Forensic Focus

Google TechTalks January 24, 2006 Phillip Hallam-Baker

When the CEO of a small San Diego publishing company started receiving threatening e-mails from an anonymous address, he had a pretty good idea that someone in the company’s IT department was involved. The CEO called his lawyers, who in

Software that its developers claim will completely eliminate sensitive data from hard drives has been developed by Nova Development. Drive Erase Pro is targeted at people who want to ensure a hard drive or memory card is truly blank before

Most weekdays, and some weekends and nights, find Special Agent James May sitting in front of a PC in his Detroit office, waiting for some cyberjohn to hit on him. Well, not him exactly, but one of his many teenage

Tom Heflin is the resident surveillance technician and computer forensics expert for the Augusta County Sheriff’s office, the department’s first line of defense against computer-based crimes. His primary job: Cracking open hard drives and electronic media seized by deputies to

If your vision of a high tech criminal is a lone hacker sitting in a college dorm, think again. In just a few short years, cyber crime has evolved from the domain of individuals seeking notoriety to sophisticated organized crime

Federico Biancuzzi interviews Solar Designer, creator of the popular John the Ripper password cracker. Solar Designer discusses what’s new in version 1.7, the advantages of popular cryptographic hashes, the relative speed at which many passwords can now be cracked, and

In today’s electronic environment, many high-profile cases have been solved through forensic searches of computerised media, and experienced electronic discovery professionals are now in great demand. Investigative teams should, however, remember to use electronic discovery in the context of an

The National Security Agency (NSA) visited Silicon Valley this month on the hunt for private sector technology to beef up its already formidable snooping and signals intelligence portfolio. Data mining technologies to search for connections between seemingly unrelated snippets of

Originally known as the Southeast Cyber Crime Summit, the new and improved CyberCrime Summit starts its fourth year in existence. This is due to the growth and realization that the summit reaches beyond the Southeastern U.S. The CyberCrime Summit attracts

Britain’s net industry has named the UK presidency of the EU as its villain of the year. The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) singled out the UK for its role in pushing for Europe-wide data retention laws. The laws, requiring

The controversial Data Retention Directive received its final seal of approval on Tuesday, when Ministers at the Justice and Home Affairs Council adopted the Directive with a qualified majority. Irish and Slovak Ministers voted against the measure. In general terms,

Be careful what you try to deny is the message from Ed Wilding, particularly if files retrieved from electronic devices have your name all over them. The forensic investigation of data held on computers, laptops, cellular telephones, PDAs and other

The Washington Post, famous for hiding the name of its Deep Throat source during the Watergate scandal, might have accidentally revealed the name of one of its sources in a less important yarn about a hacker…the article ran a doctored

In England and Wales the only qualifications required of a jury member to be eligible to appear in a court of law are that they are registered on the electoral roll, aged between 18 and 70 and have lived in

Former CA chairman and chief executive Sanjay Kumar and another CA executive obstructed justice by attempting to erase evidence from computers after the federal government began investigating accounting fraud at the software company, prosecutors say in a letter to defense