Forensic Focus

"At a recent corporate client meeting held to determine whether an in-house legal e-discovery tool would be a good fit, the first item on the agenda was the cost. Before getting started, however, we had to stop the meeting so

A list of sample images and forensic challenges is now available at: http://www.forensicfocus.com/images-and-challenges Additions are encouraged and may either be sent through the feedback form or added to this forum topic. Thank you to those who helped compile the current

A mobile phone application which claims to identify adults posing as children is to be released. The team behind Child Defence says the app can analyse language to generate an age profile, identifying potential paedophiles. Isis Forensics developed the tool

ATC-NY has just released two free, new forensics tools: Mac Memory Reader and eMule Reader. Mac Memory Reader is a simple command-line utility to capture the contents of physical RAM on a suspect Macintosh computer, letting an investigator gather volatile

An Ohio lawyer who serves as an expert witness in CP cases might be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil damages for Photoshopping courtroom exhibits of children having sex. Attorney Dean Boland purchased innocent pictures

As an actor, Paul Laverack is used to dealing with fictional crime: he once had a role in a couple of episodes of Stingers, an Australian TV cop show. “I actually played a criminal who was trying to buy a

Guidance Software, Inc. today announced a new forensic tool for the Apple iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod touch, giving digital investigators the ability to perform forensic analysis and e-discovery on the tablet that one in five Americans plan to buy

by Sam Raincock "In general, all modern mobile telephones contain call information and SMS message storage which may be used as evidence. There may also be a wealth of other evidence available including browser history, sat nav usage etc. However,

As DARPA puts it: “When we look through the evidence after the fact, we often find a trail–sometimes even an ‘obvious’ one. The question is can we pick up the trail before the fact giving us time to intervene and

A forensic pathologist is a medical doctor first, who then specializes in pathology, with forensics being a subspecialty. Similarly, a forensic accountant has a broad education in general accounting principles before focusing on the legal field. Ideally, then, a computer

A well-known security researcher and cybercrime foe appears to have gone missing in Bulgaria and is feared harmed, according to a news organization that hosts a blog the researcher co-writes. Bulgarian researcher Dancho Danchev, who writes for ZDNet’s Zero Day

Think again before texting about that drug deal you just made, because police will be able to read all about it if you get arrested. And they won’t need a warrant. The California Supreme Court ruled in San Francisco Monday

Detectives have begun a Facebook campaign in a bid to catch the killer of Jo Yeates. Her body was found on Christmas Day, in Longwood Lane, Failand, eight days after she was reported missing from her home in Clifton, Bristol.

Mobile calls and texts made on any GSM network can be eavesdropped upon using four cheap phones and open source software, say security researchers. Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut demonstrated their eavesdropping toolkit at the Chaos Computer Club Congress (CCC)

A Michigan man has been charged under anti-hacking legislation designed to protect trade secrets after logging on to his wife’s email account and discovering she was having an affair. Leon Walker, 33, faces a trial lawyers say could have significant

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you’re all having a good time and enjoying a well deserved rest! Best wishes, Jamie