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Non-profit certification body (ISC)² is preparing to launch what it believes is the world’s first qualification designed to assess the skill set of experienced digital forensics professionals. The Certified Cyber Forensics Professional (CCFP) will be launched in 25 September in

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced the formation of a new working group that will closely examine incident handling and forensics in cloud environments. The CSA is a not-for-profit organisation tasked with promoting the use of best practices for providing

Sometimes, when a computer forensics expert is dissecting a suspect’s computer, the most important question to answer is this: “Am I looking at the original hard-drive, with all of its incriminating evidence, or has that drive been swapped out surreptitiously

Building on our commitment to assist thousands of customers, in the world’s top law enforcement, military, government and corporate organizations, recover data from a broad range of Internet-related communications, Magnet Forensics has launched a new edition of its industry-leading forensic

Until very recently, it was a standard practice for European law enforcement agencies to approach running computers with a “pull-the-plug” attitude without recognizing the amount of evidence lost with the content of the computer’s volatile memory. While certain information never

Nuix has appointed Paul Slater as Director of Forensic Solutions. Slater brings to the role nearly 20 years’ experience in investigations, digital forensics and electronic disclosure as a police officer and consultant. Slater started his career in forensic technology as

A new webinar recorded by Lance Mueller of Magnet Forensics introducing Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) Advanced Edition v6.1 can now be viewed here. Lance gives a hands-on demonstration of how to recover Internet evidence, including deleted data, from iOS &

AccessData announces the release of Forensic Toolkit (FTK) 5. With this major release, AccessData brings an even faster and more comprehensive FTK capable of exposing more data in less time. FTK 5 includes data visualization and explicit image detection (EID)

Lance Mueller (Magnet Forensics) recently attended CEIC in Orlando, Florida and had the opportunity to meet David Cowen from G-C Partners, LLC. It was great to finally put a face to a name that he has known for some time

The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program

Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, and Cellebrite, a global provider of mobile data extraction, decoding and analysis solutions, announced they have formed a technology partnership to leverage their complementary strengths in mobile forensics, investigation and eDiscovery. The

Over the past year we have been asked many times if we would consider adding support for recovery of Internet related artifacts on mobile devices. After a great deal of research and development, we are pleased to announce that IEF

Forensic Focus is seeking a part-time editorial assistant to help with various aspects of running the site (with a particular focus on planning and adding new content). The role is likely to involve tasks such as identifying/contacting potential interviewees, writing

DFLabs, a leading provider of IT GRC and Digital Data Breach Investigations technologies and services, today announced the release of v3.0 of DFLabs PTK Computer Forensic software. PTK Forensics is an advanced computer forensic framework based on command line tools

Nuix has launched two new products: a Nuix Investigator bundle and Nuix Investigator Lab. Both incorporate Nuix’s powerful, reliable data collection, processing and investigation capabilities and are available at heavily reduced pricing for law enforcement and government investigative agencies in

Logicube Inc., has announced the launch of a new forensic imaging solution, the Forensic Falcon. This new addition features imaging speeds of 20GB/min, images and verifies from 4 source drives to 5 destination drives and allows users to image to