Forensic Focus

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

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