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by Stuart Clarke, 7Safe "The EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) is a widely accepted workflow, which guides those involved in eDiscovery. Typically, the identification and collection phases see email and common office documents harvested, but as technology moves forward is

Posted by Brian K. Glass "While researching FTK 3X and Oracle, you just recently discovered that the best configuration of your Oracle database would be on a solid state drive (SSD). Solid state drives give the maximum level of performance

Posted by forens245 "Anonymous, a word which Merriam-Webster describes as: of unknown authorship or origin, not named or identified, or lacking individuality, distinction, or recognizability. There are some in this world that wish to remain anonymous, not named or identified.

CCL-Forensics has developed “dunk!”, a software utility which parses cookie files, and presents the investigator with the data they contain. A free trial version of dunk! is available at www.ccl-forensics.com/dunk which gives complete functionality for a limited time. Thereafter licences

Some of the secret technologies created at the government’s giant eavesdropping centre GCHQ are to be offered to private industry as part of new cyber security strategy being unveiled by ministers on Friday. The idea is likely to be one

The French Gendarmerie Nationale has equipped its national N-TECH force with Cellebrite’s Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for its mobile forensic investigations. The Gendarmerie Nationale, in charge of public safety in France, is using the UFED to extract information from

Paraben is pleased to announce the release of P2 Commander v2.0. Here are some feature highlights: * New memory dump parser* Added support for Exchange 2010 (.EDB)* Added support for Chrome history, cookies, auto fill items, keywords, and login analysis*

Control-F will be running another of its 3 day Flasher Box Forensics training courses on 17-19th January at Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire (UK). With only 4 places remaining – email [email protected] or phone +44(0)20 8133 8750 to secure a seat…This 3

A simple app to decode the data held within Google Analytics Cookies. The data can be identified by “__UTM” starting each section. The data holds: records, the number of visits to a website, the first, last and current visit dates;

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A new version of SC Suite is available, version 4.4 now includes more tools to analyse and extract information from a variety of file types and utilities to assist in every day tasks. Continuing user feedback has resulted in the

The Digital Forensics Certification Board (DFCB) has announced that its next application deadline for its Digital Forensics Certified Practitioner (DFCP) designation is December 2, 2011. The DFCB currently accepts applications four times a year. To obtain detailed certification information and

An independent survey amongst 1,000 people in the UK to gauge attitudes about the use of mobile forensic technology shows that the majority of the British public are comfortable with police using the latest forensic technology to help solve crimes.

A new version of SQLite Forensic Reporter, Universal SQLite database examination tool is now available, Version 1.2 includes more features to analyse, extract and report on information from any SQLite database (not corrupted or encrypted). Useful for Computer & Phone

Backbone Security has announced the release of Version 3.11 of the Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) which now contains 1,000 steganography applications…Developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC), SAFDB is the world’s largest commercially available hash set exclusive

The 10th International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking will be held Oct. 23-26, 2011 at the ACH Casino Resort, Atlantic City. The event, organized by NJIT Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Yun-Qing Shi, is a forum for researchers and