Forensic Focus

The Fort Smith (Arkansas) Police Department’s Internet crime fighters received a substantial grant from a local cable provider last week. Cox Communications awarded the Police Department’s Cyber Investigation Unit a $9,000 grant as part of a continuing community partnership between

Google engineers have adapted a software program to help track child sex predators and search for patterns in images of abuse on the web. Google has created the technology for the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). It

Perhaps the hardest thing for Jim Bates to hear at his sentencing for making false written witness statements in criminal proceedings was the Judge, Simon Hammond, saying: “I’m quite sure his career as an expert witness is now finished.” Bates

Electronic crime is maturing, according to security experts, and with its evolution, criminals are adopting conventional approaches like supermarket-style pricing and outsourcing to specialists who might act as portfolio managers or computer technicians. “It’s a remarkable development of a whole

The closest thing the world of computer forensics has to the Ten Commandments is the guidance set down in the Association of Chief Police Officers’ Good Practice Guide for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence. These guidelines, built around four main principles, are

The founding father of the UK’s computer forensic industry was today sentenced at Leicester Crown Court for making false witness statements and committing perjury. Jim Bates, 67, was found guilty on the 6 March of four counts of making a

Insider information leakage constitutes an important part of employee frauds in the country, according to a consulting expert. “Insider information leakage which is mainly done through mail forms an important part of employee frauds in the country”, said Babu Jayendran,

They strike fear into the most dreaded criminals, but against one kind, the Delhi Police have been helpless so far — cyber criminals. ACP Economic Offenses Wing, P K Misra says, “Two or three years ago, there were very few

Seagate is best known for manufacturing hard disk drives and other storage devices for use in computers, servers, mobile devices, media players, and more—in fact, the company just announced a new self-encrypting drive for enterprise environments and a 1 TB

The HotPlug device basically allows a running computer to be seized and brought back to a computer forensic lab for further study — without having to first shut it off. Assuming a suspect could be caught by surprise when using

Tableau, LLC today announces the launch of the T35es eSATA Forensic Bridge. The T35es product is the first of its kind to offer forensic examiners the option of eSATA host computer connectivity. The T35es eSATA Forensic Bridge natively supports write-blocked

The Government of Singapore has devoted significant effort to combating computer crime. It passed legislation in 1993 and periodically amends this legislation as needed. It has created new agencies and given its law enforcement personnel greater powers in its fight

Paraben Corporation a digital forensic technology provider announced today that it has released Device Seizure 2.0 with Apple iPhone support. Device Seizure is the first forensic tool to support the Apple iPhone in forensic acquisitions. Investigators and Law Enforcement have

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