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HBGary, Inc. and Skout Forensics have announced the signing of an OEM agreement. Under the agreement, Skout Forensics will integrate HBGary’s Windows memory acquisition tool FDPro™ into the company’s patent-pending flagship product, the Skout Forensics Data Collection and Preservation Kit,

Sam Brothers has written a new article titled iPhone Tool Classification. In this article, he explores the varying degrees of data extraction that can be performed on the iPhone with many of the available tools today and breaks down the

Passware, Inc. has announced Passware Kit 10.1. This is the first commercially available software that cracks passwords for the most difficult to decrypt file types – RAR archives and TrueCrypt hard disks – using advanced acceleration methods provided by graphic

For those of you unfamiliar with this term (that is pretty much everyone) – this is the new sport of throwing yourself out of a perfectly good aeroplane and then performing a forensic hex-dump on a mobile phone in mid-air.

by Chris Hargreaves "During the last two weeks I have spent a disproportionate amount of time staring at a command prompt. This has been for a couple of reasons, which will be mentioned later in this article. What was interesting

Radio Tactics Ltd www.radio-tactics.com, a global provider of specialist equipment used by military and law enforcement agencies for the real-time capture of intelligence and evidence from mobile digital devices, has announced the launch of Athena v4. Athena provides rapid and

A review of PeerLab by Jonathan Krause is now online here. Please use this thread for discussion of the review.

An annual award sponsored by Forensic Focus available to those studying at the Centre for Forensic Computing at Cranfield University was recently awarded for the first time. The prize, consisting of a trophy and cash sum, is awarded to the

Paraben has announced that full conference registration, including labs, is open for PFIC 2010, November 7-10 in Park City, Utah. PFIC 2010 will feature new lab tracks, an added a vendor showcase room for live demonstrations, and more opportunities for

Katana Forensics has announced the release of Lantern 1.0.6. This version delivers support for iOS4 and the iPhone 4 device. Lantern 1.0.6 also fixes extracting images from iPads, GUI and Logging enhancements. Lantern is available at www.katanaforensics.com or Teel Technologies.

F-Response http://www.f-response.com has added support for the Android OS to its arsenal of forensic tools. This provides examiners with the possibility of examining embedded devices such as tablets, media players, and mobile phones that use this OS. More info here

A national competition has been launched to find the next generation of UK cyber security specialists. The Cyber Security Challenge will put entrants through a series of online and face-to-face competitions to assess their abilities. The prizes on offer include

A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday ruled that it’s not a criminal act to violate the Terms of Service of a Web site, a decision hailed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The case, Facebook v. Power Ventures, arose because

Lt. Jeff Weible and his staff are fond of secrecy. Their job requires intense secrecy and special skills, mostly with computers, sometimes with acting, always with the pursuit of sex criminals in mind. His most experienced detective, Jennifer Wright, is

A reminder that there is a 10% discount available until 24th July for the two day Connection Records/Intro to Cell Site Analysis course in the UK run by Sam Raincock. Further details available here.

ADF Solutions Inc. announced today that the company has been selected by the Department of Homeland Security to develop a universal triage field kit that will aid law enforcement officers in the immediate extraction of information and evidence from computers