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By Jared Stern Fingerprinting has been used for years to determine the individuality of a person. But, newer technology allows investigators to capture a person’s voice, a so-called “voiceprint.” Sometimes, a person’s voice is the only clue that police and

On 8 April, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), joined forces with the Dutch authorities and the FBI, and U.S-based representatives at the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force- International Cyber Crime Coordination Cell

Martin, you've been demonstrating Visual JPEG at DFRWS. Could you tell us about the concept behind it, and how you came up with the idea? It’s a tool to make life easier for people examining files. The background of this

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) held in Dublin from the 23rd – 26th of March 2015. Over the next few weeks Forensic Focus will also be bringing

Oxygen Forensics releases a major update to its flagship mobile forensic solution, Oxygen Forensic® Suite. New version introduces industry-first analysis of WhatsApp voice calls parsing, recovers deleted entries directly in each application section, displays messages in convenient conversion view, imports

A recording of the recent (ISC)2 webinar “Being Your Own Expert Witness” is now online here. With data breaches and data leakage incidents becoming front page news, cyber investigations are taking on more importance within organizations. This calls for a

ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company was founded in 2009 in Russia, Volgograd. The company’s first product was ReclaiMe File Recovery software, made as simple as possible. Then the company released ReclaiMe Free RAID recovery software to recover RAID configurations. The next

Paul, you're currently conducting research into continued professional development in digital forensics for your Master's degree. Could you outline your project for our readers? My area for the dissertation is to look at continued development, specifically with digital forensics practitioners,

In this article I want to discuss how we can recover deleted records from an SQLite database, or rather how we can recover all records and distinguish between those that are live in the DB and those that are found

At DFRWS yesterday you gave a talk about Tor forensics on Windows. Could you briefly outline some of the main challenges associated with Tor forensics for our readers? I think that nowadays there are new challenges related to encryption, anonymity

British Airways’ air-miles accounts, the coding site GitHub and the work chat service Slack have all been hit in the latest wave of cyber-attacks. The firms have all notified their users of the incidents, which varied in approach and do

Arnim, we caught up with you last year about Uforia. Could you tell us a bit about what's been happening with the project since then? Well, what we had in Amsterdam was more of a proof of concept really, to

Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery software for computer forensics, law enforcement organizations, government agencies, and private investigators, announces version 2 of its flagship encrypted electronic evidence discovery product – Passware Kit Forensic 2015.

Nikola, please tell us about HddSurgery. What first gave you the idea to develop tools for data recovery and computer forensics? I would not call it an idea, it was more a need for such tools. We have data recovery

When it comes to incident response, the quick collection and triage of digital devices is crucial to identify where evidence may be contained. This expedites device processing and evidence identification to ultimately reduce case backlogs. AccessData’s Ultimate Toolkit® (UTK®) include

Date: March 26, 2015Time: 1:00pm EST (US) / 5:00pm GMT (UK)Duration: 60-75 minutesPresenters: Spencer Wilcox, CISSP, Excelon; Herbert Joe, Certified Forensics Consultant, Yonovitz & Joe, LLP; Andrew Neal, TransPerfect With data breaches and data leakage incidents becoming front page news,