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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 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:

e-fense announced its new corporate network security solution; Helix3 Enterprise. This easy to use business product can actively monitor and respond to incidents anywhere on a network. “This is a powerful well developed product that will become a necessity in

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Irish IT security company Espion has achieved ISO 27001 certification for its Dublin-based dedicated Computer Forensic laboratory. International standard ISO 27001 is an information security management system (ISMS) that demonstrates compliance to a detailed set of specific security controls and

Sri Lanka’s computer crime fighting has failed with more than three quarters of cases ending without convictions or not being investigated, despite new laws being devised, Chief Justice Sarath Silva said. In 2007, there had been 17 cyber crimes but

The crime lab that serves the Pacific Northwest has earned national accreditation for handling computer and electronic evidence. FBI officials joined representatives of regional law enforcement agencies on Wednesday to honor the Northwest Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory in Portland for

A Welsh university has teamed up with an American company to offer a world first in computer courses. The University of Glamorgan is working with AccessData to offer the first courses in the world to be accredited by the computer

The Forensic Focus 2009 survey will be closing in just a few hours. If you haven’t yet had a chance to submit your thoughts please do so as soon as possible! The survey, which should take no more than 2

When the world’s largest disk-makers joined last week to announce a single standard for encrypting disk drives, the move raised questions among users about how to deal with full-disk encryption once it’s native on all laptop or desktop computers. For