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A Swedish man who created malware which infected half a million computers around the world has been jailed in New York. Alex Yucel, 25, owned the Blackshade organisation which sold sophisticated software to thousands of hackers in more than 100

At a police building in south London, which I’ve been asked not to identify, I’m led through security gates, into the lift, up several floors and along a corridor to Scotland Yard’s Communications Intelligence Unit. A sign on the door

MediaClone is seeking a Sales Rep. to sell the MediaClone Forensic line of products to a wide variety of potentials customers, including many US government branches, and local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as e-Discovery and legal

Date: Tuesday June 30, 2015Time: 10:00am CST / 4:00pm BST / 3:00pm GMT Cloud Forensics brings unique concerns regarding acquisition, preservation, and analysis of potential digital evidence. Examiners will find less allocated evidence left behind on a system when a

Most would agree that the golden age of mobile forensics is over. There is no longer an easy way to get through the passcode in new iOS devices running the latest version of iOS. Chip-off acquisition is dead for iOS

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights from the Techno Security and Forensics Investigations Conference (TSFIC) held in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, from the 31st of May until the 3rd of June 2015. The conference began

At the South Austin, Texas, home of George De La Cruz, a one-story house with baby blue trim and a concrete porch lined with potted plants, investigators found no body. No physical proof Julie Ann Gonzalez was killed. Prosecutors took

ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company announced that they added some forensic features to their ReclaiMe Pro software. The new features, added to better serve digital investigators’ needs, include • file traces, • calculating file hashes and searching by hashes,• file content

Digital forensic examiners are confronted by many challenges today. More people are using the Cloud as a conduit for criminal activity and the countdown is on for the release of the Microsoft Windows 10 operating system. Examiners must be ready

Learning iOS Forensics is a practical textbook that aims to help digital forensics examiners of all levels to get to grips with the procedures involved in forensically analysing iOS devices. The book opens with a preface, which describes how the

Over the last decade, digital or cyber forensics has become a key part of criminal investigations, helping to solve or expedite cases that would have previously gone unsolved. The growing trail of digital evidence that investigators can tap is almost

A US secret service agent who helped track down Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht is to plead guilty to a string of fraud and money laundering charges. Special agent Shaun Bridges worked as a computer forensics expert to help locate

A month ago, Magnet Forensics launched the Magnet ACQUIRE beta program and welcomed customers to download and try the new smartphone acquisition tool. The early feedback from the community has been positive. Many users have shared success stories detailing how

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. What would you do in a case involving IIOC embedded within a game? How would you load and analyse a partially-acquired image? Forum members debate the usefulness of

The Netherlands Forensic Institute is working on a Linux-based forensic operating system that will enable the police to secure and remotely analyze evidence related to botnets, project leader Ruud Schramp told Security.NL. Securing and analyzing digital evidence related to botnets

The White House on Friday revealed that hackers had breached a second computer system at the Office of Personnel Management, and said that President Obama was considering financial sanctions against the attackers who gained access to the files of millions