Forensic Focus

A new U.K. police force dedicated to tracking down cybercriminals is gearing up to make the most of what one senior police official acknowledges is limited funding. The Police Central e-crime Unit, due to begin operations soon, came to be

“A significant piece of our work in the last few years has been on cyberforensics. Helping build forensic methods and tools that help law enforcement use do better job of investigating. That means not just crimes against computers, but also

The presence on the internet of those with malicious intentions has been the subject of Hollywood blockbusters, so it is fair to assume that most business leaders are aware of the threat. But perhaps less well understood is how the

A computer expert giving evidence on what time he thinks the Bain family computer was turned on on the morning of June 20, 1994, has told the David Bain murder retrial that his findings involved a lot of “guesswork”. Police

The International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime is now accepting papers. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers, accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and some papers may be selected for a journal…Suggested topics

Wave University, an educational platform for legal professionals that offers free webinars, a “lunch and learn” series and software training webinars, announces its second webinar in a series that will focus on discovery issues. “Blackberry Forensics – Recovering & Processing

Forced to shut down in January by the state’s budget impasse, the area’s high-tech crime-fighting unit will resume operations April 1, a spokesman said Tuesday. But the Northern California Computer Crimes Task Force is being reconfigured with constraints that likely

Guardian Digital Forensics is a privately held corporation headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Principals announced today that the company is ready to launch a series of products into the network forensics, content management and e-discovery retention and production markets…Larry Daniel, one

A controversial BBC Click documentary which involved researchers obtaining access to a botnet and sending spam is due to screen this weekend despite a growing storm of criticism. Security experts – including McAfee, a firm whose representatives appear in the

Security vendor McAfee will give grants to a European and a U.S. organization to better train law enforcement and legal officials to deal with cybercrime. McAfee will give US$55,000 to the Council of Europe, an organization created in 1949 and

Countries are ratifying the only global cybercrime treaty slower than expected, but many are closer to implementing it, a senior Council of Europe official said Wednesday. The Convention on Cybercrime, adopted in 2001, defines legal guidelines for countries seeking to

(Abstract) CLOIDIFIN is a research project that will highlight the vulnerabilities of the cloud and the impact it will have on the digital forensic investigation that could ensue following a crime, policy contravention or data compromise episode… More (ZDnet.co.uk)

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the independent body that investigates complex fraud cases, is recruiting for a chief information officer (CIO). “We are now seeking a talented individual to lead, develop and implement the overall IT strategy for our business/office

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has appointed a new Chief Criminal Counsel, David Kirk. Keith Foggon has also been appointed to bolster the FSA’s enforcement division, as manager of its Digital Evidence Unit. Mr Foggon was formerly head of the

France and Ireland are hoping the European Commission will back a plan to create an academically accredited cybercrime training program for law enforcement. The proposal calls for initially creating two training centers that would focus on defining topics for masters

Following their graduation from a US Department of State workshop, five members of the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda (RPFAB) are now equipped to conduct digital forensic investigations. Eric Freeman, assistant regional security officer at the US Embassy