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Password-cracking tools optimised to work with SSDs have achieved speeds up to 100 times quicker than previously possible… More (The Register)

Parents dropped their children off at school Thursday morning, knowing the front door would be locked behind them. By the afternoon, the partial lockdown was over in Minneapolis public schools. What remains is uncertainty and fear caused by someone on

Gary Warner, the director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), has been named the country’s “Most Popular Security Blogger” after a vote of information-security peers and blog readers.The popular blogger vote was hosted

Sharing information with law enforcement after a breach is critical to successfully battling increasingly sophisticated and organized cybercriminals, security experts said during a panel discussion at the RSA Conference 2010. The biggest challenge for law enforcement is trying to work

"Last Friday I had a conversation with Rob Lee of Mandiant and SANS. We talked about a few things but mostly about the upcoming SANS EU Forensic Summit. Even if you’re not planning on attending it's worth listening to find

Interview with Christa Miller about the need for law enforcement and digital forensics specialists to manage their online resumes, plus FreeBSD Tips on SANS Forensic Blog, FireFox Internet History Analysis and more… http://cyberspeak.libsyn.com/cyber_speak_february_28_2010

The director of the FBI Robert Mueller used his keynote address to the RSA 2010 conference to appeal for greater cooperation between law enforcement and the private sector to fight online crime. He told delegates that the need for cooperation

Abu Dhabi has its first batch of dedicated cyber crimebusters. Fifteen police officers, including one woman, have completed master of science degrees at Zayed University with a specialisation in cyber security. They will be equipped with the most up-to-date weapons

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

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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