Forensic Focus

Stroz Friedberg, Inc. has opened its newest U.S. office at 101 Montgomery Street in downtown San Francisco. Leading the firm’s San Francisco operations is David E. Garrett, who joined Stroz Friedberg as a Managing Director… More (Metropolitan Corporate Counsel)

AccessData Inc. yesterday issued a legal alert addressing a recently published court ruling furthering the legal standing of its Forensic Toolkit® (FTK®) software. In this instance, the case addressed FTK’s native search engine used to identify, search and collect electronically

In a wide ranging discussion with media sources today, e-fense discussed its many marketing and sales initiatives designed to ensure a global reach of its incident response and e-discovery products and ease of purchase for customers…The risk of data loss

A breakthrough in computer forensics technology was announced today when investigators were told they would no longer be required to rely on text-based or simple point and click interfaces, but will instead be able to fully immerse themselves in a

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 Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers, accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and some papers may be selected for a journal…Suggested topics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)