Forensic Focus

With all of the recent hype about solid-state drives in both consumer applications and enterprise environments I have a real concern about data recovery on these devices. I know there are services for flash memory restoration but has anyone been

The Open University in the UK has launched a postgraduate course designed to offer a basic understanding of digital evidence collection, forensic computing and IT incident management in criminal investigations. Computer Forensics and Investigations balances the legal and technical aspects

Robert M. Hanson could be your best friend, or your worst enemy. It depends on which side of the law you’re on. As a computer forensics expert and licensed private investigator, he’s hired to search data storage devices, usually hard

Electronic crime is to have its own business unit within the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) for the first time. At the last estimate, e-crime was costing the UK economy £2.5bn a year, and until now it has been

Intercepting internet telephone calls and tracing the original sources of photographs are among the new challenges for those working in digital forensics. The University of Adelaide today begins hosting its three-day “e-Forensics 2008” international conference, focusing on issues related to

The federal government is asking a U.S. District Court in Vermont to order a man to type a password that would unlock files on his computer, despite his claim that doing so would constitute self-incrimination. The case, believed to be

Backbone Security has announced the newest version of their industry leading steganography application detection tool, Steganography Analyzer Artifact Scanner (StegAlyzerAS) at the DoD Cyber Crime Conference 2008. Online threat forecasts for 2008 include increasing use of obfuscation techniques such as

For some companies, it is not a question of if one of their computers will be used as evidence in a legal matter, it is a question of when. The inaugural Computer Forensics Show will fill the Washington Convention Center

WiebeTech, a premier developer of computer storage and forensic solutions, has been purchased by CRU-DataPort of Vancouver, Washington, a global leader in data security and data mobility products…”We are pleased to add WiebeTech employees and their highly respected product line

Thanks to television shows like CSI, people are now more aware of what computer forensic analysts like Aswami Fadillah Mohd Ariffin do for a living. Although what is depicted is not always accurate, the digital forensics head at Cybersecurity Malaysia

The UK government has published guidelines for the application of a law that makes it illegal to create or distribute so-called “hacking tools”. The controversial measure is among amendments to the Computer Misuse Act included in the Police and Justice

The Internet is boundless and cybercrime scenes stretch from personal desktops across the fiber networks that circle the globe. Digital forensic investigators like Harold Phipps, vice president of industry relations at Norcross Group in Norcross, Ga., routinely slip across conventional

A new mobile phone faraday bag called the ‘Phone-Shield’ has been launched by Tamworth-based Disklabs, is set to increase the ability of the police to successfully and cost-effectively prosecute in cases where mobile phone data comprises an essential element of

For a guy who just turned 40, Chuck McMullen can turn himself into a fairly convincing teenager. So can Chad Hoffman, 35, who effortlessly sheds 20 years as he point-clicks his way between message windows of online chat rooms. They

Under the recently adopted changes to the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP), the safe harbor provision covering the inadvertent destruction of Electronically Stored Information exists, but it’s a very narrow proviso. In a recently published article, Safe Harbor: Interpreting

Businesses are becoming increasingly frustrated at having no centralised organisation to which they can report instances of computer crime, and are calling on the government to form a central police e-crime unit. David Roberts, chief executive of the Corporate IT