Black Hat DC: Feds seek new digital forensic tools

Join MSAB's webinar to learn about its analytics tool, XAMN. It combines efficiency with ease of use and powerful search capabilities, making it an excellent choice for digital investigators who need to discover, analyze, package, and share digital evidence and artifacts from a crime scene quickly and securely. We will also present our personal experience of some cases where various Police units found digital evidence in a flood of data with astonishing speed and result.

This week, Christa and Si talk with Cyacomb's Graham Little and Mike Burridge about the technology it takes to identify child sexual abuse and terrorist imagery, on both devices and the online world. The balance between public safety and privacy is discussed, along with challenges faced by both social media providers preventing imagery from being shared, and law enforcement investigating the perpetrators. Also described: technological challenges and what they mean for investigations and prosecutions, including the need for training and education of users; and new developments coming from Cyacomb.

In the FT-Day keynote address, First Lieutenant Andreas Arbogast from the German Bureau of Crime North-Rhine Westphalia speaks about use cases and how the mobile data analytics lab built by mhService helps their cybercrime team to solve their cases faster and how they are implementing this tool in their IT-environment to achieve the perfect results.