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"I am currently finalising the details for the Introduction to Connection Records course and wondered what do you want to know? Training is not about the trainer. It’s about your learning! Currently the course will contain lectures and practical exercises

by Simon Biles "Authentication and Authorisation are fundamental to information security – identifying who a user is (authentication), and what they are allowed (authorised) to do allow us to restrict access to data in such a way that only the

Several months ago, the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM conducted an evaluation of computer media exploitation and cellular telephone exploitation products, systems, and tools…This article covers how USSOCOM tested and selected a triage tool that best fit the military’s

Selena Ley has written a new article about Safari Browser Analysis. In this article, she explores the files that you will find useful when performing a Macintosh or Windows examination with Safari installed. Read it here.

UK students – Win a free* place on the “Investigating Connection Records and Introduction to Cell Site Analysis” Training Course in Birmingham (UK), 23rd – 24th August 2010 provided by Sam Raincock Consultancy. To enter you MUST be a current

The second edition of the new monthly podcast Digital Detectives was released on July 26, 2010 on Legal Talk Network. The podcast, entitled “Current Issues in Computer Forensics,” takes a look at how vital knowledge of e-Discovery is in today’s

Backbone Security has announced the release of Version 3.6 of their Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) which now contains more than 850 steganography applications. Developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC), SAFDB is the world’s largest commercially available

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