Forensic Focus

Between my fingers typing these words and the Word application which records them there is a huge range of different programs, not all of which I know intimately. If even a simple document such as this is potentially affected by

Derek Wyatt, chairman of the All Party Internet Group, is to raise a 10 minute rule bill in the Commons next month calling for the Computer Misuse Act to be strengthened. The move follows a campaign by Computer Weekly, businesses

Intel is developing a technology that promises to uncover hidden information in digital images and videos and create output files of significantly higher resolution and quality. “Super Resolution” (SR) consumes enormous computing resources, but is on track to reduce the

Computers seized from Michael Jackson’s bedroom and containing stored images of naked women from adult Web sites are not admissible at the singer’s child-molestation trial, Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville ruled Wednesday. Melville said he barred the materials because it

Kroll Ontrack(R) has honored top legal professionals with its third annual Electronic Evidence Thought Leadership Awards. Award recipients include law firms, litigators, practice support professionals and scholars who have shown excellence and leadership in the field of electronic discovery. More

Modern detectives are now using cell phone forensics to capture more and more criminals. Forensics, the science of preserving, extracting and examining data, has long been confined to computers. Now, with the help of cell phone seizure kits like the

The police have long complained that organisations that are the victims of computer crime are reluctant to come forward for fear an investigation will cripple their business as the police seize servers and PCs as evidence. On the other hand,

A new paper, “Computer Forensics – A Business Tool”, by Andy Fox of Audax Digital Forensics is now online and can be read at http://www.forensicfocus.com/computer-forensics-business-tool

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