Forensic Focus

With the rising trend of cyber crimes in Assam, the State Forensic Science Laboratory (SFL) is equipping itself with state-of-the-art equipment to help the law enforcing agencies from across the Northeast to crack down on cyber criminals. The FSL will

The digital forensics unit (DFU) of the Australia Serious Fraud Office sniffs out incriminating evidence from crime scenes with ZDNet Australia on hand collecting clues. Armed with laptops and suitcases containing specialist forensic tools the 21-strong team can swiftly capture

My firm provides digital forensics and e-discovery services. Most of our digital forensics investigations and analyses involve employees who have left their former employers for a rival or to start their own business. Our investigations focus on a constellation of

RevEnge is a fully featured hex viewer designed with Reverse Engineering in mind (hence the name). It comes with features not seen in other Hex viewers such as its ability to perform on the fly decompression of ZLib compressed data,

In the last few days, I’ve entered a whole new web world. It’s a place where people speak of getting “dumps… sniffed from ATMs” or using “blinds to cash out” or getting data through “rj 45 taps.” The language belongs

By now, we all know how the Recording Industry Association of America nabs alleged file sharers, more than 20,000 lawsuits and counting: Hired snoops from MediaSentry – aka SafeNet – log onto Kazaa, Limewire or other file sharing programs, peer

Acquiring disks is a very important part of digital forensics. In my past blogs I discussed some aspects of forensics with respect to VMware ESX servers. This is the last part of the series. To acquire a VM from a

John Simek, a computer forensic examiner in Fairfax, Va., recently had a woman come to his office after a divorce proceeding. In court, her husband had presented some mean-spirited e-mails she supposedly sent him from a free Hotmail e-mail account,

A new LinkedIn group for Forensic Focus members and the wider computer forensics community has been launched. The group’s homepage can be accessed at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/693917 If you would like to expand your professional network please consider joining!

As always, the 2008 Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas was full of cutting-edge computer security research, the latest in computer security vulnerabilities, and more than a little controversy. Since the beginning of the Black Hat conference 15 years

Computer forensics firm CY4OR, which helps police to crack criminal cases, has opened a mobile phone laboratory at its Bury headquarters as it looks to expand. The company, founded by Joel Tobias in 2002, has seen turnover double to £1.3m

ManTech International Corporation announced the release of ManTech Memory DD(TM) 1.3, a physical memory acquisition tool for imaging Windows based computers. ManTech Memory DD captures a record of physical or random access memory which is lost when a computer is

He goes by the nickname A-Z and is one of Russia’s bright young tech stars. He’s a crack programmer, successful entrepreneur and creator of sophisticated software tools that help his customers make millions. Trouble is, A-Z’s masterstroke is a computer

THE US government has thrown its weight behind the training of South African state officials in computer forensics in a bid to build SA’s capacity to fight intellectual property (IP) and counterfeit crimes. The training, which took place last month

Speakers at a seminar on “What is Computer Forensic?” stressed the need for launching a campaign to create awareness among the people about cyber crimes besides introducing new degree courses on computer forensic at college and university level to make

AccessData has announced the addition of network forensics capabilities to its product portfolio. “For the last year, we have aggressively evaluated countless network forensic solutions but only one had the power and flexibility needed to meet the challenges of our