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In this Help Net Security interview, Gareth Dance, Conference Director, EMEA, SANS Institute, talks about SANS Forensics Prague 2012. SANS Forensics Prague 2012 is a technically intense event. What can attendees expect? What type of existing knowledge is necessary in

New academic research finds that the amount the UK spends on cyber crime precautions would be better spent on policing The UK economy spends far more on cyber crime precautions such as antivirus software than it loses to cyber crime,

I've been teaching at UNO since 1994. I've been "hacking" (in the positive since of the word) since I was about 13–that's 35 years ago, although I don't really feel that old. Yet. I've always been interested in operating systems

People who download child abuse images pose a risk of committing sex attacks on children, says a specialist police child protection unit. The UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre wants police to prioritise those caught with such images,

Epiq Systems, Inc. has released a new research report focused on eDiscovery readiness of U.S. and European companies. The report, entitled “When the Regulator Calls,” is based on a survey of more than 2,000 corporations across sectors including aerospace, banking

The creators of the Flame malware have sent a “suicide” command that removes it from some infected computers. Security firm Symantec caught the command using booby-trapped computers set up to watch Flame’s actions. The “suicide” command was “designed to completely

A mother has won court backing to force Facebook to reveal the identities of cyberbullies who targeted her with a string of abusive messages on the website. Nicola Brookes, 45, was granted a high court order after receiving “vicious and

The Michigan Supreme Court won’t intervene in an Oakland County case of a man charged with getting access to his estranged wife’s email but conservative and liberal justices believe lawmakers should consider fine-tuning the law. Leon Walker was charged with

The Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB) has announced that its next application deadline for its Digital Forensics Certified Practitioner (DFCP) designation is June 1, 2012. The DFCB currently accepts applications four times a year. To obtain detailed certification information and

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SANS is launching its first dedicated digital forensics training event in Prague in October offering a full immersion experience over a 7 day event combining leading experts’ presentations and four in-depth IT forensics courses. The new format will kick-off 7

Armenia handed down its first computer crime sentence on Tuesday with punishment of the mastermind behind the Bredolab botnet. A district court sentenced 27-year-old Georgy Avanesov, a Russian citizen of Armenian descent, to four years in prison on charges of

Mention eDiscovery (or electronic discovery) in the litigation marketplace and you will hear a lot of oaning and groaning from judges and attorneys alike; the process has, without doubt, significantly added to the cost of litigation, as well as being

Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing is to be responsible for the Scottish Government’s new plan to improve cyber security. The announcement came at the eCrime Scotland summit in Edinburgh. Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill told delegates it was vital to tackle the

Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) from JADsoftware now supports the recovery of evidence from Cloud services. IEF v5.5 supports the recovery of cloud-based evidence from computer hard drives and live memory. Initial support includes popular cloud storage services Dropbox, Google Docs,

Updates to MFT Stampede and MFT Hex Chomper to include more available time and date types, and a re-write of MFT Salt in Python. MFT Stampede is a time stamp conversion tool, which will try and convert the entered value