Forensic Focus

Barbara Wadriski’s workplace at the FBI’s Mobile headquarters looks more like the back shop of a computer store than a crime lab. Surrounded by work stations, a long table holds the guts of various computers. Equipment in various stages of

We know that technology can be used to track people’s location via a cellphone, but how difficult is it for law enforcement to get a court order and do this legally? More (Security Focus)

The proceeds of cybercrime now exceed that of the illegal drugs industry, a US Treasury advisor has claimed. According to Valerie McNiven, former World Bank security expert, the turnover of electronically-related crime exceeded $105 billion in 2004, for the first

The Rocky Mountain Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory, the tenth such regional laboratory in the country established and operated with the help of the FBI, is due to officially open January 18. Officials say the lab will greatly improve investigators’ capacity

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As we approach a pervasive computing society, are you prepared for the challenge of using digital forensics to reconstruct a compromise? More (EIT)

Guidance Software had to do a forensic investigation on its own systems after a hacker broke in and accessed records, including credit card data, of thousands of customers. The attack occurred in November, but wasn’t discovered until Dec. 7, John

Jety asks: “I do general-purpose tech support for a variety of individuals and small businesses. Today, one of my clients presented me with an interesting situation, which made me recommend that he get his own attorneys and computer forensics experts

Christine has very kindly mailed me with the following useful link: How to Keep a Digital Chain of Custodyhttp://www.csoonline.com/read/120105/ht_custody.html

Because almost all digital photos, including those used as evidence in court, are vulnerable to tampering, computer scientists and others are busy advancing the state of the art in digital forensics… More (Technology Review)

The world has benefited in many ways from the information technology boom of the last 50 years, but the advancements have given crooks and predators yet another way to victimize. That means criminal investigations must evolve as well. Nowhere has

Business is booming for Computer Forensic Company CY4OR as they expand to meet with the weighty national demand to investigate computer crime. The company is the brain child of computer enthusiast Joel Tobias whose intuitive anticipation of the growth in

With its latest version of Forager® 1.3, Inforenz tackles the rising issue of information leakage by releasing a plug-in for its forensic software that identifies where data is concealed in other files. It enables computer forensic investigators to search for

A North Carolina jury has found a man guilty based on evidence which included Google searches for the terms “neck,” “snap,” “break,” and “hold”. The man has been sentenced to life without parole, but plans to appeal the decision… More

Few things in the world of digital documents are as pesky and revealing as “metadata” – the information automatically embedded in documents by popular software such as Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat. When the government or a business forgets to

What’s the best way to get into a criminal’s head? One group of area sleuths knows: Get into their computers. That’s what the men and women assigned to the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory do every day in