Forensic Focus

The Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) are teaming up to request for additional budget to build both agencies’ digital forensics infrastructure. NBI Anti-Fraud and Computer Crimes Division (AFCCD) Director Atty. Elfren Meneses told INQ7.NET

Guidance Software has partnered with Sybex, a John Wiley imprint, to release the industry’s first in-depth study guide for EnCE(TM), one of the most widely-held forensic examiners certifications… More (press release)

When a computer, cell phone, e-mail or other high-tech device holds the key to a crime, cyber sleuths are called to dissect the digital evidence. In south Alabama, it’s Gus Dimitrelos, who is based in a Spanish Fort police office

To meet the growing demand for people to investigate computer crime, Bloomsburg University is adding a major in computer forensics. Bloomsburg this fall will become the first school in the State System of Higher Education to offer the degree… More

It was only a single digit in a 20-page Microsoft Word contract between two partners, but Scott Cooper earned his fee several years ago when he found it. Mr. Cooper, a computer forensics expert, learned that the numeral “1” had

IDEMA, the International Disk Drive, Equipment, and Materials Association, has announced the results of an industry committee assembled to identify a new and longer sector standard for future magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs). This Committee recommended replacing the 30 year-standard

The schedule for the Conference on Digital Forensics to be held in Las Vegas at the Imperial Palace Hotel on April 20 and 21 is planned as follows (click “Read More” below)…THURSDAY 09:30am-11:00am Registration & Continental Breakfast 11:00am-12:00pm session I1)

The UK Government yesterday launched the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). One function of SOCA is to replace the National Hi Tech Crime Unit. The NHTCU, launched in April 2001, was the UK’s first national law enforcement organisation dealing exclusively

A new paper, "Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry" by Lih Wern Wong, is now online here.

The first digital forensic software tool capable of automatically reassembling fragments of graphic images, even when information regarding the locations of the fragments no longer exists, has been developed. The tool will greatly enhance the amount of evidence that can

Firms need more staff with computer forensic skills and should lobby suppliers for safer products, according to speakers at last week’s E-Crime Congress in London. Simon Janes of data recovery vendor Ibas, and former head of Scotland Yard’s Computer Crime

An increase in high-tech crime is forcing police to undergo special training to successfully investigate such cases. To ensure there are enough trained investigators the Thousand Oaks City Council approved a $40,207 payment last week to help fund three new

Jeffrey Trombly doesn’t have a Sam Spade-style fedora or a Sherlock Holmesian deerstalker cap, but he is in the detective business. Trombly is half of the two-man IT company that does business as Empire Technology Solutions. He has been doing

Buffalo is fast becoming a center for research, education and new practices in cybersecurity and computer forensics, according to the hosts of a workshop on these topics to be held March 31 in the Center for Tomorrow on the University

A new paper, “Evidentiary Value of Link Files” by Nathan Weilbacher, has been added to the Papers & Articles page.

He is alone in front of his computer, and with the click of a button, his crime is erased – or so the technically savvy criminal may think. And to extract the evidence from computer hard drives, cell phones, personal