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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 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, 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

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

Intelligent Computer Solutions (ICS) has today announced the release of the Image MASSter™ Solo-4 IT Portable, Stand-Alone Duplicator. Optimized for today’s high speed drives, the Solo-4 IT duplicates and sanitizes Hard Drives at speeds exceeding 7 GB/min and provides Native

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

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

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

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 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

"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

This is a rare opportunity for a recent graduate – no experience needed – to join a leading global organisation in London as a graduate trainee. For more information, please contact David Sullivan at [email protected]

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

AccessData has announced that it will be giving computer forensics investigators a sneak peek at its new “Mobile Phone Examiner Plus” (“MPE +”) touch screen field tablet. AccessData partner, Mobile Forensics, Inc (MFI), will be showcasing the product at the

An interview with Sam Raincock of SRC is now online at http://www.forensicfocus.com/sam-raincock-interview-300510. Many thanks to Sam for her time and her thoughtful responses, the interview is sure to be of interest to both those currently working in the field and

I’m delighted to announce that computer forensics recruitment specialist David Sullivan has agreed to become a regular columnist here at Forensic Focus. David has asked for any questions related to his first piece, “Avoiding common job application errors”, to be