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The graduate employment market continues to be highly competitive. What advice would you give to final year digital forensics students to help them stand out from the crowd? Don’t just focus on the degree. Students need to engage more in

With a strong commitment to helping thousands of its customers in the world’s top law enforcement, military, government and corporate organizations retrieve Internet-related communications from a broad range of artifacts, Magnet Forensics (formerly JADsoftware) has unveiled v5.6 of its industry-leading

For a number of years digital forensics has referred to ‘the application of computer investigation and analysis techniques to gather evidence suitable for presentation in a court of law’. While collecting this digital evidence, to be used retrospectively in subsequent

Paraben's Forensic Innovations Conference is being held in Park City, Utah November 3-6. Join us for bootcamps, lectures, and labs from the industry’s top experts and learn the latest innovations in digital forensics. Whether you are just getting started in

Sincere apologies to anyone having difficulty connecting to the Meetingburner service to view the Windows 8 Forensics presentation – please try the following URL on YouTube instead: http://youtu.be/uhCooEz9FQs Josh is available in the webinars forum to answer any questions. Please

There are currently just over 30 places left before we reach our maximum of 1000 attendees for Josh Brunty’s Windows 8 Forensics webinar. Please register now at http://forensicfocus.enterthemeeting.com/m/JXI8IWVX if you wish to attend. Date: TodayTime: 11AM EDT US / 4PM

JADsoftware, the company behind the industry-leading digital forensics product Internet Evidence Finder (IEF), announced on Monday that they have re-launched the company under a new name – Magnet Forensics Inc. “A lot has changed since I launched JADsoftware and first

The many companies that sell software for computer forensics have developed products for analysing satellite navigators. Police high tech crime units and independent laboratories now use this software on an industrial scale. Computer technicians conduct the analyses. This is home

When the authors first published this paper, their intentions were to develop a comprehensive guide to digital forensic timelines in order to consolidate the many fragmented sources of information concerning this topic. What they discovered, however, was that quality references

Take a first look at Windows 8 forensics in a webinar presented by Josh Brunty, Assistant Professor of Digital Forensics at Marshall University. Learn about the changes in Windows 8 which forensic examiners should be aware of before this new

Edinburgh Napier University is launching a new part-time MSc in Advanced Security and Cybercrime. Aimed at professionals already working in computer security, the master’s course will arm students with the skills to combat a wide range of threats including phishing

Monday’s Technology Review carries a glowing tribute to Apple iPhone security according to its author, Simson Garfinkel, a contributing editor who works in computer forensics and is highly regarded as a leader in digital forensics. He says Apple has passed

As forensic examiners, some of the last things we want to hear are “encryption” and “enabled” in the same sentence, however that’s what has been happening with the current line of Android devices. Starting with Android 3.0, devices have been

Bright Forensics, the UK based company best known for Live Forensics Courses (delivered by Nick Furneaux), is delighted to announce a new partnership with BlackBag Technologies of San Jose, CA. Bright will carry the full range of Mac Forensics solutions

ATC-NY’s new forensics tool – Mem Marshal™ 1.0 – is a user-friendly, automated memory analysis system that assists and automates computer forensic investigations of volatile memory (RAM) images. Mem Marshal enables computer forensic investigators to analyze and effectively make use

As digital forensic practitioners, we are faced regularly with users utilizing the internet to swop and download copyrighted and contraband material. Peer to peer (P2P) applications are commonly used for this purpose, and like any software application, they are ever