Forensic Focus

Digital forensics has taken a step forward, thanks to a technique developed at State University of New York at Binghamton. A group of researchers led by Jessica Fridrich, associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, has applied

Five of the largest American ISPs are partnering up to fight CP. AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft, United Online (Netzero/Juno) and Yahoo will help the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) by developing a database of CP pictures and donating

PivX Solutions, Inc., a vendor of Windows intrusion prevention software, today named digital forensics expert Jason Coombs as the company’s new Chairman and CEO. Mr. Coombs assumes control of PivX Solutions at a time of significant change in the security

The Canadian Institute of Learning in Brampton, a private career college, is now offering a course in computer forensics, the first of its kind to be offered in Canada. Computer forensics is common in the United States, and it is

In the ongoing UBS computer sabotage trial, the government’s forensics expert testified that he connected defendant Roger Duronio’s user name and home computer directly to the logic bomb that took down the company network… More (Information Week)

The new libewf release now supports writing EWF files using an acquire tool called, ewfacquire. This tool supports reading devices in Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS-X/Darwin. On other platforms it can convert a raw (dd) image into a EWF file.

Cyber crime is costing UK companies up to 270,000GBP every 60 minutes – but many are unaware of the sheer scale of the outbreak, independent risk consultants have warned… More (Contractor UK)

For those who understand Dutch: “Om meer samenhang te creëren in de bestrijding van cybercrime wil het kabinet alle activiteiten onderbrengen in een Nationale Infrastructuur Bestrijding Cybercrime. Daarnaast komt er voor de daadwerkelijke opsporing en vervolging een speciaal centrum bij

This week computer experts from the EU Member States have been exchanging their views on how to stop the increasing number of crimes which are carried out in cyber space… More (noticias.info)

The FBI estimates 80 percent of all criminals leave behind some sort of electronic evidence. That’s one of the reasons it decided to open 13 new computer forensic laboratories across the country with the most recent being right here in

The computer forensics stream is being introduced to the Institute’s four-year BSc (Hons) in Applied Computing to meet the demand for expertise across the public and private sectors in Ireland and overseas. As well as helping to combat corporate crime,

The clause of a law which forces people to hand over encryption keys will be activated after controversy delayed its implementation for six years. But one security expert has warned that the law itself could cause more criminals to turn

Newport University’s Business School will launch a graduate course in computer forensics this September. Speaking at the B2B Wales event in Cardiff, Tony Corner, head of computing at Newport Business School, and Eric Llewellyn, senior lecturer in computing, announced the

What happens if a suspect deliberately attempts to remove all traces of his activity from his PC? This and other forensic issues will be covered on 12 July in London at a seminar run by BCS’s Information Security SG. Full

UK computer forensics firm, Zentek Forensics, claims that whilst web-jacking is a new phenomena for home PC users, similar techniques are being widely-used in commercial environments. Web-jacking involves planting a Trojan on a PC or server in order to gain

A recent proposal by the U.S. Department of Justice that would mandate Internet Service Providers to retain certain records represents a dangerous trend of turning private companies into proxies for law enforcement or intelligence agencies against the interests of their