Forensic Focus

With the heightened focus on cybersecurity – and increased incidents of insider crimes – the digital forensics practice has also gained a higher profile in both the private and public sectors. Keith Barger, a forensics veteran, currently serves as a

Litigants harbor immense reservoirs of electronically stored information. Servers, like lakes and rivers, are evident and expansive. Databases and archives are vast subterranean aquifers. Information puddles in desktops, portable devices and online storage. It’s costly to preserve, tap and process,

More than two dozen wounded soldiers and sailors sat inside a classroom at the Naval Station in Norfolk, Va., and listened to a Mississippi State University computer science instructor tell them about a second career option. They all shared an

AccessData has announced the preview of Forensic Toolkit® 3.0 (FTK®) which will be demonstrated at HTCIA International on August 24th in Lake Tahoe, California. Below are just a few highlights of the FTK 3.0 release…Reengineered for Improved Performance: * UI

Tools such as Metasploit’s meterpreter for the automated delivery of stealthy payloads are making it more difficult for researchers to find out after the fact exactly what happened to an exploited computer… More (GCN)

More and more banks are developing their own computer forensic labs to identify both external and internal threats, says Jeff Maw, a computer crimes and forensic investigator at Wells Fargo. Wells’ lab, in Charlotte, has forensic software to access remotely

An interview with Sean McLinden of Outcome Technology Associates, Inc. is now online at http://www.forensicfocus.com/sean-mclinden-interview-210709 Sean is a Forensic Focus forum regular and posts under the username “seanmcl”.

According to e-fense, live acquisition of Internet history, computer memory, images, and other data is now easier to collect with the latest release of Live Response and Aperio from e-fense, Inc. These tools are used by law enforcement and businesses

An exclusive review of three popular forensic write blockers by David Kovar of NetCerto, Inc. is now available here. Included in the review are the Guidance FastBloc2 FE, the WiebeTech Forensic UltraDock V4 and the Tableau T35es. http://www.forensicfocus.com/write-blocker-review-230709

With the proper hardware that you probably already have and freeware available online, you can easily build your own basic computer forensics lab that will hold up in court, reduce E-Discovery costs and, most importantly, retrieve valuable evidence for all

A former military policeman and IT security expert at Northern Rock is combining his talents in a data investigations business. Andrew Maddison, who worked at Northern Rock for eight years as head of the technical security team, has launched Orbital

The ever-weakening job market could well lead to an increase in online crime as laid-off workers, especially those with computer skills, turn to scams to support themselves, Cisco Systems Inc said in a mid-year security report… More (Reuters)

Symantec’s workshop on cybercrime Friday brought together a panel of experts from the law enforcement side: Donna M. Peterson, unit chief of the FBI’s Cyber Division, Matthew A. Parella, Assistant U.S. Attorney Chief for the Northern California CHIP (Computer Hacking

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The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is setting up a modern Digital Forensics Training and Analysis Centre in Thiruvananthapuram for the State police. The facility will provide forensic expertise and training to police officers investigating cyber crimes. It will

According to Voom Technologies, Inc., Recent Supreme Court ruling places computer forensics under the scope of Court’s requirement for live testimony by forensic analysts. Although this controversial 5 to 4 decision was well-debated and resolved on constitutional grounds, the ramifications