Forensic Focus

A national competition has been launched to find the next generation of UK cyber security specialists. The Cyber Security Challenge will put entrants through a series of online and face-to-face competitions to assess their abilities. The prizes on offer include

A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday ruled that it’s not a criminal act to violate the Terms of Service of a Web site, a decision hailed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The case, Facebook v. Power Ventures, arose because

Lt. Jeff Weible and his staff are fond of secrecy. Their job requires intense secrecy and special skills, mostly with computers, sometimes with acting, always with the pursuit of sex criminals in mind. His most experienced detective, Jennifer Wright, is

A reminder that there is a 10% discount available until 24th July for the two day Connection Records/Intro to Cell Site Analysis course in the UK run by Sam Raincock. Further details available here.

The UK-based digital forensics company, Forensic Telecommunications Services (FTS) has been awarded accreditation to ISO 17025:2005 and, in a UK first, the laboratory has been assessed and granted accreditation for its specialist techniques used in physically recovering deleted data from

Prosecutors in a New Jersey ticket scalping case are pushing the envelope on the federal computer hacking law, setting a precedent that could make it a felony to violate a website’s terms of service and fool a CAPTCHA, according to

"On June 28, 2010, the Federal Trade Commission unveiled a law suit againt unknown credit card fraudsters, seizing the assets of 16 companies run by at least fourteen "money mules". Each of these companies was run by a money mule

A year ago in April, the government says, the accused operative known as Richard Murphy and his supposed wife, “Cynthia Murphy,” booted up a computer in their comfy suburban Montclair, N.J., home. They visited a publicly available Web site and

Researchers at UK computer forensics firm Disklabs have helped develop technology that will drastically speed up the forensic analysis of ‘Volume Shadow Copies’ (VSC) of suspect Windows computers. The introduction of VSC technology in Windows 2003 created a huge headache

This month sees the launch of the Forensic Focus Preferred Training program which aims to highlight the very best digital forensics training available. The first course offered is "Mobile Forensics: Investigating Connection Records" delivered in the UK by Sam Raincock

by Joachim Metz "While some may curse Windows Vista for all its changes, for us forensic investigators it also introduced new interesting 'features'. One is the integration of Windows (Desktop) Search into the operating system. Most corporations have been reluctant

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?

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 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

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