Forensic Focus

Computer crime is on the rise everywhere. Few police departments have the resources to do much about it. That may soon change in central Virginia. It used to be a police or sheriff’s department would get just a few computer

The jailing this week of self-styled “Big Crook” Chan Nai-ming for downloading and distributing movies on the Internet has put Hong Kong at the forefront of the worldwide fight against digital piracy. And the message Friday from senior superintendent Daniel

Organised criminals are starting to recruit IT students, according to a new report from security vendor McAfee. The revelation came as experts called for a greater focus on ethics in technology courses. The McAfee Virtual Criminology Report into organised crime

Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Kaspersky Labs, has called for greater international law enforcement co-operation to combat the growing threat from cybercrime. Interpol, which helps national police forces to work together, has a financial and hi-tech crime sub-directorate

Corporate investigation company Paragon NZ is setting up what will be the country’s largest forensic computer laboratory at its Auckland headquarters. Paragon director Ron McQuilter said when it opened for business in February it would be bigger than any of

The suspect’s constant keystrokes inside an underground nuclear laboratory in New Mexico uncovered personal photographs, voice mails and secret passwords. The worried victims, a rock star and his Playmate wife, called their Los Angeles attorney. A pair of investigators worked

Prairie State College (Chicago area, US) will offer a class this spring that will keep students on the cutting edge of the Internet age. Shelly Hokanson, assistant professor and course coordinator for information technology, said Prairie State is one of

The United States implemented several changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure last Friday that could make waves for Canadian IT staff working not only in law, but in all industries. Electronic discovery (or e-discovery) governance has generally been

I’ve noticed there is a fair amount of confusion about how forensics tools work behind the scenes. If you’ve taken a course in digital forensics this will probably be “old hat” for you. If on the other hand, you’re starting

In an amended S-1 filing, Guidance Software (Nasdaq: GUID) indicated it sees an IPO price of $12.50-$14.50 per share on 5 million shares. The company plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “GUID.” The offering is being made

South Korea early this month announced its first digital evidence process guideline, which aims to identify standard procedures that can better help fight cyber crimes. Called Standard Digital Evidence Process Guideline, the study is the first in the country and

The University of Hong Kong and Mainland’s Shandong Academy of Sciences signed Tuesday a collaboration agreement for further research and development of Digital Evidence Search Kit (DESK). DESK, a multilingual computer forensics software, was originated from one of the collaboration

The new Police and Justice Act, published today, could criminalise legitimate IT security activity. There are fears amongst security experts that changes it makes to the Computer Misuse Act will make it illegal to distribute some vital tools. The new

Computer forensic analysts – the consulting detectives of the digital world – are in big demand as computer-related evidence proves increasingly critical in solving crimes. In the days of Raymond Chandler’s wise-cracking sleuth Philip Marlowe, the proverbial “smoking gun” was

GetData Software has released Version 2 of its forensic software, Mount Image Pro, already in use by the FBI, US Secret Service and some of the world’s major police forces. Mount Image Pro™ Version 2 (MIP v2), a forensic investigation

LTU Technologies announced today the release of LTU Image-Seeker for Encase® (ISE), an integration enhancing image analysis capabilities for the computer forensics tool used by law enforcement and government investigators. Delivered as a plug-in for the industry-standard Encase® platform, ISE