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Guidance Software Inc. today announced the launch of its EnCase® On Demand training program which grants online access to the company’s courses in enterprise investigations (internal investigations, eDiscovery) and forensic investigations (law enforcement, fraud). The program’s inaugural offerings—EnCase Computer Forensics

Agile Risk Management LLC announces today that an agreement has been reached with X-Ways Software Technology AG to allow the reselling and bundling of Agile’s F-Response Remote Forensics software with X-Ways Forensics, X-Ways’s premier computer forensic application…X-Ways Forensics (www.x-ways.com) is

New versions of Oxygen Forensic programs have been released. Oxygen Forensic v2.17.5 for Nokia and Vertu phones: Licensing – Oxygen Forensic for Nokia and Vertu phones is now included in Oxygen Forensic Suite 2 package.Calendar – Added possibility of tasks

WebCase(TM), the flagship product of Vere Software, enables law enforcement, corporations and government agencies to collect, preserve and present, from the Internet, evidentiary data including web captures, video recording, TCP/IP collection, image captures, keystroke logging and chat collection… More (VereSoftware)

A lot of IT professionals who get started with forensics see graphical forensic applications like Encase and Forensic Toolkit (FTK), and they get turned off when they see that the Sleuth Kit is a collection of command-line utilities. While there

A computer forensic expert continued testimony Wednesday in the Neil Entwistle murder trial. Police detective Lawrence James discussed with he found during a search of Entwistle’s laptop computer. Lawrence James told a Middlesex Superior Court jury yesterday that Entwistle did

[A link for those following this ongoing exchange – Jamie] We call on you to retract the following statement, made to the press on May 15, 2008: “We are absolutely certain that the computer exhibits that our experts examined came

[Here’s an article with more technical details on this earlier story – Jamie] Here’s a lesson for computer neophytes – when you get accused of having CP on your computer, subsequently get fired, lose your friends and family and face

For in-house attorneys, the costs of discovery rise when Electronically Stored Information (ESI) is uncontrolled. The objective of the litigation readiness process is to make sure that the IT professionals and the legal professionals, who certainly speak different languages, understand

A Department of Industrial Accidents investigator has been cleared of CP possession charges after a forensic investigation revealed that malware was to blame for depraved smut on his company laptop. Michael Fiola, 53, of Rhode Island, went through a massive

Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block Internet bulletin boards and websites nationwide that disseminate CP, New York’s attorney general announced on Tuesday. The ISPs also agreed with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to contribute more

U.S. House of Representatives members who worry that China may have been responsible for attacks on their computers have provided little evidence to back up their claims, according to computer security experts…”It’s so very hard to conclude that something came

WetStone Technologies, Inc. announces U3 Live Investigator, a live acquisition and triage tool using U3 technology that is being created under the USB Live Acquisition and Triage Tool (US-LATT) contract funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). U3 Live

North Wales Police have launched a crime fighting business to step up their fight against computer and mobile phone crime. Police and BIC Innovation have joined forces to launch DATRIS – Data Recovery & Investigation Service – a private enterprise

After discovering a new and improved virus that encrypts important files on infected machines, researchers from Kaspersky are calling on fellow security professionals to lend a hand in cracking the massive key needed to liberate the ensnared data. The call

Forensics tools are often confused with other classifications of tools, such as incident management, e-discovery and data recovery. But while they can be used for those purposes, the difference is that they abide by formal evidence processing protocols such as