Forensic Focus

You can do so many marvellous things these days with digital cameras, it’s a wonder anybody bothers with analogue hardware any more. Why would you want to spend hours wading through old video tapes, to find the exact moment when

He was one of the first deputies assigned to the Monroe County computer-crime unit. Now he’s accused of a computer crime himself. Forty-four-year-old Investigator Michael Hildreth is accused of eavesdropping on next-door neighbor James Missel and changing information on Missel’s

The government’s forensics investigator stood up to an aggressive cross-examination from the defense Wednesday during his fourth day on the stand in the computer sabotage trial of a former systems administrator. Keith Jones, director of computer forensics and incident response

Steve Bunting is the head of the police computer forensics unit in Delaware and, together with co-author William Wei, a computer crime detective in New Jersey, has written an outstanding book which should find a place on every computer forensic

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