13th September 2024

Magnet One Now Available – Experience The Future Of Digital Investigations
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Video Formats And Conversion: A New Blog Series By Amped Software

Video Formats And Conversion: A New Blog Series By Amped Software

12th September 2024

David Spreadborough from Amped Software introduces a new blog series on video formats and conversion....read more

Detego Global Partners With Better Direct For U.S.-Wide DFIR Rollout

Detego Global Partners With Better Direct For U.S.-Wide DFIR Rollout

12th September 2024

Detego Global partners with Better Direct to make their advanced digital forensics and incident response tools more available across all 50 states and U.S. Federal offices abroad....read more

Share What You’re Seeing In DFIR By Taking Part In Magnet Forensics’ State Of Enterprise DFIR Survey

Share What You’re Seeing In DFIR By Taking Part In Magnet Forensics’ State Of Enterprise DFIR Survey

12th September 2024

Magnet Forensics' State of Enterprise DFIR survey is now open! Don't miss this opportunity to share your insights and help others in the field....read more

Detectives Tainted Hard Drive, Expert Claims

BENTONVILLE, USA – Evidence on the hard drive of a murdered man’s computer was damaged after police seized the machine, a computer forensics expert testified Thursday. After Howard was murdered in September 1999, police used information from his hard drive

New Paper: Is There a Need for Industry Control?

A very thought provoking article from Nick Furneaux of CSITech entitled “Is There a Need for Industry Control?” has been added to our Papers & Articles page and can also be viewed directly here.

UK Police forced to turn away e-crime victims

UK Police are having to turn down requests to investigate computer crime from businesses due to a lack of resources, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit said last week. Mick Deats, deputy head of the unit, said the complex, time-consuming nature

Ibas buys computer forensics rival Vogon

Data recovery and computer forensics firm Ibas announced plans Monday to buy its main European competitor, UK-based Vogon International. The deal is based on an “earn-out” model, which specifies a minimum price of £4m ($7.5m) and a maximum of £9m

The two-edged sword: Legal computer forensics and open source

Ryan Purita of Totally Connected Security is one of the leading computer forensic experts in private practice in Canada. A GNU/Linux enthusiast, Purita often prefers open source tools. However, he frequently uses proprietary ones as well. The proprietary tools, he

New, smarter generation of Internet crooks

“I work in the fraud dept. for a well known US company, and have access to hundreds of CCs (credit card numbers) on a daily basis. All I’m looking for is an easy way to make some money and stay

Police surf in search of criminals

Police and prosecutors are awaiting the results of a forensics shakedown of the computer used at work by Richard Salewicz of Noblesville, who was arrested April 1 for soliciting sex over the Internet from an undercover officer. Noblesville (US) Police

New versions of TSK and Autopsy now available

New versions of both tools are available. Both have minor bug fixes from the new 2.00 TSK features. There is one bug that impacts split image users, so everyone should upgrade TSK. Autopsy also has a new feature that shows

To catch a (digital) thief?

Those investigating crime have long understood the value of evidence. In its most literal sense, evidence is “that which demonstrates that a fact is so”. By acquiring evidence we build a picture of what happened, how it came to be

Web Browser Forensics, Part 1

Electronic evidence has often shaped the outcome of high-profile civil law suits and criminal investigations ranging from theft of intellectual property and insider trading that violates SEC regulations to proving employee misconduct resulting in termination of employment under unfavorable circumstances.

Hi-tech crime costs UK plc £2.4bn

According to a survey for the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), almost nine out of 10 firms suffered some kind of IT-based crime last year. A major risk was action taken by disgruntled employees, often working with crooks on the

Step-by-Step Incident Response

When a critical enterprise server is breached, a well thought-out incident response plan will help you contain damage, speed up service restoration, and collect forensic information. If you have reason to believe that a system has been compromised, either by

Another Look at Log Files

Marcus Ranum architected the first commercial firewall in 1990. He founded Network Flight Recorder Security, the company responsible for the first network forensics tool. And last summer at the Usenix conference, during a course he was teaching on log file

RCFL network plans expansion in 2005

WASHINGTON, D.C.- The FBI is poised to expand the country’s premier computer forensics laboratory network starting in May, according to Assistant Director Kerry E. Haynes, Operational Technology Division. Additional Regional Computer Forensic Laboratories (RCFLs) are scheduled to open in Portland,

UK centre to tackle net paedophiles planned

A unit to protect children in the UK from internet paedophiles is being set up by the Home Office. About 100 staff, including police and child welfare experts will join the Centre for Child Protection on the Internet next April.

Court helps Ryanair trace staff pilots who criticised on-line

An Irish judge has awarded Ryanair an injunction to prevent the destruction of web site user data in a court battle over the identities of its pilots who criticised the airline’s working practices in an on-line forum for Ryanair pilots,