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HEA STEM: Teaching Computer Forensics is the 8th workshop on Teaching Forensics, the last 4 of which have been held at Sunderland. The workshops have been successful at bringing academics together to discuss the particular challenges in teaching computer forensics,

Latest version of IEF uniquely addresses the challenge of identifying, recovering and analyzing mobile chat data. Magnet Forensics, the global leader in the development of digital forensic software for the recovery and analysis of Internet evidence from computers, smartphones and

John Huperetes is a sub-contractor to the US Department of Defense and any views herein do not represent those of his contractor or of the DoD. John, please tell us about your current role. I am contracted to be “senior

Arsenal Image Mounter is now available on GitHub under a dual license. Arsenal Imager Mounter is the image mounter/physical disk driver used by Registry Recon to mount forensic images as physical disks and includes a complete virtual SCSI adapter which

Your research focuses on designing intelligent systems for the purpose of crime investigation. How did you become interested in these topics? After joining the Computer Security team at Concordia in 2007, I had a lot of opportunities to interact with

How much does having a disability affect working in forensics? Chime in on the forum. Are Facebook private messages retrievable? Forum members discuss the best way to clean flash drives. To triage or not to triage? That is the question.

Towards the end of August, I was part of the team who were offered to help out and participate at an exciting event held at Glasgow Caledonian University. The event ran over five days with each day varied in content

How Does Integration Help You as an Investigator? Let’s imagine you have been assigned to investigate a case involving an employee who is suspected of posting threatening comments on a co-worker’s Facebook account (this could either be an internal employee

You’re an active member of the Forensic Focus forums. How did you become interested in digital forensics? My interests are oriented towards OS booting, filesystems and data recovery. These fields are of course closely linked to digital forensics. I was

A wireless Access Point (AP) is a device that allows wireless devices to connect to internet using Wi-Fi. With the remarkable increase in number of wireless devices the number of APs has also increased drastically to serve the Wi-Fi needs

This blog post is the final in a three part series that discusses the privacy modes of the three major web browsers and what implications they have on digital forensics. You can see the original post for Internet Explorer here,

This study investigated whether deviant pornography use followed a Guttman-like progression in that a person transitions from being a nondeviant to deviant pornography user. In order to observe this progression, 630 respondents from Survey Sampling International’s (SSI) panel Internet sample

A geo-tagged image is an image which holds geographical identification metadata. This data consists of latitude and longitude co-ordinates (sometimes altitude also). Though there are some extremely powerful tools available for extracting geo-tag information from geo-tagged images but the insight

If you are like many digital investigators, you’ve heard about the Autopsy™ digital forensics tool and associate it with a course that used Linux to analyze a device. Or, maybe you associate it with a book that made references to

Between the ongoing revelations about NSA surveillance and the usual drumbeat of security warnings about everything from Android smartphones to cars, it’s a good time for a primer on what’s actually going on. This slim volume — in an All

Megan Meier was just twelve years old when the events began that would ultimately lead to her death. Like many teenagers, Megan had accounts on common social networks, including MySpace, where she first met “Josh Evans”. Ostensibly a sixteen-year old