Forensic Focus

The cautionary tale of Matthew Bandy is burning up the Internet, especially tech sites. Until recently, the 16-year-old Arizona boy faced life imprisonment for possessing CP; each of the nine images on his computer carried a possible 10-year sentence…Clearly, the

A ground-breaking new partnership between a college and law enforcement agencies is helping police process more digital evidence and fight cybercrime in Vermont. The Champlain College Center for Digital Investigation (http://www.champlain.edu/news/), which received a $650,000 grant from the U.S. Department

A US computer forensics company is setting up its European headquarters on the outskirts of Cardiff, UK. eMag Solutions is involved in recovering electronic data for businesses, helping reduce e-crime and compiling evidence for court cases… More (BBC)

A leading forensic expert in the Pacific has lauded the grit and determination of police officers in uncovering electronic crime despite them being new to the field of high tech forensic work and having limited resources to work with. John

Silicon Valley high tech crime fighters are helping maintain the valley’s reputation by earning an accreditation as one of the country’s elite computer forensic laboratories. The FBI announced today that the Silicon Valley Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory in Menlo Park

Guidance Software Inc. (NASDAQ:GUID) today announced the release of the latest version of its EnCase® digital investigative platform. Designed to expand core capabilities across both EnCase Enterprise and EnCase Forensic, v6 includes the deepest set of investigative tools covering more

MANDIANT has announced that Bret Padres has been promoted to Director of its Incident Response program. Bret is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with over twenty years experience in the field of information security, computer forensics, law enforcement

Please use the new Interviews forum ONLY to post potential questions to those who have agreed to be interviewed and are already listed there (i.e. no new threads/topics please). Each thread starts with details of the interviewee and questions should

AusCERT, Australian High Tech Crime Centre, and various state, territory and federal police agencies have provided the most recent report on cybercrime in Australia. This report groups 17 types of cybercrimes which occurred in Australia during the year 2005. Data

The huge adoption of wireless technologies over recent years has placed wireless data (or Wi-Fi) networks, based on the 802.11 specifications, as one of the major attack vectors for organizations nowadays. Incident handlers and law enforcement have been forced to

Fifteen years ago, Christy founded the Pentagon’s first digital forensics lab. Back then, most cops didn’t even bother to seize computers when they executed a search warrant. Ten years ago, he was the guy they tapped to explain computer security

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has secured a federal grant to help a local college and Vermont police fight identity theft and other crimes committed through computers, the Internet and digital technology. The $650,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice

MANDIANT has announced that it has upgraded its free MANDIANT First Response (MFR) software in response to an advisory from researchers at Symantec’s Vulnerability Research program. MANDIANT responded quickly to upgrade the MFR tool to protect against a Denial of

The last time the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to deal with electronic evidence, eight-track tapes were the hot technology, the Internet and cell phones were the stuff of science fiction and computers were room-sized behemoths owned by

From Brian Carrier: Version 2.07 of TSK is now available in source and Win32 executable form: www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/ There are a lot of updates and bug fixes. The summarized list is below. The executive summary is that there are new flags

I’ve been a good boy this year. I spent all my time helping lawyers and judges with electronic data discovery (EDD) and studying really, really hard about electronically stored information (ESI), data harvest, spoliation, de-duplication, meet-and-confer, search tools, forms of