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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

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