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Microsoft unleashed its legal attack dogs to remove its leaked forensics tool from a respected security site, it has emerged. Cryptome.org was issued with a take-down notice shortly after Microsoft’s point-and-click “computer forensics for cops” tool leaked onto the web

A build-up of seized technology waiting for forensic examination could pose a serious risk to ongoing investigations, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) lead on e-crime has warned. In an interview with The Register, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Janet Williams

Capturing, storing and analyzing network traffic using network forensics can let administrators turn back the clock to perform post-attack analysis for security exploits. Beyond security, there are other day-to-day use cases for network forensics… More (TechNewsWorld)

Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer at Veracode which advises many governments on security, said cyber war presented its own problems when it came to deciding motive and finding the perpetrators. “In physical warfare it’s pretty clear who has which weapon

Where’s my pancakes, read Rodney Bradford’s Facebook page, in a message typed on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 11:49 a.m., from a computer in his father’s apartment in Harlem. At the time, the sentence, written in indecipherable street slang, was just

"So COFEE has finally been leaked onto the Internet. It was inevitable and it’s a wonder that it wasn’t released sooner, but nevertheless it marks a sad day for the Law Enforcement computer forensics community…So why the long face, as

On Thursday, November 12, starting at 11 a.m. Pacific time, Corona (California) Detective Frank Zellers will present this 60-minute webinar designed to show corporate and law enforcement investigators how to obtain evidence and information from social networking sites. The “MySpace

As many of you know I’ve recently made a start on building the new education section at Forensic Focus (hopefully bringing it online later this month) with the aim of listing every computer forensics university and college course worldwide. I’d

CelleBrite Ltd., has announced an expansion to its’ UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) family of products with the launch of UFED Physical Pro, enabling law enforcement forensic agencies to extract any information found in the internal memory of mobile devices,

EnCase Portable has been selected by an independent judges panel of law enforcement professionals for the Forensics award in Cygnus Law Enforcement Group`s 2009 Innovation Awards. The panel evaluated products submitted for innovativeness, productivity, quality, contribution, ease of use and

What is cyber forensics and how does it factor in to cyber defense? "Cyber Forensics is the art and science of extracting data from digital media whereas cyber defense uses cyber forensics to identify threats and respond to incidents. However,

With the hit-or-miss performance of antivirus solutions and craftiness of malware authors, determining whether a computer system is infected is getting harder. As a result of the above conundrum, I’ve been looking for some way to get more details about

A new version of SC Suite is available, version 3.8 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

Texas Department of Public Safety will hire more employees to help trim a backlog of computer-related investigations. A statement today from DPS says the goal is to decrease the time it takes to conduct forensic computer examinations, especially involving alleged

A review of CSI Tech’s Advanced Live Forensics & RAM Analysis Training course is now available here. The review is written by Jonathan Krause of Forensic Control.

WiebeTech, a brand of CRU-DataPort™, has partnered with Voom Technologies™ and Digital Reconnaissance, Inc.™, a premier solutions provider for the digital forensics and legal discovery industries, to introduce the Recon Series™ computer forensics field kits at the Techno Forensics and