Forensic Focus

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

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