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Cash machines hacked to spew out card details
“Skulduggery,” says Andrew Henwood, “is a very good word to describe what this extremely advanced, cleverly written malware gets up to. We’ve never seen anything like it.” What he has discovered is a devious piece of criminal coding that has
ACPO-APA International Policing Exhibition to focus on forensics
A key focus of the seminar programme will be on ‘Clearing the digital forensics backlog’ which will examine the increasing pressure on digital forensic experts to quickly identify and share the growing volume of digital evidence to help secure arrests
Computer Forensics Finds Twitter Plays Key Role in Cyber Attacks
Users of the popular networking site Twitter could be the unwitting participants in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) computer attacks that are rendering Iranian government Web sites inaccessible to users, said Gary Warner, Director of Research in Computer Forensics at
New forum (Live and Network Forensics) and new moderator
A new forum dedicated to live and network forensics is now online at Forensic Focus. Nick Furneaux will be moderating this new forum (for a recent interview with Nick, click here) and joins Greg Smith – our mobile phone forensics
Amendments to Computer Crime Law Are a Dark Cloud with a Ray of Light
In September of last year, Congress amended the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) as part of a larger bill dealing with identity theft. Unfortunately, the amendments broaden the already extensive reach of the law, and fail to clarify the
Download pirates to launch new weapon
One of the largest sources of pirated content, BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, this week began testing an “encrypted virtual private network” that purports to offer anonymous downloading for 5 euro a month. The Pirate Bay said it planned to
UK’s Serious Fraud Office gets first CIO
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has hired its first chief information officer, Josh Ellis. Ellis will take responsibility for the organisation’s IT services and its Digital Forensics Unit, which is used to seize electronic evidence. In his earlier career, Ellis
Interview with Graham Brown-Martin, Digital Safety Conference
An interview with Graham Brown-Martin, organiser of the upcoming Digital Safety Conference in London, is now online at http://www.forensicfocus.com/graham-brown-martin-interview-120609
Eastern Europe producing CP
Organised crime syndicates are driving a proliferation of online CP with Eastern Europe emerging as the main source of material. Australian Federal Police national manager of hi-tech crime and child protection operations, Neil Gaughan, said an 18-minute video seized as
Interview with Lee Whitfield, Forensic 4cast
An interview with Lee Whitfield of Forensic 4cast is now online at http://www.forensicfocus.com/lee-whitfield-interview-100609
Feds Need 10,000 Cyber Security Experts
The head of the DoD-sponsored Digital Forensics Challenge said that contests like this will help the U.S. government find the talent it needs. He added that the original plans, which called for a national cyber Olympics, have been scaled back
Logicube Launches New Forensic Quest Data Capture Solution
Logicube® Inc. will debut its completely re-designed Forensic Quest®, at the TechnoSecurity 2009 Conference and Expo in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina this week. Users can now capture and authenticate hard drives at speeds approaching 6GB/min and the new touch screen
Interview with Robert Botchek, President and Founder – Tableau, LLC
An interview with Robert Botchek, President and Founder of Tableau, LLC is now online at http://www.forensicfocus.com/robert-botchek-interview-090609
Three cloud computing risks to consider
When data and applications are moved off the local personal computer, the forensics investigator may lose the ability to access very critical information for the case. The provenance of a particular file or the time the file was last accessed
UK Home Office needs to get serious about e-crime
Microsoft hosted 190 police and law enforcement officers for three days’ training in IT forensics this week, saving the government some £325,000. It’s Microsoft’s way of giving something back to the industry, says Ed Gibson, the former FBI agent who