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Teel Technologies has announced its Fall and Winter schedule of Advanced Mobile Device Forensic classes and iPhone Bootcamp courses, as well as introducing tool-specific and online training. Complete scheduling information can be found at www.TeelTechTraining.com.Teel Tech’s Advanced Class educates students

"A while ago I developed a small piece of software to resolve an MSN Messenger User ID to the email address used to create it and this has been used internally at Kent Police for quite a while. After we

The UK-based digital forensics company, Forensic Telecommunications Services (FTS) has been awarded accreditation to ISO 17025:2005 and, in a UK first, the laboratory has been assessed and granted accreditation for its specialist techniques used in physically recovering deleted data from

Prosecutors in a New Jersey ticket scalping case are pushing the envelope on the federal computer hacking law, setting a precedent that could make it a felony to violate a website’s terms of service and fool a CAPTCHA, according to

"On June 28, 2010, the Federal Trade Commission unveiled a law suit againt unknown credit card fraudsters, seizing the assets of 16 companies run by at least fourteen "money mules". Each of these companies was run by a money mule

A year ago in April, the government says, the accused operative known as Richard Murphy and his supposed wife, “Cynthia Murphy,” booted up a computer in their comfy suburban Montclair, N.J., home. They visited a publicly available Web site and

From 22 – 26 November 2010 Hoffmann Forensic Services will for the third time organize the Advanced Forensic Sessions. These technical sessions are aimed at experienced forensic investigators who want to increase their knowledge of the latest forensic techniques in

As discussed at the 2009 MTEB Conference, Greg Smith of TrewMTE has today launched “Fundamentals & Principles, Mobile Phone Programming”. Questions answered by the course include: How does the programming language relate to evidence? What does the keypad tell us?

Researchers at UK computer forensics firm Disklabs have helped develop technology that will drastically speed up the forensic analysis of ‘Volume Shadow Copies’ (VSC) of suspect Windows computers. The introduction of VSC technology in Windows 2003 created a huge headache

This month sees the launch of the Forensic Focus Preferred Training program which aims to highlight the very best digital forensics training available. The first course offered is "Mobile Forensics: Investigating Connection Records" delivered in the UK by Sam Raincock

by Joachim Metz "While some may curse Windows Vista for all its changes, for us forensic investigators it also introduced new interesting 'features'. One is the integration of Windows (Desktop) Search into the operating system. Most corporations have been reluctant

by Sam Raincock "When a crime happens, the time of the events may be critical to the legal case. However, how are these times established? Is it the time alleged by the witness? When the CCTV system captured the image?

Computer forensics software vendor Belkasoft announced today that it has recovered the new QQ messenger history format. Tencent QQ is the most popular Instant Messenger globally with user base about 1 billion of people and is very widely used in

Radio Tactics Ltd, a provider of mobile phone forensics equipment, has announced the official opening of its Australian Office, complementing its existing presence in the UK and USA. The opening of the new office constitutes the next step in an

The Metropolitan Police has arrested two London youths for their alleged roles in an international cyber crime forum. The teenagers were picked up yesterday on suspicion of encouraging or assisting crime, unauthorised access under the Computer Misuse Act and conspiracy

Backbone Security has announced availability of 32-bit and 64-bit versions of their popular digital steganography detection tools for use on forensic workstations running 64-bit operating systems. The new versions of the tools can run under Windows XP Pro x64, Windows