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DFRWS USA has a long history of being the foremost digital forensics research venue and has decided to hold a sister conference to bring the same opportunities to Europe. The first annual DFRWS EU conference will be held from May

Apple recently released the newest version of their desktop operating system, Mac OS X Mavericks. As a free update to all supported Apple desktops and laptops, a wide adoption rate was expected, and in fact it was estimated that within

Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, and ADF Solutions, the market leader in media exploitation and digital forensic triage tools, today announced they have formed a technology, sales and marketing partnership to combine their strengths in digital forensic

Leading search engine companies Google and Microsoft have agreed measures to make it harder to find child abuse images online. As many as 100,000 search terms will now return no results that find illegal material, and will trigger warnings that

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forumsIs it possible to establish when an image was viewed in Firefox? A guitar pick and a sharp blade is all you need to open a NAS drive. Forum

In an earlier article Jad Saliba of Magnet Forensics talked about Bitcoin, Tor and some of the hidden websites only accessible via Tor, such as Silk Road, which was shut down by the FBI on October 1st. Well, just over

Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, today announced it has appointed Stuart Clarke as Director of Investigation Services. Clarke will be responsible globally for developing the Nuix Investigator product suite and collaborating with customers and partners to ensure

There has been a lot of buzz around Tor, Bitcoin, and the so-called “dark web” (or “deep web”) since the FBI shut down the underground website “Silk Road” on Oct 1st. As many of you already know, Tor is a

According to recently released statistics from ICAC, an agency whose aim is to make the internet safer for children, only 2% of reported child protection cases are investigated in the United States each year. Often the media seize every opportunity

Oxygen Forensics announces the availability of a new edition of Oxygen Forensic Suite 2013. The Passware Edition of the company’s flagship mobile forensic product delivers investigators a complete evidence discovery solution providing integrated recovery of passwords protecting encrypted files discovered

Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, today announced it has appointed Rob Attoe as Senior Vice President of Investigations Training and Services. United States-based Attoe will be in charge of building and delivering training course content for Nuix

Magnet Forensics has released the Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) Logical Evidence File Creator for EnCase v7. The IEF Logical Evidence File (LEF) Creator is an EnScript designed to create an LEF from a pre-existing IEF case folder. The goal of

by Hannu Visti Creating test material for computer forensic teaching or tool testing purposes has been a known problem. I encountered the issue in my studies of Computer Forensics at the University of Westminster. We were assigned a task to

The level of sexual abuse and violence carried out on children whose suffering is posted on the internet “seems to be getting worse”, [UK] MPs have heard. Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre director Peter Davies said victims appeared “to

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums Forum user EricZimmerman shares some imager speed test results. What are ‘advanced forensics concepts‘ within the digital forensics realm? Forum users discuss digital evidence storage ideas. Forum member

There has been increased coverage of cyber bullying in the media recently. How large a problem is cyber bullying? Is it really growing as fast as the media seem to suggest? When the tragic deaths of young people such as