DFRWS Europe 2014 Annual Conference – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) held in Amsterdam from the 7th – 9th of May; over the next few weeks we will also be bringing you a

Digital Forensics: A Billion-Dollar Market in the Making

Interview with Dr. Ragib Hasan, researcher and director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Secure and Trustworthy computing lab Why is the digital forensics industry poised to be the next billion-dollar market? The industry is going to expand dramatically

Interview with Rob Attoe, Senior Vice President, Nuix

Rob, last year you took up the position of Senior Vice President of Investigations Training and Services at Nuix – could you tell us more about the role? Even though I’ve been at Nuix for seven months now, it still

Interview with Adam Belsher, CEO, Magnet Forensics

Adam, as the CEO of Magnet Forensics, can you give us a brief overview of your products and solutions? Our mission is to help forensic investigators and security analysts “bring the truth to light” by uncovering and making sense of

Glasgow man held after worldwide crackdown on computer crime

FBI agents and Europol — the European Union’s law enforcement agency — arrested 80 people in a series of raids. The massive operation targeted the alleged use of Blackshades software, which can remotely control people’s computers and webcams. A Police

Interview with Yuval Ben Moshe, Forensics Technical Director, Cellebrite

Yuval, could you start by telling us more about your role at Cellebrite? At Cellebrite, we firmly believe in maintaining very open communication channels with the global community of forensics specialists. Through these, we deliver the latest developments and information,

Interview with Andrew Krauze, Managing Director, CCL

Andrew, CCL has partnered with Fujitsu to create forensic workstations. Could you tell us more about the products and what differentiates them from other workstations? CCL came across the original Fujitsu machine by accident; it was initially built as a

Interview with Jim Kent, CEO EMEA, Nuix

Jim, Nuix seems to be growing quickly in terms of products, services and personnel. Can you tell us about some of those changes since we last spoke a year ago? It has felt like a really short 12 months. In

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss RAID and JBOD imaging. What is the quickest forensic imaging tool? Chime in on the forum. File archiving equipment for small forensics labs – what

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014 Adds Support for BlackBerry 10 Communication Apps

Oxygen Forensics updates its flagship mobile evidence discovery solution, Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014, greatly extending support for user communications occurring in popular social networks and communication applications. In addition to support for many new communication apps, the new release introduces

When to call a computer forensics expert in civil litigation

The situations when a company usually needs a computer forensics analyst involve people as much as computers. Well before a lawsuit is filed, you must often make decisions on how to deal with situations involving employees. Notification from a competitor