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A man who created a website trading in stolen financial information linked to tens of millions of pounds in losses has been jailed for nearly five years. Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, founded Darkmarket, a “Facebook for fraudsters” where criminals could buy

Long-established privacy and cryptology website Cryptome was pulled offline on Wednesday after Microsoft launched a legal offensive over its publication of Redmond’s guide to internet wiretapping… More (The Register)

Katana Forensics has released version 1.0.4.0, adding the feature of passcode bypass. Release Notes for 1.0.4.0 – Added support for certificate file for locked phones– Fixed memory errors while extracting large and numerous files– Locked artifact files– Added debugging information

Logicube, Inc. has posted a product comparison of its Forensic Quest data capture solution vs the Tableau TD1 on its website. Click on the link entitled “Product Comparison Quest vs TD1” at the following URL: http://www.logicubeforensics.com/products/hd_duplication/forensic-quest.asp The document, in PDF

Logicube® Inc. has announced that it has acquired the intellectual property of the CellDEK™ technology. Logicube and the Forensic Science Service developed two products around the CellDEK technology; CellDEK (launched in 2005) and CellDEK TEK (launched in 2007). Both products,

Computer forensics examiners can determine when an external storage device like a thumb drive or external hard drive has been attached to a computer and from that information infer that files have been copied to the external storage device. Lawyers

Pop quiz: Name a crime that doesn’t relate to computers. Go ahead. Still thinking? Here’s a hint: you probably can’t. “No matter the crime, we can come up with some angle that will show, yeah, there’s a potential that’s a

The largest and most noticeable change to this new release is the ability to use F-Response Enterprise to directly deploy to remote potential F-Response targets via the GUI completely independent of platform. It is now just as easy to deploy

Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to

Two new partnerships will provide police in the United Kingdom with better access to cybercrime fighting tools. Fernico Europe Ltd. and Technology Risk Ltd. have joined with American firm Vere Software: Fernico to re-sell the Internet investigation software WebCase, TRL

An analysis of actual data compromise cases has been released by Computer Security and Forensics consulting firm 7Safe and the University of Bedfordshire. Anonymised data has been analysed from over 60 computer forensic investigations undertaken by 7Safe in what makes

UK police are continuing to develop a tool to detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs that could be as easy for officers to use as a breathalyser. Specialist e-crime policing organisations have been examining commercially available digital forensic devices

A forthcoming survey of computer crime investigators suggests that electronic surveillance is a bit more commonplace than most people might expect. Even a relatively small group of 100 police working on online investigations reports submitting as many as 22,800 legal

Upgrades and system changes allow IT departments to streamline efficiency and gain functionality for companies of all sizes, but many are considering an additional factor when making the change to Windows 7: litigation preparedness… More (Computer Technology Review)

Digital Forensics Magazine has launched its second issue…Highlights in this issue include an in-depth look at Google’s mobile operating system, Android, a guide on how to build your very own volatile memory forensics toolkit, and a detailed product review of

It’s been three weeks since Google announced that a sophisticated and coordinated hack attack dubbed Operation Aurora recently targeted it and numerous other U.S. companies…Now a leading computer forensic firm is providing the closest look so far at the nature