Forensics vendor warns Mac OS X FileVault vulnerable to decryption

Passware, a vendor of forensics tools for recovering data for law enforcement, has issued a warning that its forensics tools can bypass the security of FileVault disk encryption in Mac OS X if the computer is left powered on, recovering

FBI Director Says Cyberthreat Will Surpass Threat From Terrorists

Threats from cyber-espionage, computer crime, and attacks on critical infrastructure will surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified today. Mueller and National Intelligence Director James Clapper, addressing the annual Worldwide Threat

Case studies – what would you find useful?

Following on from an earlier discussion, I’d like to revisit the idea of “case studies”. What would people find useful in a case study, e.g. what subject areas would we like to see covered, what level of expertise, what format

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2012 v.4.0.1 released

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2012 v.4.0.1 introduces support for Touch application analysis for Android and Apple devices; improves examination of SkyFire mobile browser data adding Apple devices support. The new release adds more than 80 Android-based devices, the overall number of

BlackBag Technologies Announces New MacQuisition 2012.R1 Release

BlackBag Technologies, Inc. today announced the release of MacQuisition 2012.R1, a 3-in-1 live data acquisition, targeted data collection, and forensic imaging tool. New features include: * Targeted File Collection – Quickly triage, select, and acquire targeted files, folders, or entire

Irish business with tools to dig out digital evidence

Computer forensics start-up Cernam is to launch its first product later this month, a tool for gathering legally admissible digital evidence from online sources such as Facebook, blogs and message boards. The Dublin company sees a gap in the market

JADsoftware announces new IEF Triage product

JADsoftware Inc. has announced IEF Triage, a new edition to its computer forensics solution, Internet Evidence Finder (IEF). IEF can search for evidence within a number of applications including: social networking, IM chats, webmail, browsers, and p2p artifacts. IEF Triage

Harry Onderwater

A few days ago the Dutch forensics community – indeed, the wider forensics community – lost one of its founding fathers, Harry Onderwater. Having worked for many years for the Dutch police in Amsterdam, Harry then moved to the Centrale

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. Releases MacForensicsLab 4.0

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. announces the immediate availability of the latest version of their powerful computer forensic suite, MacForensicsLab 4.0. The new version brings a streamlined interface and many other improvements to make examinations quicker and more accurate than ever before.SubRosaSoft.com Inc.

AACC Digital Forensics Team Hacks Their Way to First Place

The cyber-forensics team at Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) took top honors among community colleges in a competition that pitted them against the best teams in the nation, and 52 other countries. The team consisted of AACC students from all

Computer crimes meet their match with digital forensics investigator

Bombs, sex crimes, homicides, suicides, fraud and burglary. Such cases are where the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office new digital forensics investigator comes into play. To keep up with advances in digital technology and communication — and the criminals who use

EviGator Digital Forensic release LISTView PRO

EviGator Digital Forensic announces LISTView PRO, a tool for the examination of XML and binary property list (PLIST) files. Property list files are used extensively on computers running Mac OS, iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch. LISTView PRO allows examiners

Former Cop Now Busts Bad Guys Digitally

Before RCMP Sergeant Jeff Cameron left his Edmonton office on Friday, Dec. 16, he took a laptop seized in a drug bust, hooked it up to his computer and clicked “run” on digital forensics software created in Waterloo, Ont. While

SC Suite v4.5 Released.

A new version of SC Suite is available. What’s new: – New tool added, WMDB Extractor for CurrentDatabase_372 v1.0, reads the Windows Media Player database from Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7, exports to CSV and HTML… – Various

Brit PhD student excels in Pentagon digi-forensics challenge

A computer science student from Lancaster University has become the UK winner of the digital forensics challenge, a global competition designed and hosted by the US Department of Defense. Christopher Richardson (AKA Ikarus) came first in the UK and ninth

Belkasoft releases Evidence Center 2012

Belkasoft has released Evidence Center 2012, a tool which help forensic investigators and security specialists to easily locate and extract Internet evidence such as chats, browser and email info, social network trails, pictures and videos. The product supports multiple analysis