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While Windows desktops and laptops are relatively easy to acquire, the same cannot be said about portable Windows devices such as tablets and convertibles (devices with detachable keyboards). Having no FireWire ports and supplied with a limited set of external

Thought I'd share a recent experience. I'm an internal corporate resource in a team of one (i.e. me). We had to get images of a number of Win7 Enterprise machines, some from "close by" and some from another continent. Corporate

Mary, you're currently Professor and Director at the RCSI's CyberPsychology Research Centre. Tell us a bit about your role and what a typical day looks like. I am a CyberPsychologist and Director of the RCSI CyberPsychology Research Centre, I am

On May 15th 2015, Forensic Focus will be attending TDFCon – the Teesside Digital Forensics Conference – at Teesside University, Middlesbrough. If there are any topics you would like us to cover in-depth, or if there are any speakers you

In honor of Thursday’s release of Secure View 4, Susteen will be donating Four free Secure View kits to Law Enforcement agencies in need. Secure View Advanced Mobile Forensic software can acquire data from thousands of phones with industry leading

First Ever Advanced Cross Case Analytics (ACCE) for mobile forensics will debut with Secure View 4! Irvine, Ca. 4/27/2015 With the launch of Secure View 4 this Thursday, April 30th, 2015 new and current users will have access to the

ReclaiMe – the only data recovery vendor providing BTRFS recovery BTRFS is a filesystem from Linux which has several distinctive features such as copy-on-write, checksumming, data scrubbing, and more. ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company integrated a new data recovery algorithm using

Date/Time: Tuesday 5th May, 4pm BST/11am EDT Speakers: Paul Slater, Director of Forensic Solutions EMEA at Nuix and Troy Bettencourt, Sales Engineer NA at Nuix Investigators who are working with legacy digital forensic tools and faced with shrinking budgets often

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. How would you acquire data from a password protected MS Surface Pro? Forum members discuss malware risk mitigation on forensic workstations. How can a split E01 image of

Bruno, you're CISO of the Republic and Canton of Jura in Switzerland. Could you tell us a bit about your job and what a typical day involves? Sure. As Chief Security Officer for cybersecurity I’m involved in ensuring security of

Very important part of HDD functioning is a principle of heads parking while device is turned off. During the decades of HDD development, numerous improvements in this area were seen. These changes positively affected data security, capacity, product lifetime and

I’ve been doing quite a bit of public speaking lately — usually about cybercrime and underground activity — and there’s one question that nearly always comes from the audience: “Why are these fraud Web sites allowed to operate, and not

From May 11-July 1, 2015, (ISC)2 is delivering Live OnLine Training courses to provide expert-level instruction for those interested in attaining CCFP certification (Certified Cyber Forensics Professional). The courses are delivered through the (ISC)2 Learning Center, a centralized platform that

Matt, you're a digital forensics analyst at Sytech. Tell us a bit about your role and what it involves. My role at Sytech predominantly involves the extraction and analysis of embedded devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, satellite navigation systems,

Joe, you presented an internet research tool at DFRWS. Could you briefly outline your presentation for our readers? The presentation offered an early glimpse into a tool that will allow law enforcement officials to conduct online research. Essentially what that

Reviewed by Si Biles, Thinking Security One of the things that I love about being in IT is that it is an ever changing field. I find myself coming across new things daily. This even occasionally applies to my own