Forensic Focus

One of the first things I remember reading on TechRepublic was an article with 200 tips and tricks for recovering data from failing hard disks. One of the most outlandish ideas contained in that mountain of advice was the suggestion

Don Lukasic is a computer forensic examiner. He works for the Ada County Sheriff’s Office as well as the FBI. There are fewer than ten of these experts in the area and he’s one of them. “One case personally that

Computer crime is not only exploding in volume but is mutating faster than it can be contained, a new report to be published next week will warn. Some 2.5 million new types of malicious programme have been launched in the

AccessData has announced the release of AccessData® (AD) eDiscovery, designed to be the most effective, automated, in-house eDiscovery solution available. It is the only solution to address all data equally, enabling organizations to identify, preserve and process data from desktops,

It’s not the Emmy Award-winning “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” but computer forensics holds a growing lure for law firms and human resource directors investigating workplace disputes. Driving some of the growth are new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil

Plans to create a national police unit to fight high-tech crime were delt a blow this week after the Home Office said it was unable to find £1.3m to fund the unit. Home Office minister Vernon Coakertold the Association of

In this article, we will focus on a hardware approach for encrypting your data at rest. Specifically, we are going to look at the new breed of encrypting hard drives. We will discuss the features and benefits of this next

Gary Kessler, 52, is an associate professor of computer science at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt. Mr. Kessler has worked as a computer-forensics consultant on the side for the past five years. Computer forensics is the process of gathering evidence

Photo-editing software gets more sophisticated all the time, allowing users to alter pictures in ways both fun and fraudulent. Last month, for example, a photo of Tibetan antelope roaming alongside a high-speed train was revealed to be a fake, according

Kansas City quickly is becoming a hub of computer forensics activity as accounting firms realize that taking a computer system apart can be just as profitable as putting one together. Computer forensics involves analyzing information available on computer hard drives

LuciData Inc., a leading provider of internal threat management, e-discovery and computer forensic investigative services and solutions, today announced that it has successfully cracked a laptop encrypted with Pointsec Full Disk Encryption on behalf of a corporate client. While encryption

Howard Schmidt today is the CEO of R&H Security Consulting. However, he’s better known around the world for working in the White House for 31 years. A former White House security adviser, he was appointed by President Bush as Special

Talks to discuss funding a national e-crime unit will open next week, but the Metropolitan Police Force is set to lose its second head of its e-crime unit in six months. Detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie will meet Home Office

A new centralised police unit tasked with tackling IT crime is set to get the official go-ahead, according to a leading computer crime officer. Speaking at the SecureLondon conference, hosted by security certification firm ISC2 last week, detective sergeant Clive

Australian university students have developed a Linux-based data forensics tool to help police churn through a growing backlog of computer-related criminal investigations. The tool was developed by students from Edith Cowan University’s School of Computing and Information Sciences and will

Nato is treating the threat of cyber warfare as seriously as the risk of a missile strike, according to a senior official. A London conference was told that online espionage and internet-based terrorism now represent some of the gravest threats