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A paper from Access Data titled “The Importance of Memory Search and Analysis” is now available here.

Digital Assembly has released Adroit Photo Forensics, an advanced photo carving and forensics tool. It allows recovery of heavily fragmented photos and preparation of reports. Download a free trial from http://digital-assembly.com/products/adroit-photo-forensics/ (Note: Download is free, to save carved images, purchase

At the Digital Crimes Consortium, Microsoft Corp. and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) announced an agreement establishing NW3C as the first U.S.-based distributor of the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE). A Microsoft-developed program, COFEE uses digital forensic

Mobile forensic solutions provider Micro Systemation AB has launched a North American office, MSAB Inc., to provide direct sales, training, and technical support for its .XRY, .XACT, and other products…Headquartered in Washington, D.C., MSAB Inc. is responding to increased demand

“Tracing IP Addresses” is the second in of a series of free webinars offered by Vere Software. On Thursday, October 22, starting at 11 a.m. Pacific time, associate professor and consultant of digital forensics Gary Kessler will present this 60-minute

The Metropolitan Police Service is to spend £32m on a four-year framework supply deal for equipment to help with forensic analysis of digital devices. The Official Journal of the European Union says the Met wants the equipment to cover computers,

Computer forensics experts called to testify before a judge and jury must relay the facts of the case but equally important, must convey them in a way a jury can understand. On the witness stand, a computer forensic expert must

A new paper from Joachim Metz of Hoffmann Investigations titled “Shrinking the gap: carving NTFS-compressed files” is now available here. Readers may be interested to note that carving NTFS-compressed data will be part of the advanced carving topic of the

The High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) Asia Pacific Chapter is proud to announce the Third Asia Pacific Regional Training Conference which will be held in Hong Kong from 2-4 December 2009. It will combine a one day seminar with

A new version of SC Suite is available, version 3.7 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

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2.4.1 now offers forensically important data in XML format, ideal for additional cell phone forensics analysis that experts might want to undertake in certain cases. With new models like Nokia N97 mini and Nokia 5230 the number

State and County Law Enforcement Handle 90% of Felonies, but Not Many Agencies Have High-Tech Crime-Fighting Capability… More (WSJ.com)

WetStone is hosting an Advanced Zombies and Botnets course on October 22, 2009 in Gaithersburg, MD at the Techno Forensics & Digital Investigations Conference. Students will have access to their “hands-on” interactive learning environment where they will learn to Setup-Investigate-Shutdown

MacForensicsLab Inc. has announced the release of MacForensicsLab Field Agent (MFL-FA). MFL-FA is the first freely available law enforcement tool designed to be “tri-platform” (Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Mac OS X) specifically to combat crimes against children by helping

Computer forensic experts have recovered 4,286 deleted e-mails that belonged to a top Menino aide, and will be releasing them to the media late tomorrow afternoon, the city announced last night… More (BostonHerald.com)

Larry Daniel, CEO of Guardian Digital Forensics announced today the release of Drive Prophet Professional – Forensic Edition. Developed by Mark McKinnon of Red Wolf Forensics, LLC, Drive Prophet is an advanced information collection software that can be used for