Forensic Focus

Moves by several European countries to tighten laws against computer hacking worry security professionals, who often use the same tools as hackers but for legitimate purposes. The U.K. and Germany are among the countries that are considering revisions to their

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Lawhttp://www.jdfsl.org/Special Issue on International & Comparative Digital Forensics, Security and LawCALL FOR PAPERS – Submission Deadline: 31 January 2007The globalization of business relations, and the occurrence of international frauds, brought the frequent occurrence of

Northwest Vista College (San Antonio, US) has launched a new associate’s degree program designed to help prepare students for a career in computer forensics. Students who pursue an associate of applied science degree in computer forensics technology will learn information

An investigation into a seemingly routine series of spam messages has revealed how sophisticated the business of online crime has become. The story begins with the junk mail messages themselves that were sent during April and May of 2006… More

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department is seeking funding for a new interagency computer crimes task force to combat online CP, identity theft and fraud. “There’s just a huge gamut of offenses that are occurring on a daily basis,” said Boone

Electronic data discovery costs less than paper discovery. Honest. In comparable volumes, it’s cheaper to collect, index, store, copy, transport, search and share electronically stored information. But we hoard data with an indiscriminate tenacity we’d label mental illness if we

A bill to counter computer crimes is stuck in parliament for over a year, illustrating the daunting task facing those who try to modernise laws to take Sri Lanka towards a digital age, officials said Friday. The law was first

Businesses have been told they must gain an understanding of computer forensics if they are to keep pace with the growing level of threat from within the enterprise. Bruce Nikkel, head of the IT investigation and forensics department at UBS,

Members of the Barbados Defence Force have stepped up their game in the fight against computer related crime. Sixteen BDF officers of various ranking recently completed the Digital Forensics Course and they received their certificates at the Barbados Defence Force

What must be proven before charges can be brought against a suspected offender? What are the initial steps carried out when commencing a forensic examination? Ian Kennedy continues his look at computer forensics… More (BCS)

Pasadena-based Guidance Software, a developer of software used for digital forensics, has filed for an IPO. Guidance, in an SEC filing Friday, said it is looking to raise up to $80M in an IPO on the Nasdaq under the symbol

Cyber scams are increasingly being committed by organised crime syndicates out to profit from sophisticated ruses rather than hackers keen to make an online name for themselves, according to a top U.S. official. Christopher Painter, deputy chief of the computer

In an effort to improve forensic research in Rhode Island, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that the University of Rhode Island will receive $599,793 to purchase improved computer software technology. The money will be dispersed in two grants

During his law enforcement days Harry Megerian got his hands on a lot of IT gear – by brute force. “We probably did a raid once a week or once every two weeks,” says Megerian, a former computer forensics specialist

A new breed of forensic tools, designed with the help of Whangarei-based Thackray Forensics, can now access and clone the full contents of a mobile phone or PDA within seconds. Managing director John Thackray is one of a handful of

From Brian Carrier: Major improvements for TSK are fixes for segfaults that were discussed on the mailing list, new versions of libewf and afflib that add support for the SMART format and that fix some compile bugs (respectively), and …