Forensic Focus

If you’re a U.S. security professional and you think foreign attackers are the biggest threat to your organization, you’ve got another think coming, according to two new studies. According to separate research reports published yesterday, the United States is the

SS8 Networks, Inc., a provider of intercept solutions for telecommunication service providers and law enforcement agencies, is partnering with Fox-IT to offer FoxReplay Analyst, an Internet analysis system, to law enforcement agencies internationally. The company said that SS8 and Fox-IT

Early last Thursday, police in Market Harborough and Rugby arrested two forensics experts, Jim Bates and Chris Magee, on charges of “conspiracy to possess indecent images of children”. Jim Bates has frequently given testimony in computer forensic and CP cases,

The world of computer forensics used to be largely confined to the computer hard drive, but as more and more business professionals carry sensitive data around with ease on smart phones, BlackBerrys and iPhones, the challenge is to sort through

One of the UK’s largest independent IT forensic companies has announced a move to new larger premises at Royal House, So vereign Street, Leeds. The past year has seen a concerted period of growth for Leeds-based Data Genetics International Ltd

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is taking the lead in establishing an information network for e-crime prosecutors around the world. The CPS, responsible for prosecuting cases brought by law enforcement agencies, claims to be one of the first such authorities

An interview with Gene Spafford, Executive Director of CERIAS, is now online here. Many thanks to spaf for his thought provoking responses!

If you’ve got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could eventually recover, according to a renowned iPhone hacker who exposed the security flaw

A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous. The U.S. National Security Agency

An interview with Paul Wright, Detective Sergeant in charge of the Hi-Tech Crime Team within the City of London Police, is now online here. Many thanks to Paul for his time and detailed responses.

Not long ago, the legal department at a financial services company in New York got a phone call from a hospital in London. The query: Why are you hacking us? With two known IP addresses, it wasn’t difficult for the

Here are the tales of three trailblazers whose work in computer security and forensics have helped shape modern practices. These security pioneers include Martha Stansell-Gamm, a former U.S. Air Force judge advocate who started an arduous fight against breast cancer

Shawn Henry has been named Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division. Director Robert S. Mueller, III appointed him to this position to replace former AD James Finch, who was recently named Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Oklahoma

Criminals can remotely destroy incriminating evidence by exploiting security features on devices such as the Apple iPhone, a leading digital forensics expert has warned. The head of the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office digital forensics unit, Keith Foggon, cautioned that the

Deep in the bowels of San Francisco’s Hall of Justice, Sgt. Wayne Hom plugs in a USB key to activate a new high-tech tool that has become the delight of cops, the bane of bad guys and a cloud over

A police officer arrives at the scene of a murder, plugs a thumbdrive into a computer that is still running, and executes some 150 evidence-gathering commands within 15 minutes. A scene from CSI? Not necessarily. The Hong Kong Police Force’s