I-Team: Inside An FBI Probe

The email came in the dead of winter and was chilling indeed. A man calling himself Abdul Yohanish said he was about to bomb the major local bridges connecting Ohio to Kentucky, the local international airport, and Paul Brown Stadium,

OU student puts knowledge into practice

An award-winning Open University student got the chance to put his newly-acquired knowledge into practice when he spent a day working with one of the country’s leading forensic computing companies. Dave Lancaster shadowed laboratory manager and senior forensic analyst Richard

Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB) Now Accepting Candidates

The Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB), an independent certifications organization for digital evidence examiners, has officially launched its highly anticipated certification program that offers two levels of professional designations. As part of the Board’s certification launch, candidates may apply through

Free iPhone Forensics White Paper Released by Chicago Electronic Discovery

Chicago Electronic Discovery released a free white paper on iPhone Forensics at chicago-ediscovery.com that reveals the vast amount of personal information stored on Apple’s iPhone and reviews techniques and software for retrieving this information. Consumers and corporations have a legitimate

e-fense Announces Opening of New Headquarters

e-fense, Inc. today announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters to 9200 E. Panorama Cir, Suite 120 in Centennial, Colorado. The move follows the company’s announcements of new management and continued growth of its computer forensic and network security software

Data Theft Common By Departing Employees

Many people who are either laid-off from their job or simply moving to another opportunity often secretly take proprietary data from their employer on their way out the door, a study released this week found. Nearly 60 percent of employees

UK’s poor record on prosecuting hackers revealed

Experts have called for more police resources to fight computer crime, after it emerged that only 299 hackers have been charged under the UK’s computer crime law over the past four years. Computer Weekly has discovered that only 110 cases

Guidance Software Expands EnCase® Training OnDemand Offering

Guidance Software Inc. has announced new EnCase® Training OnDemand courses in eDiscovery and computer forensics, broadening its range of course offerings that allow EnCase customers worldwide to train anywhere, at their own convenience. The two new on demand offerings are:

U.S. Government Honors Precision Discovery Computer Forensics Expert for Service

Bruce W. Pixley, Vice President of Computer Forensics at Precision Discovery was recently recognized by U.S. government officials for providing outstanding computer forensics services. Most recently, Pixley was recognized at the U.S. Attorney’s Office Ninth Annual Law Enforcement Awards Ceremony

Guidance Software Sees Record Q4

Pasadena-based Guidance Software joins the list of Southern California firms who had a good quarter, saying Tuesday that it had revenues of $25.2M in its fiscal fourth quarter, growth of over 22 percent versus its similar quarter in 2007… More

Deloitte announces new data centre for forensics and eDiscovery

Deloitte Australia has announced plans to invest in a significant new data centre at its Grosvener Square Sydney office in 2009 to assist with the work undertaken by its new Forensic Data and Analytic Insights divisions. Nicholas Adamo, Deloitte partner

AccessData Selects Parabon’s Frontier Grid Platform to Power Extreme Decryption

Parabon Computation, a veteran provider of extreme-scale grid computing software and services, today announced an alliance with AccessData®, a provider of state-of-the-art computer forensic and decryption solutions. Under an OEM arrangement, AccessData has integrated Parabon’s industry-leading Frontier® Grid Platform into

Other computer forensics feeds

A page which displays recent posts from other computer forensics RSS feeds is now online here: www.forensicfocus.com/computer-forensics-feeds More info, suggestions etc. to this thread please, thanks! Jamie

FG approves computer forensics institute for Nigeria

Nigeria may soon save some hard currencies usually expended in acquiring foreign computer forensic experts each time they were needed, as the Federal Government last week approved the establishment of the Computer Forensics Institute, Nigeria (CFIN). CFIN is a professional

Visual Computer Forensic Analysis

Computer forensics is a slow process. Examiners typically embark on a tedious file review process to determine each file’s relevance to a particular case. This can quickly add hours and extra costs to computer forensics. However, recent research presented at