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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

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