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Berla Introduces iVe 5.0, Adding Support For More Than 38,500 Additional Vehicles

Berla Introduces iVe 5.0, Adding Support For More Than 38,500 Additional Vehicles

30th September 2026

Introducing iVe Generation 5 from Berla: Discover how expanded coverage for more than 38,500 additional vehicles, new acquisition capabilities, modular hardware, and integrated guidance are advancing vehicle forensics....read more

Roadblocks Ahead! Navigating The Major Issues Of Mobile Forensics

Roadblocks Ahead! Navigating The Major Issues Of Mobile Forensics

29th September 2026

Magnet Forensics' Christopher Vance tackles the biggest roadblocks in mobile forensics, from keeping a seized phone isolated, powered and safe from reboot timers to handling 1TB devices and proprietary data....read more

Belkasoft Releases Belkasoft X v2.12, Adding Offline Translation And AI-Assisted Database Analysis

Belkasoft Releases Belkasoft X v2.12, Adding Offline Translation And AI-Assisted Database Analysis

29th September 2026

Belkasoft X 2.12 brings offline AI-powered translation, smarter SQLite analysis, expanded mobile and Windows evidence support, and more flexible acquisition workflows....read more

WinHex, X-Ways Forensics, X-Ways Investigator 14.4 released

WHAT’S NEW? * Ability to extract e-mail messages and attachments from AOL PFC files. (forensic license only) Note that if these files have no extension, only a signature check will identify them as PFC files. * Can now extract embedded

Computer cop receives award

The New Britain police department’s computer crime expert was stumped. The state police’s lab couldn’t help. Even the FBI didn’t have the answer. But Lt. James Wardwell kept searching, trying to find some way to infiltrate a stack of erased

NZ IT practices inadequate for forensic evidence

The second annual New Zealand Computer Crime and Security Survey has revealed New Zealand organisations are ill-equipped to preserve computer forensic evidence. The University of Otago conducted survey – which aims to raise the level of security awareness and determine

Court systems ill-equipped to understand e-crime

Computer forensics investigator Bryan Sartin says court systems are ill-equipped to understand e-crime, even at a basic level. Here he describes a recent case of a hacker who stole customer information from a retail system. The case didn’t play out

Mobile Phone Forensic Course Available From Guidance Software

Guidance Software, Inc. today announced the availability of its introductory level mobile phone forensic course. The hands-on course introduces investigators to Neutrino™, the company’s mobile phone acquisition tool, and demonstrates how the product is used to perform comprehensive analysis and

Bloggers Held Under New Thailand Computer Crime Law

If you thought Germany’s new computer crime laws were strict, try posting an offensive comment on the Web in Thailand. According to the independent newspaper Prachatai, at least one person is being detained in the Bangkok Remand Prison for crimes

Understanding IM as Evidence

Instant messaging is an increasingly popular medium that’s sometimes an important link in the prosecution’s case. As with every new communication tool, it brings new challenges for criminal procedure. This multilayered technology provides the convenience of e-mail coupled with the

Justice in the Wild Wild Web

The Internet can often seem like a threatening place where users are susceptible to fraud, identity theft and sexual predators, but law enforcement at all levels of government have been attempting to change that perception. “At the turn of the

Digital detectives discern Photoshop fakery

Spotting inconsistencies in pictures is a major aspect for computer forensics. “One helpful aspect of digital files is that they leave records, whether you know it or not,” says Nasir Memon, a computer science professor at Polytechnic University in New

Call for Papers: Small Scale Digital Device Forensics Journal

The SSDD Forensics Journal invites papers for the 2nd issue, which will be published in January 2008. Papers on topics in the areas listed below as well as outstanding papers on other topics related to small scale digital device forensics

Mobile Forensics World 2008 Conference Announced

Mobile Forensics World 2008 Conference May 8-10, 2008Chicago, Illinois, USA An event for Federal, State and Local LE Forensic Specialists, Corporate and Private Forensic Examiners, Industry Leaders, and Academic Researchers of Mobile Forensics Contact Rick @ [email protected] for details.

IPhone Tantalizes, Frustrates Forensics Experts

Technophiles may love the iPhone, but you criminals? Watch out. The iPhone may reveal more about your misdeeds than you realize. Derrick Donnelly, chief technology officer of Blackbag Technologies, a Silicon Valley-based company specializing in Apple forensic solutions, is tempted

Online Utica College

(Sponsored Review) Utica College, based in Central New York in the United States, provides regionally accredited Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree programs in economic crime investigation, anti-fraud and computer crime control. An independent, private institution founded in 1946 by Syracuse University,

Unit solves crimes electronically

Detective Jonathan Kennedy of the Prince William County Police Department’s Computer Forensics Unit said it’s satisfying to find something that helps put bad guys away. “You do get a little rush when you find what you’re looking for on whatever

Publication of Hachoir project version 1.0

Hachoir is a framework for binary file manipulation: file format recognition, metadata extraction, searching files in any binary stream (forensics), viewing file content with human representation, etc. It’s composed of many components…Programs:· hachoir-metadata: fault tolerant metadata extraction;· hachoir-subfile: search subfiles

CSFA Test Vouchers

CyberSecurity Institute will be giving away five vouchers for the CyberSecurity Forensic Analyst certification. The vouchers will be good through 2008. http://www.cybersecurityforensicanalyst.com/Interested persons need to send the following information to [email protected]: NameMailing addressAgency/companyYears forensic analysis experience Regards, Steve Hailey