Universities offering postgraduate courses for IT professionals claim to be seeing increasing interest in computer forensics skills, both from employers and from applicants. Speaking to ZDNet at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London on Tuesday, Dr Ivan Flechais, a lecturer at Oxford University’s software engineering centre, said he is seeing the term appear in many more job descriptions. “This is one area that is really picking up, and we’re looking at it, trying to gauge if it is just the latest fad or whether it will prove more enduring…”