24th January 2025

Magnet Forensics Releases State Of Enterprise DFIR 2025 Report
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Forensic Focus Digest, January 24 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, January 24 2025

24th January 2025

Read our digest of the latest content on the Forensic Focus website, including news, interviews, webinars, articles, podcasts, and more....read more

MD-Series Release Note Highlights: 2024 Q4 Review

MD-Series Release Note Highlights: 2024 Q4 Review

24th January 2025

GMDSOFT’s Q4 updates deliver enhanced device support, innovative features, and expanded capabilities across the MD-Series....read more

Inside The Minds Of CSAM Investigators With Prof. Patrick Brady

Inside The Minds Of CSAM Investigators With Prof. Patrick Brady

23rd January 2025

Professor Patrick Brady, a criminal justice and criminology professor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, joins the Forensic Focus Podcast to share his research on the mental health challenges faced by digital forensic investigators, particularly those handling child sexual abuse material (CS...read more

Sault College (ON, Canada) to host computer forensics workshop

Sault College (Marie, ON, Canada) will present a computer forensics workshop for IT professionals from June 13 to 17. James Lewis, site director for the Centre for Systems Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA) at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor,

Keyboard cops

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

CFP: DFRWS — Extended Deadline

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

An Inside Look at a Disk Recovery Service

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

Used hard drives betray company secrets

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,

EnCase Device Configuration Overlay Data Acquisition Weakness

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

New Paper: The Forensic Chain of Evidence Model

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

Online crime – new tools, old tricks

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

Montana agencies left private information on discarded computers

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

e-Cops playing catch-up in Oz

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

eBay cybercrime chief tells UK to wise-up

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

An elite force takes on the dark side of computing

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

New Article: The Mobile Forensic Platform

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