Computer Forensics – sometimes it’s all about timing

by Sam Raincock "When a crime happens, the time of the events may be critical to the legal case. However, how are these times established? Is it the time alleged by the witness? When the CCTV system captured the image?

Police arrest London teenagers in cyber crime swoop

The Metropolitan Police has arrested two London youths for their alleged roles in an international cyber crime forum. The teenagers were picked up yesterday on suspicion of encouraging or assisting crime, unauthorised access under the Computer Misuse Act and conspiracy

Stroz Friedberg Promotes Seth Berman and Erin Nealy Cox

Stroz Friedberg has announced the promotions of Seth P. Berman and Erin Nealy Cox to the position of Executive Managing Director and their appointment to the firm’s Executive Management Group, which sets strategy and policy for the firm…”Our Executive Management

Forensic Focus 2010 survey

The Forensic Focus 2010 survey is now online at http://feedbackfarm.com/surveyengine/s.php?i=477 The survey should take no more than 2 or 3 minutes to complete and does not require any personal or contact information. This year the survey has been expanded to

ElcomSoft Update Recovers Encrypted Backups to iPhone and iPod Touch Devices

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. has updated Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker, a GPU-accelerated password recovery tool to unlock encrypted iPhone and iPod Touch backups, with iOS 4 Software support. The support of the latest iOS enables ElcomSoft’s forensic customers to access information

Digital Assembly, NYU-Poly Help Speed Forensic Digital Photo Recovery for Gov/LE

Digital Assembly, a leading photo forensics software company with roots at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), will collaborate with the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) to improve DC3’s internally developed forensics carving tools. Digital Assembly

Australian ediscovery industry grows up

OK, so you’ve heard about the term ediscovery, and possibly know of Australia’s federal court ruling last year that meant all matters above a certain size must be dealt with 100% digitally. It’s all very well to dip into the

Unusual devices

by Sean McLinden "In 2007, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine made the news twice for a single event. The first time was the report of a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in which he was seriously injured. The

Flash drives and acquisition

by Dominik Weber “Take a look at this”. It started simply with that. A co-worker was looking into some strange issue with an acquisition of a flash drive. It seemed that the acquisition hash changed every time the drive was

Publication: an ethical dilemma for DF research?

by Chris Hargreaves "Ethical issues in science are commonplace; examples such as cloning, climate change and genetic engineering are all subject to different ethical debates. Some subjects have clearly defined areas of potential ethical problems, for example in Psychology much

Cybercrime on the increase in the Netherlands

The number of instances of serious cyber crime in the Netherlands has reached 170 so far this year, compared with 150 cases in 2009 as a whole, internet security watchdog Govcert says in Tuesday’s Financieele Dagblad. Organised cyber crime is

Software could have covered CP accused doctor’s tracks

Software used on a doctor’s computer could have been used to cover his tracks if he was downloading CP, a court has heard. Douglas Harris, 29, deleted 16,000 files by using a window washer programme on his home computer in

Podcast: Review Of SANS FOR408 Course

"In this episode, I discuss a few news items and I review the SANS Forensic 408 course that I recently attended at SANS SecWest in San Diego. Also, I talk about the upcoming SANS Forensic & Incident Response Summit being

Met lab claims ‘biggest breakthrough since Watergate’

Police scientists have hailed a new technique that recently played a pivotal role in securing a murder conviction as the most significant development in audio forensics since Watergate. The capability, called “electrical network frequency analysis” (ENF), is now attracting interest