EnCase(R) Forensic Wins 2010 SC Magazine Reader Trust Award

EnCase(R) Forensic has been recognized with SC Magazine’s 2010 Reader Trust Award in the category of Best Computer Forensics Solution. The announcement was made at the SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco…EnCase

Spanish police arrest masterminds of ‘massive’ botnet

Spanish police have revealed that they have arrested three men responsible for one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers. All are Spanish citizens with no criminal records and limited hacking skills. It is estimated that the so-called Mariposa

Computer forensics education directory updated

Our University and College Course Directory has been updated with the following institutions: American InterContinental University (US)Arapahoe Community College (US)Marshall University (US)Lawrence Technological University (US)Harper College (US)California Sciences Institute (US)Lenoir Community College (US)Regis University (US)Boston University (US)University of Rhode Island

Organiser of Darkmarket fraud website jailed

A man who created a website trading in stolen financial information linked to tens of millions of pounds in losses has been jailed for nearly five years. Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, founded Darkmarket, a “Facebook for fraudsters” where criminals could buy

Throwing the book at digital crooks

Pop quiz: Name a crime that doesn’t relate to computers. Go ahead. Still thinking? Here’s a hint: you probably can’t. “No matter the crime, we can come up with some angle that will show, yeah, there’s a potential that’s a

F-Response 3.09.06 released

The largest and most noticeable change to this new release is the ability to use F-Response Enterprise to directly deploy to remote potential F-Response targets via the GUI completely independent of platform. It is now just as easy to deploy

UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010 Published

An analysis of actual data compromise cases has been released by Computer Security and Forensics consulting firm 7Safe and the University of Bedfordshire. Anonymised data has been analysed from over 60 computer forensic investigations undertaken by 7Safe in what makes

Police on the hunt for perfect PC crime breathalyser

UK police are continuing to develop a tool to detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs that could be as easy for officers to use as a breathalyser. Specialist e-crime policing organisations have been examining commercially available digital forensic devices

Police survey provides glimpse of Net-surveillance figures

A forthcoming survey of computer crime investigators suggests that electronic surveillance is a bit more commonplace than most people might expect. Even a relatively small group of 100 police working on online investigations reports submitting as many as 22,800 legal

Digital Forensics Magazine Publishes 2nd Edition

Digital Forensics Magazine has launched its second issue…Highlights in this issue include an in-depth look at Google’s mobile operating system, Android, a guide on how to build your very own volatile memory forensics toolkit, and a detailed product review of

Report Details Hacks Targeting Google, Others

It’s been three weeks since Google announced that a sophisticated and coordinated hack attack dubbed Operation Aurora recently targeted it and numerous other U.S. companies…Now a leading computer forensic firm is providing the closest look so far at the nature

Time to Review Corporate Computer Policies

Three recent court decisions make it important for companies to begin the new year with a thorough review of their computer-use policies with a focus on two issues: ensuring that employees have no expectation of privacy in using the company