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Recognizing the increased need for training options for remote learners, Guidance Software has expanded our online learning offerings. We’ve added a live, Internet streaming option for students who wish to attend our classes without making the trip to our classrooms.

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 7am PT / 10am ET / 2pm GMTDuration: 60 minutesPresenter: Tatiana Pankova, Oxygen Forensics This free webinar, hosted by Tatiana Pankova of Oxygen Forensics, aims to provide a brief but comprehensive overview of Oxygen Forensic

Over the last few years, we have seen a massive shift in the mobile communications market. Smartphones have taken over the world, and mobile users spend the majority of time on their devices emailing, browsing the web, using social media

In early December 2008, Clifford Lambert, a retired Los Angeles art dealer, received a call from a New York estate lawyer with news that surely made his 74-year-old heart leap. Lambert was due to inherit some valuable artwork, the man

While shellbags have been available since Windows XP, they have only recently become a popular artifact as examiners are beginning to realize their potential value to an investigation. In a nutshell, shellbags help track views, sizes and positions of a

In June this year, Nuix launched Nuix Web Review and Analytics, a powerful web application that makes evidence securely and conveniently available using any modern web browser. This enables organizations to provide secure and compartmentalized access to case data for

How long has it been since you’ve tried Device Seizure? With over 12 years of development exclusively as a forensic tool, the latest version of Device Seizure goes head-to-head with any tool available. We know you will love the new

Mobile forensics has changed the methodology when it comes to offender profiling. The frequent use of mobile devices has provided investigators with another source for profiling criminal suspects, as well as an insight into their habits and personalities. This is

Prefetch files are great artifacts for forensic investigators trying to analyze applications that have been run on a system. Windows creates a prefetch file when an application is run from a particular location for the very first time. This is

One researcher digs into Windows, discovers a flaw (and a fix), and receives $100,000 from Microsoft. Another, threatened with prosecution for alleged hacking, becomes despondent and takes his own life. At the Black Hat 2014 conference, an all-star panel discussed

Oxygen Forensics announces the release of Oxygen Forensic® Passware® Analyst, a new mobile forensic tool integrating Oxygen’s award-winning acquisition and analytic tools with Passware’s password recovery and data extraction. The new tool integrates mobile acquisition, data extraction, password recovery and

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. A forum member unearths a very old hard drive; how can it be analysed? Is it possible to retrieve IP information by logging into a Hotmail account? Forum

LNK files are excellent artifacts for forensic investigators who are trying to find files that may no longer exist on the system they’re examining. The files might have been wiped or deleted, stored on a USB or network share, so

Emlyn, you’re currently Course Leader in Computer Forensics, Security & Ethical Hacking at Leeds Metropolitan University. Could you tell us more about the role and how you entered academia? As course leader it is my responsibility to maintain a healthy

Whether you’re a corporate examiner working an intellectual property theft, or a law enforcement investigator searching for illicit images, most forensic examiners have investigated the USB device history of a computer. There are five key pieces of information that need

Developers of software used to access Tor – an otherwise hard-to-reach part of the internet – have disclosed that an attack on the network may have unmasked users for five months. The Tor Project said that it believed the assault