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Forget leaving fingerprints at the scene of the crime. Today’s police know that the hard evidence they find on your hard drive can put you behind bars. Computer forensic analysts – the detectives of the digital world – are in

From Brian Carrier: The paper submission deadline for DFRWS 2005 has been extended untilFriday June 3, 2005. For those who have already submitted papers, you canstill edit your submission on the server. For those who requested anextension or are behind

In many failure-related cases, the chances of recovering data from a hard disk range from good to very good. If the electronic system is the only thing affected, then the drive can often be reused after the control panel has

A study of 200 hard drives bought on eBay this year reveals that over 70 per cent contained sensitive personal or business data. German data recovery firm O&O Software was able to recover 3.3 million files, including 40,000 Word documents,

A paper by Colin Armstrong (of Curtin University of Technology in Australia) entitled “Developing A Framework For Evaluating Computer Forensic Tools” is now available online. The paper can be read here. A list of other articles and papers available at

Arne Vidström has reported a weakness in EnCase, which can be exploited to hide information on a disk. The weakness is caused due to missing support of Device Configuration Overlays (DCO) and therefore causes the program to not acquire parts

A paper by Atif Ahmad entitled “The Forensic Chain of Evidence Model – Improving the Process of Evidence Collection in Incident Handling Procedures” is now available online. The paper can be read here. A full list of papers and articles

This week virus writers took a further step into the underworld when they released a Trojan horse program that holds computer data hostage unless you pay $200. The program infects computers through a weakness in Internet Explorer. It finds files

State agencies failed to remove private information before retiring outdated state computers, risking public disclosure of Social Security and credit card numbers, medical records and income taxes, a new report discloses. The legislative audit, obtained Tuesday, blamed unclear state policy

Australia’s electronic crime investigators are at risk of being outrun by new technology, one of the country’s senior computer forensic technicians has revealed. Australian Federal Police (AFP) Electronic Evidence Forensic and Technical co-ordinator Paul Reedy said police investigators would have

A new article by Joan E. Feldman of Computer Forensics Inc. entitled “The Essentials Of Computer Discovery” is now online. The article can be read here.

Howard Schmidt, the former cybersecurity adviser to the White House, has warned that there aren’t enough trained police officers in the world to tackle cybercrime effectively. Schmidt, now the chief security strategist at auction site eBay, told delegates at the

A new article from The Sleuth Kit Informer by Brian Carrier entitled “Description of the FAT fsstat Output” is now online. The article can be read here.

In an unmarked building in downtown Washington, Brian K. Nagel and 15 other Secret Service agents manned a high-tech command center, poised for the largest-ever roundup of a cybercrime gang. A huge map of the U.S., spread across 12 digital

A couple of years ago, the IJDE published an article by Frank Adelstein entitled “MFP: The Mobile Forensic Platform”. With the kind permission of both Frank and the IJDE I’m delighted to reproduce the article at Forensic Focus and it

November 28-30, 2005, NIST Headquarters, Gaithersburg, Maryland www.Forensics2005.com The Inaugural Techno Forensics conference will be sponsored by the Institute of Computer Forensics Professionals (ICFP) and Hosted by NIST. The conference is founded on the principles of standardization in the field