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According to Voom Technologies, Inc., Recent Supreme Court ruling places computer forensics under the scope of Court’s requirement for live testimony by forensic analysts. Although this controversial 5 to 4 decision was well-debated and resolved on constitutional grounds, the ramifications

A widespread computer attack has hit several US government agencies while some South Korean government websites also appear to be affected. The US Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department were all hit by the attack that

It was only a single digit in a 20-page Microsoft Word contract between two partners, but Scott Cooper earned his fee several years ago when he found it. Cooper, a computer forensics expert, learned that the numeral “1” had been

Dell has launched a service designed to help law-enforcement agencies convict more criminals as digital evidence proliferates. The company claims its digital-forensics offering will help police reduce backlogs that can be as long as two years, as it allows multiple

The email at the heart of the Utegate scandal would have been found easily by the Australian Federal Police and could have been fabricated in a number of ways, according to a computer forensics expert. Proof that an email sent

BOULDER, Colo. — A new law that took effect this week makes it illegal to lure children under age 15 through sexually-explicit text messages or cell-phone pictures, signifying a shift in popular technology and giving prosecutors another tool to catch

One of Britain’s biggest online paedophile inquiries is to be challenged in the court of appeal amid allegations from campaigners that hundreds of men have been wrongly convicted in a mass miscarriage of justice. For more than two years a

On May 21, Justice Margot Botsford of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ordered police to return computer equipment that they had seized from Boston College student Riccardo Calixte in March. Police had obtained a warrant and seized the computer

The SANS Forensics blog has moved to its new permanent home https://blogs.sans.org/computer-forensics. Update your feeds too, the new address is https://blogs.sans.org/computer-forensics/feed/

When performing incident response and forensics on a compromised system, the focus of analysis is on the most immediately available and relevant sources of evidence. Volatile data collected from a running system, the hard drive, network flow data, and logs

Forensic Focus is pleased to support The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), a charity which will be familiar to many UK members, especially those involved with child protection issues. The NSPCC’s annual HACK (Hike Against

Swiss police say they have uncovered an internet CP network spanning 78 countries and involving at least 2,000 IP internet addresses. An inquiry was launched after a tip-off from Interpol about a website based in Switzerland being used as a

E-fense has released the next version of Helix3 Pro 2009R2. The new version contains many new features including the ability to image RAM on Linux and the ability to send multiple forensic images over the network using the new Helix3

Two police officers resigned from the force after they spotted a gap in the market to supply high-quality forensic examination of mobile phones and computer records. They set up Bolton-based Zentek Forensics in 2004 using their extensive knowledge of police

Sanderson Forensics has announced the release of LinkAlyzer. LinkAlyzer is a forensic tool that decodes and displays the content of multiple link files (Windows Shortcuts) at the same time. LinkAlyzer Loads multiple (tested on 40,000+) link files into a grid

Britain is to appoint its first national cyber security chief to protect the country from terrorist computer hackers and electronic espionage, Gordon Brown will announce tomorrow. The Prime Minister’s move comes amid fears that the computer systems of government and