Forensic Focus

In the words of the Metropolitan Police, computer crime needs to be ‘mainstreamed’ – brought into the law enforcement fold instead of being seen as something different. It would be a fair analogy to say that the situation is similar

Northumbria University has joined forces with IT security firm Sapphire in a collaboration to share knowledge and expertise and develop the North East UK as a hub for computer forensic specialists. Sapphire provides clients with a range of computer forensics

WHAT’S NEW IN V13.5? When searching for keywords and you are not interested in each and every search hit, but merely in a list of files that contain at least one the specified keywords, the logical search now allows you

Ireland will play host to international cyber crime training events for European law enforcement officers at the Garda College in Templemore, siliconrepublic.com has learned. According to Detective Inspector Paul Gillen, who is project manager of the programme, the training courses

Following the 2006 International Virus Bulletin Conference, Kelly Martin takes a look at the profit motives of the cyber criminals behind modern viruses, targeted trojans, phishing scams and botnet attacks that are stealing millions from organizations and individuals… More (SecurityFocus)

A federal prosecutor says computer forensics played a “critical role” in the investigation that led to the arrest of a Wisconsin man in connection with the fake terrorist threat against football stadiums… More (InformationWeek)

THE popularity of digital cameras and the growth in portable storage is driving demand for data recovery services, with firms charging up to $3500 to pull data from fried drives. The recovery sector – traditionally serving small businesses that lose

Christopher Painter, principal deputy chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, attended the G8 24/7 High Tech Crime Network meeting last week in Rome. The network started in 1997 with the G8 countries, which

Charleston’s digital detectives unearth fragile evidence, and they sift through mind-boggling amounts of data to get to it. Deleted cell phone text messages, photos hidden in strings of numeric code, logs of Web addresses. All could provide breakthroughs in a

Lenovo announced this week that it is arming its ThinkPad notebooks with the ability to fully encrypt the hard drive to bolster security. Lenovo’s latest technology move links fingerprint identity to the active directory. The fingerprint swipe recognizes 30 data

A new digital forensics center opened Thursday in Louisville, a move Kentucky law enforcement said will help them catch and prosecute criminals. The Kentucky Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory will serve as a central place for law enforcement officers to seek

As e-discovery becomes the most common method to collect evidence, court sanctions for evidence tampering get unforgiving. In a recent decision, a Massachusetts District court granted summary judgment for defendant and allowed defendant to recover costs and attorney fees when

This year in the movie “Firewall,” Harrison Ford made security engineers into heroes when he portrayed Jack Stanfield, a banking brainiac whose firewall system becomes a sticking point for a gang of ruthless baddies. Ford gets told to transfer $100

Technalign announced the new release of Frontier Forensics SECS (Secured Evidence Collection System). The new tool replaces Version XI and continues to use MEPIS Linux as the operating system base. The new SECS product will be available via Forensic Computers

A new version of libewf has been made available, with better error handling. There is basic EWF-L01 (logical evidence file) support in there, but L01 file support has been disabled because it is still experimental. The library contains no interface

Two professors in Purdue University’s College of Technology who research digital forensics recently received grants to fund projects that will make it easier for law enforcement officials to gather and evaluate potentially illegal pictures, documents or information from computers, cell