Forensic Focus

For in-house attorneys, the costs of discovery rise when Electronically Stored Information (ESI) is uncontrolled. The objective of the litigation readiness process is to make sure that the IT professionals and the legal professionals, who certainly speak different languages, understand

A Department of Industrial Accidents investigator has been cleared of CP possession charges after a forensic investigation revealed that malware was to blame for depraved smut on his company laptop. Michael Fiola, 53, of Rhode Island, went through a massive

U.S. House of Representatives members who worry that China may have been responsible for attacks on their computers have provided little evidence to back up their claims, according to computer security experts…”It’s so very hard to conclude that something came

North Wales Police have launched a crime fighting business to step up their fight against computer and mobile phone crime. Police and BIC Innovation have joined forces to launch DATRIS – Data Recovery & Investigation Service – a private enterprise

Forensics tools are often confused with other classifications of tools, such as incident management, e-discovery and data recovery. But while they can be used for those purposes, the difference is that they abide by formal evidence processing protocols such as

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is training its first 15 postgraduates in computer forensics as part of an effort to establish a “centre of excellence” to combat, investigate and prosecute computer crime. UCT is from this year offering an

“They are now allowing EVIDENCE outside of the forensic lab. Not in the sense of copying data, but viewing the data, which due to caching is essentially the same as copying. This is not what I would consider acceptable in

Dr. Marc Rogers, Director of Cyber Forensics at Purdue University, is leading a three-day crash course for law enforcement officers from around the state of Indiana this week. He hopes this will be the first of many such training sessions

Guidance Software Inc. has announced a strategic alliance with HBGary Inc., a leading provider of security assessment solutions and services. Through this relationship, Guidance Software adds HBGary‘s unique live memory (RAM and volatile data) analysis solutions to its portfolio of

Last Thursday, May 15, the International Police Agency (Interpol) released their long-awaited report on the laptops and computer materials the Colombian Army said it captured after the March 1 bombing and raid on a guerrilla camp in Ecuador. As expected,

Cyber crime – internet banking and credit card fraud – is now the fastest growing sector of global organised crime, increasing at a rate of about 40% per year. With Brazil thought to have by far the largest number of

INTERPOL today presented the results of its forensic examination of eight seized FARC computer and hardware exhibits following a request for assistance in March of this year by Colombia, one of INTERPOL’s 186 member countries. INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K.

Paraben Corporation, a digital forensic technology provider, announced today that it has released the new Cell Seizure Investigator Stick (CSI Stick). The CSI Stick is a thumb drive size device that forensically acquires data from cell phones. This portable solution

Network-based tools covered some interesting territory. There are two classes of solutions that seem to be lumped into the network forensics category. The first incorporates all those offerings that do much of what traditional computer forensics tools do, only they

Reverse engineering is regarded as one of the most difficult specialties in the hacker community. The deconstruction and analysis of software and systems to understand their inner workings is a complex task. It requires a thorough understanding of kernel functions,

The FBI announced recently that the state of New Mexico, in conjunction with the UNM Police Department, UNM Information Technology Services Department (ITS) and the NSA-certified UNM Anderson School of Management’s Center for Information Assurance Research and Education (CIARE), has