Forensic Focus

Vacant space in the City-County Building has Madison Police and the Dane County Sheriff’s Department is expanding their computer crime units. And it’s not just about more space – it’s about handling more cases. The new city/county computer crime facility

Tightening up existing legislation will help UK authorities to prosecute hackers better and put them in prison longer – but analysts question whether the moves will constrict an explosive growth in costly cybercrime. The UK has sought to tighten the

Marcus Rogers started as a beat cop, but it’s what he did on the side that led him to busting cyber crooks. Now an associate professor of computer technology, Rogers used to run his own Internet service provider and build

One of the hottest new courses on U.S. college campuses is a direct result of cybercrime. Classes in digital forensics — the collection, examination and presentation of digitally stored evidence in criminal and civil investigations — are cropping up as

Detective Randy Stone carried a shotgun as he walked up to help serve a search warrant on the house at 11944 W. Rolling Hills Court just before Christmas. Stone, a Sedgwick County computer forensic expert and SWAT team member, helped

The overriding principle concerning all phases of seizing and processing electronic evidence i.e. seized computers, disks and other media, should be never to alter the evidence from its original state. This should ensure its admissibility in court or other legal

Andy Harbison’s business card may read ‘senior manager, enterprise risk services’ and his reputation is as one of the country’s foremost computer forensics practitioners but it’s hard to escape the impression that he could tell you a thing or two

Computer forensics labs in Alabama will receive $987,227 from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to Sen. Richard Shelby. The money will be routed through the Alabama District Attorneys Association. According to a news release form Shelby’s officer, the ADAA

Identity theft and other computer crimes are overwhelming police departments in many of Wisconsin’s smaller towns and villages. They simply don’t have the resources to go after high-tech criminals. Denmark Police Chief Ron Towns considers his community safe. What’s becoming

An Internet supercop has been appointed to track down online fraudsters. Detective Constable Scott Rennie will spearhead investigations into crooks using auction website eBay. The move by Strathclyde Police comes as internet crime in the UK has soared to a

Cybercrooks are stealing billions. An inside look at law enforcement’s biggest targets…

EnterpriseDB has announced that Perlustro will integrate EnterpriseDB Advanced Server into its ILook Investigator Forensic Software (ILook), a comprehensive suite of computer forensics tools used to acquire and analyze digital media. ILook’s development is supported by the IRS Criminal Investigation

“Imagine that someone has stabbed Pamela Mills-Senn in her apartment,” says Currie, OIC of the technological crime branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). “One of her neighbors has come over and found her dead and calls the police.

Eric McCarty goes before a federal judge this month on charges he damaged the University of Southern California’s online application system. McCarty, 25, says he was just trying to highlight the Web site’s security vulnerabilities. A not-guilty plea just might

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a new security feature in Windows Vista, designed to work with the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Basically, it encrypts the C drive with a computer-generated key. In its basic mode, an attacker can still access the

From Brian Carrier: Based on the success of the Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS)2005 memory analysis challenge, a new challenge is being posted for DFRWS2006. This year, the focus is on file carving techniques. The challenge data set contains JPEG,