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MFT Runtime – Following recent requests for CPS, this software quickly totals up the runtime of either individual video clips or a collection of video clips held in recursive folders. Exports to a detailed report. MFT PictureBox – Will recursively

The BackTrack Dev team has worked in the past months on BackTrack 5, code name “revolution”. It was released to the public on May 10th. This new revision has been built from scratch, and boasts several major improvements over all

Britain’s largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups. The Metropolitan police has bought Geotime, a security programme used by

Belkasoft has recently released a free Encase integration script which allows users to import Instant Messenger chats, extracted by Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer, directly to an Encase case. For further information see here.

The nominees for the Forensic 4cast Awards are now online at http://www.forensic4cast.com/2011/05/forensic-4cast-awards-meet-the-nominees/ Please take some time to review the nominees and place your votes. The awards ceremony will be taking place during the SANS Forensic Summit in Austin, Texas on

The Home Office’s chief scientific adviser was not consulted over the closure of the UK Forensic Science Service (FSS), it has emerged. Bernard Silverman said he was informed in advance but not consulted “as such”. Dr Silverman was speaking at

A new version of SC Suite is available, version 4.2 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

Increasingly, chains of evidence include software steps. It’s not just the RIAA suing people – and getting it wrong – based on automatic systems to detect and identify file sharers. It’s forensic programs used to collect and analyze data from

Over the past few years, prosecutors have tried to stretch the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in troubling ways through cases like United States v. Drew. This week, a federal appeals court rebuffed another attempt to expand the CFAA,

WetStone announces the release of T.A.P.S.™ (Trait Analytical Profiling Search). This technology was developed under an NIJ funded grant to support state and local law enforcement. WetStone and NIJ have been working on this research for over 2 years. The

New computer software set to be used by Notts police will boost efforts to catch internet paedophiles. The Triage Investigator will allow specialist officers to get hold of logs from online chat rooms quicker – and get e-mail contact details

Passware, Inc. has announced its Passware Kit Forensic is the first commercial software to harness the power of cloud computing to accelerate password recovery. “Some types of encryption are so secure that without expensive hardware accelerators, it becomes literally impossible

Radio Tactics has received the runner-up prize in this year’s Equipment Technology and Innovation (“ETI”) Awards. The ETI Awards were launched six years ago by HOSDB and the Association of Police and Public Security Suppliers (“APPSS”), which is now part

Research analysts at CCL-Forensics have forensically recovered vital internet history data from ‘cookies’ stored within a smartphone, which would not have been retrieved and interpreted using ‘standard’ forensic tools…In particular, cookies placed by the Google Analytics service yielded crucial evidence.

Online adverts could soon start stalking you. A new way of working out where you are by looking at your internet connection could pin down your current location to within a few hundred metres. Similar techniques are already in use,

Britain’s biggest ever computer crime investigation, Operation Ore, was flawed by a catalogue of “discrepancies, errors and uncertainties”, disclosed reports of two national police conferences seen by The Register reveal. The police memoranda show that within months of the operation