Forensic Focus

The claim by London’s Metropolitan Police that the interception of messages is only illegal when the message has not been listened to, read or collected by the recipient has been challenged by a privacy law expert. The Met’s Assistant Commissioner

A handyman who planted CP on his boss’s computer in a bid to get promoted has been jailed. Neil Weiner, 40, hatched the “wickedly evil and vile plot” to get caretaker Eddie Thompson sacked from Swanlea Secondary School in east

by Sam Raincock "Throughout the world, there has been a recent surge in students studying computer forensics. Some courses encourage placement years or work experience to allow students to expand on their academic knowledge and obtain some practical experience. Times

by Simon Biles "So what is "Information Security" anyway? The traditional model that is taught to all InfoSec newbies is based around the “CIA Triad” – this isn’t some weird American-Chinese governmental underground society – rather it is the “holy

"The Council of Europe (not to be confused with the European Union/Commission) has worked tirelessly for several years to get different countries to adopt its version of a computer crime law. More importantly, The Council of Europe has been doing

Bowing to the Obama administration, a federal appeals court Monday gutted its own decision that had dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. The 9-2 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nullifies Miranda-style guidelines

A burgeoning field of forensic study deals with iPhones specifically because of their popularity, the demographics of those who own them and what the phone’s technology records during its use. Law-enforcement experts said iPhone technology records a wealth of information

A new study by security vendor Symantec reports that Internet crime has grown into a widespread problem globally. It also provides intriguing insights into consumers’ lax attitudes toward online piracy, plagiarism, and other illegal or unethical activities. The study says

If Palin and her ghostwriter are in fact violating Facebook’s terms of use, that probably doesn’t seem like a big deal to most people. Just by surfing around the internet, we “agree” to dozens of website terms of use every

David Benford from Blackstage Forensics is raising money for the Cystinosis Foundation by running in the Amsterdam Mizuno half marathon on the 17th of October. David’s daughter suffers from Cystinosis, a very rare and serious condition which is as yet

Digital Forensics Magazine is offering a 20% discount for students worldwide for the online version of their magazine. Tony Campbell, one of the publishers of Digital Forensics Magazine said: “Students around the world are a massive market for us. Part

At first blush, message headers seem esoteric. Why should a lawyer care about the alphanumeric ID assigned to a message, the message’s offset from Greenwich Mean Time or the names of the servers it traversed before delivery? The answer lies

As computer forensics has become increasingly important to civil and criminal trials, certification for computer experts has been a growing business. Today there are a handful of nonprofit and for-profit organizations that offer computer forensic certification programs. However, no one

Forensic analysis of database systems is very specific and demanding task, and it was the main inspiration for writing this article. In this article you will find information about what digital forensic is and what kind of methods you can

So you’ve just completed your forensic examination and found that forensic gem or smoking gun in your case, so how do you proceed? Depending on where you fall as a forensicator (e.g., law enforcement, intelligence, criminal defense work, incident response,

In the fall of 2008, a variant of a three year-old, relatively-benign worm began winding its way through the U.S. military’s networks, spread by troops using thumb drives and other removable storage media…”Some guys wanted to reach out and touch