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New home for Leeds IT forensic team

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

E-crime fighters share know-how

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

IPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do

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

U.N. agency eyes curbs on Internet anonymity

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

Interview with Paul Wright, City of London Police

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.

No such thing as a digital investigation

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

The Security Sentinels

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 Named Assistant Director of FBI Cyber Division

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

UK crime fighters grapple with iPhone wipe threat

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

Police probe cell phones to thwart criminals

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

Hong Kong police gets Cofee boost

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

Indian forensic lab braces up to tackle cyber crimes

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

Gallery: Tools for CSI cybercrime

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

Computer Issues When Key Personnel Defect

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 hex viewer

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,