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In June 2009, someone had silently unleashed a sophisticated and destructive digital worm that had been slithering its way through computers in Iran with just one aim — to sabotage the country’s uranium enrichment program and prevent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Police are investigating evidence that a News International executive may have deleted millions of emails from an internal archive, in an apparent attempt to obstruct Scotland Yard’s inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal. The archive is believed to have reached back

Dropbox for files, Google for mail, iCloud for well, everything. Average citizens have all kinds of options for storing their information in the cloud. Now, spies want in. Soon, our nation’s secrets may take on a slightly more nebulous form.

"The market has been up and down in recent years, which has been characterised by the state of the wider economy. With the government cuts in public spending, there has been much uncertainty within the public sector, which has resulted

AccessData has announced the opening of a new office, as well as a new hosting facility, in London to meet the needs of a growing community of e-discovery, computer forensics and incident response clients in the UK and EU. The

Dropbox Reader is a set of Python scripts for forensic investigators. The scripts provide investigators with information about a particular Dropbox user’s account and activities, such as the registration e-mail, Dropbox identifier and most recently changed files. Dropbox Reader was

Computer forensic investigations aren’t just fodder for popular crime scene television shows. As federal computing environments expand and become more complex, and the numbers of attacks on government systems soar, it is increasingly critical for agency managers to understand how

Logicube has announced two new additions to its line of premier forensic data capture solutions. The Talon® Enhanced forensic data capture solution and the CellXtract™ data extraction solution for mobile devices. The Talon Enhanced provides fast data capture at over

viaForensics has announced the release of viaExtract – Android Logical, a new analysis and reporting application for Android devices. This analysis and reporting tool expands on viaForensics’ AFLogical acquisition tool used by law enforcement. The application is self-contained in a

A piece of software developed by a small Milton Keynes IT company has been taken up by one of the biggest computer companies in the world. Evidence Talks, based in Crownhill, has developed forensic intelligence software called SPEKTOR which can

Three students at the College of Information Technology of Zayed University (ZU) last week launched a project that aims to act as digital forensics e-learning platform. The project is called ‘Jenaei’, an Arabic word that translates into English as ‘forensics’,

Paraben Corporation has announced the release of the Phone Recovery Stick. Once plugged in to a computer, users simply plug their Android phone in and run the program. It automatically downloads user data such as call logs, pictures, address books,

The Digital Forensics Certification Board (www.dfcb.org) has re-opened the application process for the DFCP and DFCA certifications. Founded in 2004, the Digital Forensics Certification Board is a member-driven, non-profit, vendor independent organization of the National Center for Forensic Science, sponsored

reviewed by by Karlo Arozqueta "Just about every individual who is immersed in the Information Technology field has either personally experienced it, or knows someone who has: The hard drive “click of death”. For most, this sound is the start

Passware, Inc., has announced a partnership with Guidance Software, Inc. to expand encrypted evidence discovery and analysis in the upcoming release of EnCase v7. “As encrypted electronic evidence becomes more common in computer forensics, it is hard to overestimate the

It’s common for companies to learn that breaches are more serious than first thought. That’s what happens as security experts are brought in and the forensic investigation progresses. Sony just had the misfortune of having its investigation scrutinized, said Rob