Forensic Focus

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

Digital documents and storage devices hold the key to many ongoing military and criminal investigations. The most straightforward approach to using these media and documents is to explore them with ordinary tools – open the word files with Microsoft Word,

Data Genetics International (DGI), one of the UK’s largest independent IT forensics companies specialising in the prevention and investigation of workplace computer crime, has appointed James Coulthard to its Leeds office. He joins from the West Yorkshire Police Hi Tech

Institute of e-forensics Ltd has earmarked Rs 250 crore to set up electronic forensic institutes and cyber labs. Christened National Institute of e-Forensics (NIEF), the training institutes will offer short and long-term courses in cyber and mobile forensic computing, Sachin

State police officials want a new facility to investigate crimes on cyberspace to help keep pace with the demand for analyzing digital forensic evidence. Officials said yesterday that the effort to build the proposed Virginia Digital Forensics Laboratory is a

The UCF Board of Trustees on Thursday approved the creation of new master’s degree programs in Digital Forensics. The master’s degree in Digital Forensics will prepare students to work in government or private forensics labs or as industry experts in

Cellphone forensics do present some challenges. Unlike personal computers, cellphones feature a multitude of proprietary operating systems, requiring investigators to use different methods for extracting data from different phones. By law, police making an arrest aren’t allowed to examine a

Kroll Ontrack , a provider of data recovery products and services has extended its operations with the opening of a Singapore office this week. Headquartered in Minneapolis,Minnesota, Kroll Ontrack said its decision to open a Singapore branch was a direct

WHAT’S NEW? * Ability to completely access media, RAIDs and interpreted image files with more than 4.3 billion (2^32) sectors. Allows to read data from beyond the 2 TB barrier on media with a sector size of 512 bytes. *

A number of high profile incidents have led to a growing clamour of support from security industry experts and the public alike, which today was endorsed by the head of computer crime at the Metropolitan Police. Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie,