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Paraben Corporation has announced a new training course for mobile forensic examiners that combines two levels of training into one content heavy course. “We want to make sure we optimize the time existing mobile examiners spend in training. This combined

Michael, you’ve recently completed an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Pretoria. What made you choose this as a field of study? I have been interested in Information Technology and Law for quite some time. I know that

Yesterday, the entire Chatham County Commission visited Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Cyber Forensics Labs, a unit in the campus police department. I too have had the opportunity to tour this unique facility as part of a broader introduction to the

Thousands of the world’s security professionals, mostly of them middle-aged white males, gathered in San Francisco last week for the annual RSA Conference. Traditionally, it’s the time of year vendors hawk their gear in halls containing a perturbing whiff of

What if you were a law enforcement officer with a suspected criminal’s cell phone or laptop, and believed the electronic devices held evidence critical to your case? Or what if, as a parent, you fear your child has been texting

Join this free webinar from Nuix to find out how to deal with large volumes of electronic evidence while balancing business demands including reduced budgets and resources, spiralling case backlogs and ever decreasing timescales. Date: Thursday March 6, 2014Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm

Police may soon have a new way to catch pedophiles who distribute child abuse photos anonymously online. The technology could also help law enforcement agencies in other ways, such as identifying smartphone thieves who take pictures with the stolen gadgets

Recent breaches tell the story: Organizations are not entirely prepared to respond to such incidents. In this video interview recorded on the expo floor of RSA 2014, Craig Carpenter of AccessData discusses the next generation of incident response, specifically: •

Most investigators are familiar with the capabilities of EnCase® Forensic as a tool for investigation of desktops, servers, and hard drives, but did you know that ever since EnCase Forensic v7 was introduced, it has provided support for smartphone operating

Magnet Forensics is pleased to announce that Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.2 has been validated by the United States Defense Cyber Crime Institute (DCCI). DCCI is the research, development and evaluation arm that tests tools tailored to the specific requirements

AccessData, the leader in incident resolution solutions, today announced the InSight™ Platform, a revolutionary cybersecurity system enabling enterprises to adeptly manage the rapidly accelerating volume of data incidents caused by cyber-attacks, mobile risk, GRC (Governance Risk & Compliance) and eDiscovery

Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that

At Forensic Focus, we like to take a look at all the digital forensics news that’s being shared on blogs and websites around the world. We frequently come across sites we’d like to recommend as excellent reads for anyone involved

CTIN14 – Computer Technology Investigators Network is having another Digital Forensics and CyberSecurity conference March 24-26, 2014 www.ctinconference.org : $350 for 3 days of training and education in digital forensics. Speakers include experts and published authors in the field of

Join this free webinar from Nuix to find out how to deal with large volumes of electronic evidence while balancing business demands including reduced budgets and resources, spiralling case backlogs and ever decreasing timescales. Date: Thursday March 6, 2014Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm

Last year, Middle Georgia State College digital forensics students toured the GBI forensics laboratory in Atlanta. And now the college has opened a state-of-the-art laboratory of its own. The college is planning to launch a concentration in digital forensics for