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EnCase(R) Forensic has been recognized with SC Magazine’s 2010 Reader Trust Award in the category of Best Computer Forensics Solution. The announcement was made at the SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco…EnCase

Solera Networks has announced its partnership with EMC Corporation. The companies’ technologies will create a network forensics storage solution to meet the growing needs of Fortune 1000 companies and government institutions…Today’s threats target enterprise and government networks using tactics that

A New York City man swallowed a USB data storage device while in the custody of Secret Service agents. Reports indicate the man swallowed the Kingston flash drive shortly after his January 21 arrest outside a bank in Queens. A

Spanish police have revealed that they have arrested three men responsible for one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers. All are Spanish citizens with no criminal records and limited hacking skills. It is estimated that the so-called Mariposa

AccessData has announced the release of distributed processing capabilities with its Forensic Toolkit® 3.0.4 (FTK®) release. When analyzing digital evidence, investigators must process the captured data to break out compound files and index documents and email, so they can be

Our University and College Course Directory has been updated with the following institutions: American InterContinental University (US)Arapahoe Community College (US)Marshall University (US)Lawrence Technological University (US)Harper College (US)California Sciences Institute (US)Lenoir Community College (US)Regis University (US)Boston University (US)University of Rhode Island

EviGator Digital Forensics have released Version 1.0.0 of iPhorensic, a tool designed to recover data from iPhone backup files found on computers during an investigation. iPhorensic can also be used to examine files recovered directly from an iPhone using other

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