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Cyber scams are increasingly being committed by organised crime syndicates out to profit from sophisticated ruses rather than hackers keen to make an online name for themselves, according to a top U.S. official. Christopher Painter, deputy chief of the computer

In an effort to improve forensic research in Rhode Island, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that the University of Rhode Island will receive $599,793 to purchase improved computer software technology. The money will be dispersed in two grants

During his law enforcement days Harry Megerian got his hands on a lot of IT gear – by brute force. “We probably did a raid once a week or once every two weeks,” says Megerian, a former computer forensics specialist

A new breed of forensic tools, designed with the help of Whangarei-based Thackray Forensics, can now access and clone the full contents of a mobile phone or PDA within seconds. Managing director John Thackray is one of a handful of

From Brian Carrier: Major improvements for TSK are fixes for segfaults that were discussed on the mailing list, new versions of libewf and afflib that add support for the SMART format and that fix some compile bugs (respectively), and …

From Brian Carrier: The Windows executables that were released last week did not run on everyone’s systems. A second release is out that uses different compileoptions. http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/download.php

As expert members of the international computer forensics community which provides unique and highly desirable services to the legal system, we assume a responsibility to provide services to those in need yet unable to pay. As a result, the Computer

A piece of software which allows a user to track another person’s mobile phone use would be almost impossible to use in the UK without breaking the law, according to a surveillance law expert. Flexispy is the controversial software which

Besides reading and writing (EnCase) EWF files with the libewf library, it’s now possible to read and write SMART images as well. With the ewfacquire tool you now can create a bit-copy image from devices in the SMART image format

Imagine a laboratory filled with equipment advanced enough to locate deleted CP on a hard drive, recover old e-mails sent on a cell phone and trace the owner of a camera used to download photographs onto a laptop. Welcome to

In 2007, I will be chairing a conference session on Cyber/Digital forensics for ITNG in Las Vegas, NV. The International Conference on Information Technology- New Generations (ITNG) is an annual event focusing on state of the art technologies pertaining to

16 years have passed since the primary piece of legislation to govern cyber-crimes and cyber-criminals (the Computer Misuse Act 1990) was passed, but the power of computer technology and our access to it in the workplace and the home have

Bloomsburg University has introduced a new major that will train students to investigate the improper or illegal use of computers and digital devices, a field known as computer forensics. Computer forensics focuses on collecting, examining and presenting digitally stored evidence

Two Former Federal Agents Talk About Computer Forensics, Network Security and Computer Crime… "This episode we have Keith Jones, Director of Computer Forensics, Incident Response, and Litigation Support for MANDIANT who recently testified as an expert witness in the UBS

An Information technology expert has designed a digital forensic tool that can home in on workplace computers used for criminal activity or deliberate misuse of the Internet. Bennie Fei, a masters student at the University of Pretoria, warned that there

A web browser has been released that promises total privacy for its users. Browzar, as it is known, automatically deletes all traces of the pages a person has visited, and the terms that they have searched for on the web…