Forensic Focus

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

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