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Guidance Software announced Wednesday that it’s created the first-ever approach to conducting computer forensics on live industrial control and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. The company said that the benefit of its new program would be to help

Paraben Corporation has announced the release of the first consumer tool for recovering deleted data from iPhones. The iRecovery Stick recovers user data, both active and deleted, such as deleted text (SMS) messages, deleted contacts, and deleted calendar items, from

In today’s digital age, the ability to rapidly triage a live running computer system has never been more important. Through National Institute of Justice funding, WetStone Technologies has developed a tool known as US-LATT, US Live Acquisition and Triage Tool,

The SANS Institute has offered the winner of Digital Forensics Magazine’s Issue 4 competition one free pass to either the 2010 Digital Forensics Response Summit in the UK (London, Sept 8-9) or next year’s US Digital Forensics and Incident Response

A manager of a company dealing in mobile phones has been jailed for 54 months and ordered to pay a penalty of nearly S$17.1 million in Singapore’s biggest GST fraud case so far. IRAS said computer forensic techniques were used

Dell has been accused of withholding evidence, including e-mails among its top executives, in a lawsuit over faulty computers it sold to businesses, according to a filing made Thursday. Advanced Internet Technologies filed a motion in Federal District Court in

"I work for a small police department in Georgia, and being the only one in my division able to competently use a computer I got sent to the Mississippi State University Introduction to Digital Forensics one week course. Now my

One of the alleged ringleaders behind the 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay has been extradited to the U.S., where he was arraigned Friday in the Northern District of Georgia on charges that he helped coordinate the global $9.5 million bank

"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,