Head Swap On Seagate Css Hard Drives

After the first head replacement tool made for Maxtor hard drives got top grades, HddSurgery continued researching and developing products for head swap operations on hard drives. After years of developing and innovating, we are proud to know that our

Interview with Joe Giordano, Professor of Practice, Utica College

Joe, can you tell us something about your background and why you decided to teach digital forensics? I am a Professor of Practice at Utica College (Utica, New York) and also serve as the director of two master’s degree programs

ReclaiMe Has Implemented Drobo Recovery Capability

ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company announced that their ReclaiMe Pro software now is equipped with Drobo recovery algorithms. The recovery techniques used in ReclaiMe Pro allow to recover data from broken Drobo units like Drobo 5N, Drobo 5D, and Drobo FS.Two

Review: Learning Android Forensics

Learning Android Forensics was written by Rohit Tamma and Donnie Tindall, and aims to provide a thorough introduction to the forensic analysis of smartphones running the Android operating system, from the initial setup of a forensic workstation through to analysing

Webinar: Indicators of Compromise

A recording of the webinar “Indicators of Compromise: What’s Interesting, What’s Not and What Else Is Needed” is now online and available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Should university courses include open-source or commercial software, or a mixture of both? Add your thoughts on the forum. Forum members discuss whether it is possible to recover

UK Government Tackles Dark Web With New Cybercrime Unit

The UK government has launched a dedicated cybercrime unit given the task of tackling serious crime rings and the sexual abuse of children online. The Dark Web is a tiny area of the Deep Web – a hidden area of

US Charges Three In Cyberfraud Targeting JPMorgan And Others

U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against three men accused of running a sprawling computer hacking and fraud scheme that included a huge attack against JPMorgan Chase & Co and generated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profit.

Virtual Hard Disk Image Format – A Forensic Overview

by Anil Kumar The hard disk of a VM is implemented as the files, which live on their native file systems of the host machine. MS Virtual PC & MS Virtual Server support the below mentioned types of virtual hard

Interview With Julia Pakhomova, Chief Developer, ReclaiMe

Julia, you're Chief Developer at ReclaiMe. Could you tell our readers a bit about your role, and what an average day looks like? Actually, ReclaiMe is not that big a company and the chief developer position is not limited to

(ISC)2 Offers Global Digital Forensics Credential With Regional Adaptation

CCFP is the first certification available within the cyber forensics discipline that reflects internationally accepted practices while accommodating the specific knowledge required by forensics professionals at a regional level. The CCFP exam is developed for regional markets following a series

Forensic Analysis Of Third Party Applications: Instagram

by Nor Zarina Binti Zainal Abidin Forensic analysis of mobile phones’ third party applications is a new area that needs to be explored. There are a lot of third party applications available in App store. Mobile forensic software tools basically

The Future of Mobile Forensics: November 2015 Follow-Up

Mobile forensics is a moving target. In our recent article, “The Future of Mobile Forensics”, we described acquisition techniques that used to be state-of-the art back then. Weeks later, some things had changed already. Three months after the publication a

Interview With Heather Mahalik, Senior Instructor, SANS

Heather, please tell us about your role as a Senior Instructor at SANS as well as a Forensic Scientist – what does your day-to-day routine look like? As a Senior Instructor for SANS, I travel around the world to teach