particular Dropbox user’s account and activities, such as the registration e-mail, Dropbox identifier and most recently changed files. Dropbox Reader was

Computer forensics growing part of Fed cybersecurity strategy

Computer forensic investigations aren’t just fodder for popular crime scene television shows. As federal computing environments expand and become more complex, and the numbers of attacks on government systems soar, it is increasingly critical for agency managers to understand how

Firm’s delight at its deal with Dell over evidence software

A piece of software developed by a small Milton Keynes IT company has been taken up by one of the biggest computer companies in the world. Evidence Talks, based in Crownhill, has developed forensic intelligence software called SPEKTOR which can

UAE students create e-learning site for forensics

Three students at the College of Information Technology of Zayed University (ZU) last week launched a project that aims to act as digital forensics e-learning platform. The project is called ‘Jenaei’, an Arabic word that translates into English as ‘forensics’,