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Sergey Aleynikov, 40, was found guilty in the Southern District of New York on one count of stealing trade secrets and one count of transporting stolen property. Authorities said Aleynikov stole “hundreds of thousands of lines” of source code from

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. announces the immediate availability of MacForensicsLab Web Agent 1.0, an automated website crawler designed to hunt CP, with a built-in skin tone analyzer to identify images of evidentiary value…MacForensicsLab Web Agent is designed for ease of use and

This has already been online for about a month but it’s well worth a listen – Episode 33 of the Forensic 4Cast is available here. "Today we talk about the increased risk of cyber-terrorism and the possibility of all out

Radio Tactics Ltd has updated Athena – a frontline intelligence gathering platform that offers rapid and effective data acquisition from mobile devices in high pressure situations – enabling users to carry out physical as well as logical data extractions. Athena

Results from the 2010 New Zealand Computer Crime and Security Survey have been released, noting an overall reduction in security incidents and costs per organisation. The Survey, funded by InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc), highlights a range of trends, including

The Court of Appeal has rejected claims that some individuals prosecuted under Operation Ore for incitement to distribute indecent photographs were themselves the victims of credit card fraud. Operation Ore was a major, long-running investigation by UK police into individuals

A number of sample search warrants and affidavits is now available at http://www.forensicfocus.com/search-warrants (many thanks to the Forensic Focus member who submitted them). Please consider submitting similar sample documents for your own jurisdiction to act as examples for other investigators.

LDM Global today announced the results of its 2010 eDiscovery survey, indicating heightened concern across the US and EU regarding the balance of finding responsive data in large volumes of ESI set against managing increasing budgetary constraints. The company asked

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. has announced MacForensicsLab Social Agent™ 1.0. Social Agent can scan Macs running the Apple Safari® web browser for evidence of social network activity and can identify social networking web pages visited by the suspect. The initial support includes

The “father” of British computing, Sir Maurice Wilkes, has died at the age of 97. Sir Maurice was the designer and creator of Edsac, a computer that ran its first program in May 1949… More (The Register)

Lecturer in computer science and digital forensics, and owner of SecurityBible Networks, George is also a well respected member and contributor in the Forensic Focus forums, posting under the username DarkSYN. Read our interview with him at http://www.forensicfocus.com/george-chlapoutakis-interview-291110

Ideas for student projects suggested by Forensic Focus members (in the hope that further research will be shared with the rest of the computer forensics community) are available at the following page: http://www.forensicfocus.com/project-ideas If you decide to base your project

The usage of LibCarvPath in the open computer forensics architecture (OCFA) led to the discovery of a multitude of bugs that have minor impact when using LibCarvPath on a single tool basis but that became important when scaled up. This

Software Analysis & Forensic Engineering Corporation has announced the release of CodeScreener, an online software service offering comparison of software source code or binary code. CodeScreener measures the correlation between two application programs, social network games, or mobile apps to

HBGary, Inc. has announced that James Butterworth and Sam Maccherola, who both previously worked at Guidance Software, have joined the company. Mr. Butterworth will serve as Vice President of Services and Mr. Maccherola will serve as Vice President of Worldwide

In December 2008, Virginia-based deputy sheriff Arthur Weston Staples III received a visit at home from police investigating claims he had traded CP images online. The former Vietnam vet, who had no previous offenses, was eventually sentenced to more than