Forensic Focus

When a detective with the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office collects a computer, cell phone, digital camera, thumb drive, or any other technological device that potentially holds evidence pertaining to a case, they take it to one person — Detective Cpl.

by Sean McLinden "In a recent intellectual property case for which we were retained, among the electronically stored information (ESI) that the plaintiff sought for production were internal company blogs and wikis used by the defendant’s developers to discuss new

by Dominik Weber"Scalability is simply the ability of our forensic tools and processes to perform on larger data sets. We have all witnessed the power of Moore's law. Hard drives are getting bigger and bigger. A 2 TB SATA hard

by Si Biles"Calling something a “Holy Grail” is an interesting term – the intended meaning is well known to most of us – i.e. something miraculous that will solve all of your problems. However given that it’s supposedly a cup,

Guidance Software announced Wednesday that it’s created the first-ever approach to conducting computer forensics on live industrial control and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. The company said that the benefit of its new program would be to help

Paraben Corporation has announced the release of the first consumer tool for recovering deleted data from iPhones. The iRecovery Stick recovers user data, both active and deleted, such as deleted text (SMS) messages, deleted contacts, and deleted calendar items, from

The SANS Institute has offered the winner of Digital Forensics Magazine’s Issue 4 competition one free pass to either the 2010 Digital Forensics Response Summit in the UK (London, Sept 8-9) or next year’s US Digital Forensics and Incident Response

A manager of a company dealing in mobile phones has been jailed for 54 months and ordered to pay a penalty of nearly S$17.1 million in Singapore’s biggest GST fraud case so far. IRAS said computer forensic techniques were used

Dell has been accused of withholding evidence, including e-mails among its top executives, in a lawsuit over faulty computers it sold to businesses, according to a filing made Thursday. Advanced Internet Technologies filed a motion in Federal District Court in

"I work for a small police department in Georgia, and being the only one in my division able to competently use a computer I got sent to the Mississippi State University Introduction to Digital Forensics one week course. Now my

One of the alleged ringleaders behind the 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay has been extradited to the U.S., where he was arraigned Friday in the Northern District of Georgia on charges that he helped coordinate the global $9.5 million bank

"I am currently finalising the details for the Introduction to Connection Records course and wondered what do you want to know? Training is not about the trainer. It’s about your learning! Currently the course will contain lectures and practical exercises

by Simon Biles "Authentication and Authorisation are fundamental to information security – identifying who a user is (authentication), and what they are allowed (authorised) to do allow us to restrict access to data in such a way that only the

UK students – Win a free* place on the “Investigating Connection Records and Introduction to Cell Site Analysis” Training Course in Birmingham (UK), 23rd – 24th August 2010 provided by Sam Raincock Consultancy. To enter you MUST be a current

The second edition of the new monthly podcast Digital Detectives was released on July 26, 2010 on Legal Talk Network. The podcast, entitled “Current Issues in Computer Forensics,” takes a look at how vital knowledge of e-Discovery is in today’s

by Chris Hargreaves "During the last two weeks I have spent a disproportionate amount of time staring at a command prompt. This has been for a couple of reasons, which will be mentioned later in this article. What was interesting