Forensic Focus

When criminals turn to disk encryption to hide the evidence of their crimes, law enforcement investigations can hit a brick wall. Where digital forensics software has failed to recover encryption passwords, one tried and true technique remains: violence. It is

The days of performing only traditional “dead” forensics on a host after a security incident are over. A shift to “live” forensics and incident response investigations is underway, with a round of new tools focused specifically on collecting volatile data

Some months ago we reported on the use of iPods as an educational tool, and provided information on schools and universities that have incorporated this technology for the benefit of their students. Our report today involves a more complex use

When headlines read, “Bear Sterns prosecutor builds case on e-mail,” how to keep or destroy electronically stored data may sound like a new business challenge. It doesn’t need to be, according to Derek Witte, who formerly practiced at Miller Johnson

The Home Office is consulting on the possibility of applying serious crime prevention orders (AKA corporate ASBOs) to computer hacking laws. Serious crime prevention orders allow the courts to apply “injunctions” against criminal behaviour granted on the basis of the

Get on the website of a budget airline to book yourself a holiday and, while you are at it, fool around with the site code so that you can pick your own price. For tomorrow, show your workings. That is

This major release of TSK contains many new library and tool features. * Orphan files (deleted files that have a metadata structure, but do not have a parent directory that can be reached from the root directory) are now shown

Computer spying and theft of personal information have risen notably in the past year, costing tens of millions of dollars and threatening U.S. security, the FBI’s cyber division head said on Wednesday. FBI Assistant Director Shawn Henry told reporters that

Updates to the ageing Computer Misuse Act (CMA) finally come into force in England and Wales on Wednesday (1 October). Modifications to the CMA – which was enacted in 1990 before the advent of the interweb – were included in

The iPhone has quickly become a marketing leader in mobile technology, finding its way into the corporate world and the everyday lives of millions of end users. Its wide range of functionality, combined with its “always on” design, make it

The first presentation was from Scott Moulton, who covered the issue of states enacting laws that require private investigator licenses for anyone doing computer forensics (and sometimes simple computer support and file recovery, depending on the law’s wording). The second

A national cyber-security strategy that will seek to protect key infrastructure as well as Canadians’ identities is on the way , an RCMP executive says. Details of the strategy — a partnership between the public and private sectors — will

Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie of the Metropolitan Police Service — one of the architects of the Police Central e-Crime Unit announced on Tuesday — has proposed recruiting individuals from industry to assist the unit with investigations. Speaking at an event

The Arlington County (Virginia) Police Department Computer Forensic Unit (CFU) was established approximately 12 years ago and serves as a support unit. It has played a critical role in solving diverse crimes. The unit is involved in the collection and

The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded two grants totaling $149,977 to Wetstone Technologies Inc. in Ithaca under the National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Program to enable the company to acquire evidence from computer systems more quickly and reduce

E-mail messages, Excel spreadsheets and customer databases are featuring increasingly in cases of fraud, defamation and information theft, which gives wrongdoers more reason than ever to tamper with these electronic pieces of evidence. How well they do it could make