Forensic Focus

Talk Forensics (www.blogtalkradio.com/TalkForensics), hosted by Larry Daniel of Guardian Digital Forensics, has announced that Harlan Carvey will be the guest on the show for the May 10th episode at 4pm Eastern.

Austin Troxell’s review of MacLockPick II can be read here with follow up discussion here.

A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law enforcement agencies to scour the inbuilt hard disk of such devices and

Greg Kelley’s review of the Paraben Forensic Innovation Conference (PFIC) 2008 can be read here with follow up discussion here.

Federal prosecutors call Jimmy Weg of Helena “The Legend.” A federal court judge calls him “Professor Weg.” And now, Montana Department of Justice Criminal Investigator Jimmy Weg can add “award winning computer forensic examiner” to his title. A surprised Weg

When detectives are called out to crime scenes, they are doing much more than studying fingerprints and talking to witnesses. More and more, their investigations are taking them to computer labs where incriminating evidence is often found on every day

An interview with UK-based computer forensics investigator Jan Collie is now online at http://www.forensicfocus.com/jan-collie-interview-240409

Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics. The home secretary scrapped plans for a database but wants details to be held and organised for security

Why do people who know better than to traipse through crime scenes blithely muck about with digital smoking guns? With computers, it seems we must trip over the corpus delecti and grab the knife before we realize we’re standing in

Until recently, crime scene investigations typically involved searching for minute specs of blood, or threads of fabric linking a suspect to a victim. Or, detectives would wade through mountains of paperwork, trying to link evidence in bank statements, letters and

The 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report by the Verizon Business RISK team has been released and is available as a PDF file here.

Pressure from businesses to set up a national e-crime unit to police hackers and virus writers was vindicated last week when the newly formed Police Central e-crime unit, arrested nine people following an investigation into criminal gang using Trojans to

Digital forensics was a key factor in tracking down a man law enforcement officials say targeted women who advertised massage and other personal services on Craigslist…Investigators say digital forensics work was key to tracking down the suspect, according to Jake

Criminals are willing to pay thousands of euros for a discontinued Nokia mobile phone with a software problem that can be exploited to hack into online bank accounts, according to a fraud investigator in the Netherlands. About 10 days ago,

City of London police are to trial the use of specialist squads to tackle data theft and other crimes against business. Three pilot units of specialist officers will begin work next month, tackling problems ranging from data theft to terrorism…

CP charges in New York are contained in Penal Law Article 263. Today, these charges usually arise in the context of computer images and videos, which brings many twists into the investigation, charging and prosecution of CP cases… More (Legal