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“Legal Issues with Online Investigation,” the fifth in a series of free webinars offered by Vere Software, will provide an overview of recent court decisions involving online investigations, with an emphasis on child exploitation crimes…Richard Whidden, Executive Director and Senior

The ADFSL 2010 Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law will be hosted by Metropolitan State University and held at Hilton Garden Inn, St. Paul, MN USA on 19-21 May 2010. The conference committee is calling for papers and proposals…ANNOUNCEMENT:

After years of having to send computers and cell phones to be analyzed by outside forensics labs, the Boulder Police Department on Wednesday debuted its own “computer crimes laboratory”… More (Colorado Daily) [includes video]

The Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) program, a SANS Institute affiliate, has announced that the GIAC Certified Forensics Analyst (GCFA), GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA) and GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) have been accredited under the ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024 Personnel Certification

http://www.d-forensics.org – This conference brings together practitioners and researchers from diverse fields providing opportunities for business and intellectual engagement among attendees. The conference is organized by the College of Information Technology at Zayed University with the Institute for Computer Sciences,

Microsoft announced last month that it would donate PhotoDNA, a technology developed by Microsoft Research, to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which will use it to identify and eliminate images of child sexual abuse and exploitation… More

Internet pirates are moving away from safe havens such as Sweden to new territories that include China and Ukraine, as they try to avoid prosecution for illegal file sharing, according to experts… More (The Guardian)

A new version of SC Suite is available, version 4.0 now includes more tools to analyse and extract information from a variety of file types and utilities to assist in every day tasks. Continuing user feedback has resulted in the

“What is it? In a nutshell, it’s replacing the traditional 512 byte hard drive sector with a 4 kilobyte (4,096B) hard drive sector for a number of practical and technological reasons. The move to 4K-sectors has been some 10 years

Into The Boxes is an e-magazine covering issues concerning Digital Forensics and Incident Response. The first issue contains four specific articles that cover a variety of digital forensic and incident response issues… More (Into the Boxes)

A review of Adroit Photo Forensics is now online here with follow up discussion available here. Many thanks to Austin Troxell for the review.

A German computer scientist has published details of the secret code used to protect the conversations of more than 4bn mobile phone users. Karsten Nohl, working with other experts, has spent the past five months cracking the algorithm used to

The results and winners of the 2009 Digital Forensics Research (DFRWS2009) Challenge were announced at the 9th Annual DFRWS Conference. This challenge delves into gaming consoles from a forensic perspective, combining UNIX file system forensics, memory forensics, and network forensics.

DECAF takes an interesting turn at decafme.org plus Cyberspeak interview at http://cyberspeak.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=561335

With the demand rising rapidly for computer forensics, Nuneaton-based computer forensics firm IntaForensics has enjoyed rapid growth. Now, the firm is launching a free 5-day intensive training course to attract the interest of local graduates…In recent years, as computers and

In response to Microsoft’s Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE), which helps law enforcement officials grab data from password protected or encrypted sources, two developers have created “Detect and Eliminate Computer Assisted Forensics” (DECAF), a counter intelligence tool designed to