Forensic Focus

Blue lights flashed inside the Menlo Park office suite, a signal to the “propeller heads” – highly trained forensic computer examiners – that fellow FBI agents had arrived with another cyber-mystery for them to solve. This one was buried somewhere

Electronic crime detection experts are working with police and forensic detectives in a Scottish university to establish new techniques to detect cyber crime, especially CP. “Anybody using a computer leaves a trail, and it’s very hard to cover that trail

The FBI’s Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (RCFL) initiative has been chosen as one of the “Top 50” programs in the 2005 Innovations in American Government Awards competition. The RCFL Program is a national network of one-stop, full-service digital evidence laboratories.

Police in London say they have foiled one of the biggest attempted bank thefts in Britain. The plan was to steal £220m ($423m) from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui. Computer experts are believed to have tried

Five European governments are setting up a hi-tech team to monitor how terrorists and criminals use the net. The group will make recommendations on shutting down websites that break terrorism laws. The plans for the initiative came out of a

Forensics was a word repeated throughout this week’s SecureWorld conference. Experts mentioned the media firestorm that has enveloped ChoicePoint and other companies where hackers were able to steal mountains of consumer data that could eventually be used for identity theft

During any computer forensics operation, the state of the target machine must be left as undisturbed as possible. This underlying principle applies to all forensics activities, ranging from the field preview to the full blown examination in a lab. Nevertheless,

Proposals to create a professional institution that would set minimum standards of professionalism for IT security specialists have won backing from the government and leading businesses. The form the institute will take has yet to be decided. One of the

Watching movies and your favorite episode of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation), you would think that recorded video is always crystal clear, easily showing a suspect’s face or his license plate, but this is far from reality. In fact, the recorded

When Coreen Kulvich and Meredith Tanner explore hard drives and Zip disks, they’re hunting more than just bytes of data. They’re looking for convictions. Kulvich, 29, and Tanner, 28, make up the Dakota County Sheriff Department’s small but increasingly vital

An Australian ISP was raided 10th March under court orders for alleged copyright infringement in the first crackdown on the illicit use of BitTorrent technology. Perth-based ISP People Telecom (formerly known as Swiftel Communications), which is listed on the Australian

Want to communicate your thoughts privately or anonymously? Step away from the computer. Say it with flowers. Or a whisper. Or at least a pen. If you won’t do it for yourself, do it for your lawyer – the one

Should Undercover Internet Investigations be publicized in the Media? By Sergeant Frank Kardasz More (New Criminologist)

IT managers and their staffs now have the Windows Security Log Encyclopedia, a new Windows tool for monitoring, intrusion detection and for carrying out computer forensics. The new tool covers all nine audit categories of Windows Server 2003 and illuminates

“Whenever you delete a file, you’re really not deleting the file,” said Georges Stokes, system administrator for Air Armament Center plans and programs office. “The data is still technically there.” The information that people attempt to delete from their computers

The Indian Society of Criminology (ISC) in coordination with Valliant CISSTech is to offer certificate courses on Cyber Forensics and Penetration Testing. Announcing this at a press meet in Chennai yesterday, R Thilagaraj, secretary, ISC and head of the department