Forensic Focus

This week Robert Vamosi interviews Dave Merkel, Mandiant’s vice president of products, about how investigators go about finding or (as we’ll soon hear) not finding the people responsible for cybercrime. Merkel is a former agent with the U.S. Air Force

Any firm hiring an unlicensed computer investigator runs the risk of having all information obtained in the process invalidated. Hiring an expert witness to testify in cases involving electronically stored information, computer crimes, misuse of computers, or any other computer

United States Federal Courts are reluctant to accept high-computer-forensic costs as a reason to waive production of electronic data. When electronic data like corporate e-mails cannot be easily produced, computer forensic experts are required. Services rendered by computer forensic experts

Tazewell County authorities are on the hunt. They’re looking for a computer and financial crimes investigator to coordinate their new computer crime task force. State’s Attorney Stewart Umholtz says he’s received the okay from the Tazewell county board to hire

Craig is sitting in his office enjoying a cup of coffee when his telephone rings. He answers and on the line is his boss, George, the laboratory director. George informs Craig that he wants to provide Digital Forensic analysis services

Recently, I attended a barbecue at a friend’s house in north London, where another friend was trying to fix his laptop. “Do you realise that there are three people, right now, using your wireless broadband?” the computer expert asked my

Wouldn’t it be great if we could just look up the term “digital forensics” in the dictionary? Unfortunately, as you and others have found, it is not that easy. Even better, wouldn’t it be great if we could sort out

If you think finding out who did what with your data always means calling in high-priced spooks armed with arcane software, think again. The trend is toward placing the power to handle investigations in the hands of enterprises themselves. Why?

From prominent murder cases to lowly divorce proceedings, the e-mail messages that people send and the Web sites they view can and will be used in court. The people who unearth this data and make it usable in the courtroom

UK businesses are calling for a dedicated national police unit to deal with the growing computer crime threat posed by hackers and international gangs of criminals. Organisations must currently report any attacks on their network or data to local police

The use of appropriate standards and controls is essential during forensic analyses if the resulting conclusions are to be considered scientific and used for prosecutorial purposes. No forensic examiner can rightly state that he or she provided quality analytical results

The practice of Reverse Engineering of computer programs has grown out of its obscure and nefarious origins and entered the realm of Computer Forensics. On an increasing basis Computer Forensic Examiners are encountering critical evidence of sophisticated cyber crimes contained

Approximately two years ago, the Indiana State Police instituted a unique program in which examiners conduct on scene computer forensics. The goal of the Computer Forensics Field Triage program is to utilize departmental resources efficiently to improve cyber crime investigations

WHAT’S NEW? * Ability to extract e-mail messages and attachments from AOL PFC files. (forensic license only) Note that if these files have no extension, only a signature check will identify them as PFC files. * Can now extract embedded

The New Britain police department’s computer crime expert was stumped. The state police’s lab couldn’t help. Even the FBI didn’t have the answer. But Lt. James Wardwell kept searching, trying to find some way to infiltrate a stack of erased

The second annual New Zealand Computer Crime and Security Survey has revealed New Zealand organisations are ill-equipped to preserve computer forensic evidence. The University of Otago conducted survey – which aims to raise the level of security awareness and determine