20th August 2025

Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered
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UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

19th August 2025

Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....read more

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....read more

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

Enterprise Turns To AI For Speed And Accuracy In DFIR

14th August 2025

Magnet Forensics explores how AI is revolutionizing speed and accuracy in DFIR....read more

Computer crime laws worry security pros

Moves by several European countries to tighten laws against computer hacking worry security professionals, who often use the same tools as hackers but for legitimate purposes. The U.K. and Germany are among the countries that are considering revisions to their

CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Lawhttp://www.jdfsl.org/Special Issue on International & Comparative Digital Forensics, Security and LawCALL FOR PAPERS – Submission Deadline: 31 January 2007The globalization of business relations, and the occurrence of international frauds, brought the frequent occurrence of

Northwest Vista creates new computer forensic technology degree plan

Northwest Vista College (San Antonio, US) has launched a new associate’s degree program designed to help prepare students for a career in computer forensics. Students who pursue an associate of applied science degree in computer forensics technology will learn information

Spam trail uncovers junk empire

An investigation into a seemingly routine series of spam messages has revealed how sophisticated the business of online crime has become. The story begins with the junk mail messages themselves that were sent during April and May of 2006… More

Sheriff seeks task force to combat online crime

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department is seeking funding for a new interagency computer crimes task force to combat online CP, identity theft and fraud. “There’s just a huge gamut of offenses that are occurring on a daily basis,” said Boone

Ten Ways to Mow Down EDD Costs

Electronic data discovery costs less than paper discovery. Honest. In comparable volumes, it’s cheaper to collect, index, store, copy, transport, search and share electronically stored information. But we hoard data with an indiscriminate tenacity we’d label mental illness if we

Forensic Investigation To Be Done On Casino Machine!

After a closed-door meeting between a man who claims he won a $250,000 jackpot and the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, it is still a waiting game. On Aug. 29, Freddy Howard swiped his Players Club card in one of

Sri Lanka computer crime bill “celebrates” first anniversary

A bill to counter computer crimes is stuck in parliament for over a year, illustrating the daunting task facing those who try to modernise laws to take Sri Lanka towards a digital age, officials said Friday. The law was first

Forensics a ‘must’…

Businesses have been told they must gain an understanding of computer forensics if they are to keep pace with the growing level of threat from within the enterprise. Bruce Nikkel, head of the IT investigation and forensics department at UBS,

BDF steps up its game in the area of digital forensics

Members of the Barbados Defence Force have stepped up their game in the fight against computer related crime. Sixteen BDF officers of various ranking recently completed the Digital Forensics Course and they received their certificates at the Barbados Defence Force

Looking for foul play – digital forensics Part 2

What must be proven before charges can be brought against a suspected offender? What are the initial steps carried out when commencing a forensic examination? Ian Kennedy continues his look at computer forensics… More (BCS)

Guidance Software Files For IPO

Pasadena-based Guidance Software, a developer of software used for digital forensics, has filed for an IPO. Guidance, in an SEC filing Friday, said it is looking to raise up to $80M in an IPO on the Nasdaq under the symbol

Cyber crime becoming more organised

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

URI to receive nearly $600,000 to improve forensic research

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

What it’s like to be a computer forensics specialist

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

Forensic toolkit harvests cellphone data

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