Forensic Focus

Globally, Nigeria has become associated with what is known as “advance fee” or 419 fraud. Virtually anyone with an email account will be familiar with this crime, which involves sending emails or faxes to potential victims around the world, sucking

Prosoft Engineering, Inc. announces the availability of RecoverSoft Data Rescue PC Version 2.0. “Data Rescue PC is the best solution for recovering files from a crashed or virus-corrupted hard drive. It comes with a bootable CD so there is no

Within a week of discovering computer equipment in the bombed-out safehouse of slain terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out more than 450 raids targeting followers of al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq. The vital information that led to

Law enforcement in Georgia is behind in getting the training needed to keep pace with a rise in computer-related crimes, causing delays in cases, some Georgia law enforcement officials said. “We just need more of a commitment from law enforcement,

The Philippine National Police (PNP) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (cidg) received on Friday eight-million pesos’ worth of computer forensic hardware and software from the United States Department of State Anti-terrorism Assistance Program… More (inq7.net)

MANDIANT has announced an upgrade to their popular MANDIANT Web Historian software. Web Historian assists users in reviewing websites (URLs) that are stored in the history files of the most commonly used browsers including: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape,

The government’s forensics investigator spent more than three years pouring over UBS’ records and analyzing its network. in preparation for the computer sabotage trial. Here are his top five lists for what the company did right after the attack, and

Mobile phones are changing the lives of both criminals and the investigators that hunt them, mobile phone security experts said at the Infosecurity conference held in New York on Wednesday. With constantly improving storage and processing power, a mobile phone

New Zealand Police plan to set up a high-tech crime reporting centre, in partnership with other government agencies, such as CCIP (Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection) and DIA (Department of Internal Affairs), says Maarten Kleintjes, head of the New Zealand

Australian Forensic Services (AFS) has recently obtained the exclusive rights to provide CCE training in Australia. The CCE certification is rapidly growing in size and recognition with over 400 Certified Computer Examiners worldwide and an additional 200 applicants currently in

A new paper by Chetan Gupta, “Dissecting NTFS Hidden Streams”, is now available online here.

Managing security incidents is essentially a problem of forensics. Peter Stephenson tests three broad groups of products that will enable organisations of all sizes to respond effectively to network attacks. In this group test, we decided to break the mold.

The federal computer crime unit registered a 45 percent increase in the amount of internet-based crimes last year compared with 2004. A large majority of the crimes involved fraud, news agency Belga reported on Tuesday… More (Expatica)

The number of people arrested in Japan for attacking computers with spyware has doubled over the past four years, the FT reported yesterday. According to a report published by the Japanese government, a total of 116 people were arrested in

Decades ago, criminals seemed to only have weapons such as guns or knives at their disposal, but now, many work with a keyboard and mouse — and their work can be just as harmful or deadly. That’s when officers like

A police digital forensics expert has admitted that some mobile phones are impenetrable to software used by police in forensic examinations. The revelation follows a paper by a Cambridge researcher which originally made the claim. “There are some phones that