A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views:
Presenting digital evidence in court
Presenting digital evidence in court is an onerous and complex process. Dr Ian Kennedy CITP FBCS MCSFS outlines the processes, rules and future of digital forensics…
Six parts of your car that gather data on you
You can tell a lot about someone from the car they drive. The data that many vehicles now collect can reveal the patterns of our daily lives and provide insights into our behaviour, actions and even our state of mind…
Online sexual abuse imagery of primary school children has soared by 1,000 per cent since lockdown
Imagery of primary school aged children sexually abusing themselves on camera has soared by more than 1,000 per cent since the UK went into lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, new data shows…
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SP 800-201 (Draft), NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Reference Architecture
This document addresses the need to support a cloud system’s forensic readiness, which is the ability to quickly and effectively collect digital evidence with minimal investigation costs…
Notorious Finnish Hacker ‘Zeekill’ Busted by French Police
French police arrested a notorious hacker who’s suspected of forming part of an extortion scheme that targeted a Finnish psychotherapy practice and its patients…
Ineffective organisation of digital forensics slowing down cases
Legacy risk assessment tool has not kept pace with new types of offense and demand levels. Ineffective methods of risk assessment and the processing of items for digital forensic analysis are slowing down investigations…
GST intelligence wing, NFSU join hands to set up digital forensic lab
Picking up the new-age digital forensics, the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) and the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) have joined hands to set up digital forensic laboratories for effective prosecutions of tax evaders…
