Forensic Focus

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

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