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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

Since becoming available in Windows Vista, volume shadow copies have been a valuable resource for forensic investigators when examining a Windows PC. Volume shadow copy runs as a service (volume shadow service) that creates and maintains multiple historical snapshots of

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members explain live RAM capturing tools and why they are relevant to forensic investigations. What is the best method of contemporaneous note-taking during investigations? A discussion about

Oxygen Forensics has updated its flagship mobile evidence discovery solution, Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014, adding forensic analysis support for BlackBerry 10 backups. The new release enables investigators to seamlessly process encrypted BlackBerry 10 backups, extract and analyze information contained in

Nigel, you’re currently a Lecturer in Computing at Letterkenny Institute of Technology. Could you tell us more about the role and what prompted you to enter academia? I was always interested in academia from a very early age – I

One of the big focuses in Magnet Forensics‘ Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.3 was adding hashing support for pictures and making it easy for investigators to import hash lists that can be used during searches to alert you of hash

Two teams of students from Louisiana Tech University’s College of Engineering and Science have placed in the top 10 of the 2013 Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) Digital Forensics Challenge. James Poore, Nathan Wallace and Stanislav Ponomarev comprised

It’s a unit that’s been around since 2008.It started with two donated computers. The Internet Crimes Against Children or ICAC has arrested almost 100 accused predators hiding behind computer screens. Detective Dan Barry who has been in the unit since

Yesterday, the 11th of February 2014, was the eleventh annual ‘Safer Internet Day’, a time when the general public, and particularly those who care for children and other vulnerable people, can learn how to stay safe online. What is Safer