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The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded two grants totaling $149,977 to Wetstone Technologies Inc. in Ithaca under the National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Program to enable the company to acquire evidence from computer systems more quickly and reduce

E-mail messages, Excel spreadsheets and customer databases are featuring increasingly in cases of fraud, defamation and information theft, which gives wrongdoers more reason than ever to tamper with these electronic pieces of evidence. How well they do it could make

Ives Potrafka, a forensic examiner with the Center for Computer Forensics, sees a lot of data theft. Those responsible tend to be ex-employees, either starting up a company while employed or going to a competitor and taking trade secrets. According

In March 2009 the department of Forensic Services at Hoffmann Investigations will organize the first Advanced Forensic Sessions. These technical sessions are held in The Netherlands and aimed at experienced forensic investigators who want to increase their knowledge of the

As discussed in the forums, Helix 2.0 has been released and is available here.

If you’re a U.S. security professional and you think foreign attackers are the biggest threat to your organization, you’ve got another think coming, according to two new studies. According to separate research reports published yesterday, the United States is the

SS8 Networks, Inc., a provider of intercept solutions for telecommunication service providers and law enforcement agencies, is partnering with Fox-IT to offer FoxReplay Analyst, an Internet analysis system, to law enforcement agencies internationally. The company said that SS8 and Fox-IT

Early last Thursday, police in Market Harborough and Rugby arrested two forensics experts, Jim Bates and Chris Magee, on charges of “conspiracy to possess indecent images of children”. Jim Bates has frequently given testimony in computer forensic and CP cases,

The world of computer forensics used to be largely confined to the computer hard drive, but as more and more business professionals carry sensitive data around with ease on smart phones, BlackBerrys and iPhones, the challenge is to sort through

One of the UK’s largest independent IT forensic companies has announced a move to new larger premises at Royal House, So vereign Street, Leeds. The past year has seen a concerted period of growth for Leeds-based Data Genetics International Ltd

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is taking the lead in establishing an information network for e-crime prosecutors around the world. The CPS, responsible for prosecuting cases brought by law enforcement agencies, claims to be one of the first such authorities

An interview with Gene Spafford, Executive Director of CERIAS, is now online here. Many thanks to spaf for his thought provoking responses!

If you’ve got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could eventually recover, according to a renowned iPhone hacker who exposed the security flaw

A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous. The U.S. National Security Agency

An interview with Paul Wright, Detective Sergeant in charge of the Hi-Tech Crime Team within the City of London Police, is now online here. Many thanks to Paul for his time and detailed responses.

Not long ago, the legal department at a financial services company in New York got a phone call from a hospital in London. The query: Why are you hacking us? With two known IP addresses, it wasn’t difficult for the