Forensic Focus

Accused of letting impressionable students see pornographic pictures as she browsed the web in her classroom, former Connecticut school teacher Julie Amero dodged felony charges last Friday by agreeing to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and surrendering her

These days, virtually every major criminal activity leaves evidence — images, text messages, call records and more — on mobile devices. Yet for the investigator who knows only the basics or less about how to recover this evidence, building a

I recently had a look at the most recent CSI security survey. While a lot of things have changed over the past year, one thing is definitely consistent: attacks happen. At one point, attacks on companies were as high as

Businesses are not confident that the police have the necessary resources or technical knowledge to deal with e-crime effectively, a survey has found…”In our experience, few electronic crimes are taken seriously by the police,” said one respondent to the survey.

Looking at how AI techniques can boost digital forensics, the UK government-funded Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) will examine the potential use of AI in web counter-terrorism surveillance, fighting internet fraud, masking identities online and data mining. The KTN

Search Index Examiner lists all the documents, emails, and spreadsheets, as well as providing creation and modification dates, author, recipients, summary content, and other information for each item. The only data it needs from the target computer is a Windows

Technology that claims to pick up traces of illicit images on PCs has attracted the interest of Australian cops. The software, developed in an Australian University, might eventually be used to screen PCs during border inspections. Compared to breath test

The man denied any wrongdoing, but Lakeland police had something on him – his cell phone. Since the department founded its intelligence unit in 2001, cell phones, computers, MP3 players, and many other forms of digital technology have taken on

Forensics experts tend to work alone or in small groups and have few ways of sharing the most important lessons they are learning. SANS is trying to fill that gap in part because SANS trained many of the most effective

AccessData Corporation has announced that on October 6th it sent a letter to Guidance Software expressing its interest in acquiring all of the company’s outstanding stock. On Friday October 31st, AccessData reports that it received a reply from Guidance Software

Computer related crimes have risen by almost 10 percent in the UK last year alone, according to online identity firm, Garlick. The report claims that over 3.5 million online crimes were committed in the UK in 2007 – most of

An alpha version of libpff for forensic investigators using open source forensic tools has been released. Libpff is a library with tools to read, extract and recover deleted e-mails. The file format on the personal folder format can be found

Rey Anzaldúa’s new book, Computer Forensics for Dummies, hit the shelves in October 2008 and is helping consumers sleuth their own digital trails. “People underestimate the amount of digital information they leave behind on digital devices and throughout the Internet

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