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The threat of cybercrime is rising sharply, experts have warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos. They called for a new system to tackle well-organised gangs of cybercriminals. Online theft costs $1 trillion a year, the number of attacks

Forensic Focus now has a video section with the aim of listing online videos which are of interest to those in the computer forensics community. The main index can be found at http://www.forensicfocus.com/computer-forensics-videos (note, you need to be logged in

“The Julie Amero porn pop-up case should be history by now, but some folks just won’t let it die. Cringe has the scoop…Normally I try to let sleeping dogs lie. But this is one hound who keeps barking and won’t

Software Analysis & Forensic EngineeringCorporation (www.SAFE-corp.biz) has releasedSourceDetective(TM), a tool in its CodeSuite® set of software tools for comparing computer code to detect plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trade secret theft. SourceDetective helps definitively prove or disprove copying of source code

5th Circuit Appeal court upheld a murder conviction based on Google searches and a suggestive Guns N’ Roses song he downloaded. He appealed on grounds that the evidence was wholly circumstantial and insufficient for conviction. A Florida state appeals court

Paraben has announced the release of Device Seizure v3.0 and P2 Commander 1.2. Both releases have new features. If you don’t have these products in your toolbox, you can add them for less than the annual maintenance on similar tools

HBGary Responder Professional 1.3 allows security professionals, malware analysts and forensic investigators to more effectively and efficiently detect, diagnose and investigate computer crimes on live Windows computer systems…HBGary Responder Professional 1.3 fulfills many of the rigorous requirements that top computer

Hundreds of investigations of online child sexual exploitation and CP have been significantly delayed by backlogs at FBI cybercrime labs, according to a Justice Department report released Friday. An audit conducted more than a year ago by the department’s inspector

A very short survey (10 questions) has been created in an attempt to clarify what aspects of the Forensic Focus site visitors find important, what areas they feel are less useful and what they would like to see added in

Several computer forensic experts have tackled the legend that, in order to properly protect it from recovery, data stored on an HDD needs to be overwritten multiple times. According to their scientific study, doing it a single time is enough,

The Home Office has signed up to an EU strategy against cybercrime that “encourages” police across Europe to remotely access personal computers. The plan has sparked fears that the government is looking to increase police powers to hack into people’s

Durham County prosecutors who wrapped up two robbery cases last week involving the online classifieds site Craigslist say computer forensics played a key role in the case…Durham County Assistant District Attorney Stormy Ellis said Durham police were able to trace

One of the least researched, but most important subject areas for the future of business is the field of computer forensics. It’s a huge area and a massive challenge for all organisations that rely on digital transactions. In the past,

The events calendar will be offline for a few days for testing. Apologies for any inconvenience. Jamie

IT needs a consistent approach to creating timestamps for forensic computing. Whenever evidence about what is found on a hard drive is put before courts, the lawyers usually fail to ask the right question. They want to know whether certain

MacOSXForensics.com has announced that their team and the Cyber Forensics Lab of Purdue University are going to partner on forensic tool development. Dr. Marc Rogers and his team will be reviewing the source code of the tools in question.. More