Forensic Focus

Computer crime investigations are facing a major upheaval as the shift towards a new type of hard drive technology allows criminals to cover their tracks and outsmart digital forensic specialists, Australian researchers have found. The new drives found in many

by David Benford, Blackstage Forensics "I recently wrote a research paper, “Geotag Data: The Modification of Evidence on the Apple iPhone”, based around the possibility of modifying geotag evidence on the Apple iPhone. A test was performed as part of

by Sean McLinden "Recently, the events surrounding the defacement of the HBGary Web site and publication of sensitive data were being bantered about on a number of forensic, security and incident response sites. As is typical for these kind of

by Joe Garcia "In this episode, I talk with Eric Huber about what awaits Digital Forensics & InfoSec practitioners getting ready to retire from Law Enforcement. Also, Lee Whitfield has announced that nominations are open for the 2011 Forensic4Cast awards.

An illegal immigrant who confessed on his Facebook page that he had raped a woman has been jailed for four years. John Ssewagudde attacked the 28-year-old at her flat in the Shettleston area of Glasgow last June. The Ugandan-born 21-year-old

Cyber crime costs the UK economy £27bn a year, the government has said. The figures, published for the first time, are a mid-range estimate and the real cost could be much higher. They are made up of £21bn of costs

In order to make sure that the results from the forth-coming elections are secured, valid and credible, especially with the use of the Direct Data Capture Machines, an IT expert has advocated the roles of computer forensics in protecting electronic

When you have a technical interest in Windows or PCs in general, there are few things as fascinating as a good computer forensics package. This is partly because they’re an excellent way to check exactly how someone is using a

Data drives everything in today’s business world, and it would be hard to name a more important concern for today’s corporate arena than data preservation. The growing urgency of this matter, until last year a novelty to most attorneys, touched

"Many people are familiar with the concept and importance of validating and verifying (V&V) results (and the difference between the two), but it would be fantastic if this could be engineered into the software (perhaps through some form of fundamentals

by Ken Pryor"Working for a small police department in a rural area, my opportunities to do digital forensic work on real cases are much fewer and farther between than those who work in large departments or in the private sector.

by Rob Adams "Mobile devices have become an essential component of our daily lives. These devices keep us connected and act as so much more than the cell phones and portable music players of the 1990's. It is common today

"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