Forensic Focus

Digital Forensics. Think of that phrase. It could be the title of a new TV crime show. However, recently developed software by Dr. Hany Farid of Dartmouth College is far more serious than an hour of frivolous, sensationalist TV. In

When Sebastien Boucher stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border, agents who inspected his laptop said they found files containing CP. But when they tried to examine the images after his arrest, authorities were stymied by a password-protected encryption program. Now Boucher

In the new film “Untraceable,” FBI agents are desperate to track down a maniac who tortures people to death and broadcasts his crimes live over the Internet. To find the villain, the agents use the same Internet tools used by

LTU Technologies announced its participation at the inaugural Computer Forensics Show on February 4 – 6, 2008 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. In session L15, on Wednesday, February 6, at 1:00pm EST Alexandre Winter, LTU Technologies CEO

The extraordinary story of the solitary computer geek in a Shepherds Bush bedsit who became the world’s most wanted cyber-jihadist…When specialist forensic science officers arrived, they found that Tsouli had been creating a website called YOUBOMBIT. A banner with the

Evidence stored on computers and other electronic devices is being damaged or destroyed by ignorant staff and investigators. One of the “handful” of people in SA equipped to retrieve digital evidence, Jean Pierre du Plessis from forensic service provider Ferrier

More New Zealand workers are under the watchful gaze of surveillance cameras and tracking devices at work as employers crack down on dishonesty and time-wasting, experts say…Alan Watt, managing director of Computer Forensic Investigations, said he had built a business

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