Forensic Focus

From Brian Carrier: The Windows executables that were released last week did not run on everyone’s systems. A second release is out that uses different compileoptions. http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/download.php

As expert members of the international computer forensics community which provides unique and highly desirable services to the legal system, we assume a responsibility to provide services to those in need yet unable to pay. As a result, the Computer

A piece of software which allows a user to track another person’s mobile phone use would be almost impossible to use in the UK without breaking the law, according to a surveillance law expert. Flexispy is the controversial software which

Besides reading and writing (EnCase) EWF files with the libewf library, it’s now possible to read and write SMART images as well. With the ewfacquire tool you now can create a bit-copy image from devices in the SMART image format

Imagine a laboratory filled with equipment advanced enough to locate deleted CP on a hard drive, recover old e-mails sent on a cell phone and trace the owner of a camera used to download photographs onto a laptop. Welcome to

16 years have passed since the primary piece of legislation to govern cyber-crimes and cyber-criminals (the Computer Misuse Act 1990) was passed, but the power of computer technology and our access to it in the workplace and the home have

Bloomsburg University has introduced a new major that will train students to investigate the improper or illegal use of computers and digital devices, a field known as computer forensics. Computer forensics focuses on collecting, examining and presenting digitally stored evidence

Two Former Federal Agents Talk About Computer Forensics, Network Security and Computer Crime… "This episode we have Keith Jones, Director of Computer Forensics, Incident Response, and Litigation Support for MANDIANT who recently testified as an expert witness in the UBS

An Information technology expert has designed a digital forensic tool that can home in on workplace computers used for criminal activity or deliberate misuse of the Internet. Bennie Fei, a masters student at the University of Pretoria, warned that there

A web browser has been released that promises total privacy for its users. Browzar, as it is known, automatically deletes all traces of the pages a person has visited, and the terms that they have searched for on the web…

From M. E. Kabay’s newsletter at Network World… The fall 2006 semester has begun at Norwich University and I’ll be teaching “Cybercrime and Cyberlaw” with my colleague Adjunct Professor Julie Tower-Pierce. Readers of this column may be interested in two

Forget about breaking and entering, aggravated assault and armed robbery. Cyber crime is taking over. While most of us use computers to work, shop, play games, book vacations, or do banking transactions, a new breed of criminal uses the same

Two Former Federal Agents Talk About Computer Forensics, Network Security and Computer Crime… "Back from vacation. This week we talk with Special Agent David Farquhar from the Federal Bureau of Investigations about his recent successful botnet case in Seattle Washington.

Klayton Monroe and Jay Smith of KoreLogic Security were key members of the team announced as winners of the 2006 File Carving Challenge at the 6th Annual Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS). Challenge participants were asked to develop new tools

Online fraud in Spain experienced a year-on-year growth of 50 percent in the first four months of 2006, the Computer Crime Research Center reports. Although cybercrime may not be viewed as a pressing concern in Spain, according to some sources,

Text messages, archived in cell phones, are now among the routine array of clues that detectives seek: At the very onset of an investigation, they can help finger a suspect quickly. In cases of missing or abducted people, they can