13th September 2024

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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

Feds invite comment on Internet wiretaps

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday launched a public comment period on its plan to compel Internet broadband and VoIP providers to open their networks up to easy surveillance by law enforcement agencies. More (Security Focus)

Seminar on criminal investigations in Goa, October 9th

A two-day seminar on ‘Crime investigation – modern techniques’ will be inaugurated at the Goa International Centre, on October 9. The inaugural session of the seminar will have a plenary lecture on ‘Computer crimes and cyber forensics’ delivered by the

Forensics gains credibility at Purdue

Chris Marsico, a graduate student, is using this semester to focus on the forensic possibilities of devices like iPODs. Just this summer, a group of car thieves in the UK was arrested, due in part to evidence discovered on an

Digital Investigation – Issue 3

From Matthew Smaldon at Elsevier: “I would like to notify you that the table of contents of the third issue of Digital Investigation is now available at http://www.digitalinvestigation.net. We are pleased to be able to offer two articles from this

Forensic Focus call for papers

The Forensic Focus “papers and articles” section http://www.forensicfocus.com/computer-forensics-papers.php is now online and we’re actively looking for contributions. If you would like to submit a paper or article for publication at Forensic Focus please mail me at admin@forensicfocus.com, thank you. Jamie–

Mobile threat to company data exposed by security experts

Companies must be more vigilant about employees using mobile devices – such as iPod music players and personal digital assistants (PDAs) – at work, security experts warned today. A computer forensics study into the latest Mini iPod, conducted by corporate

Peterson Testimony Turns to Computer Data

Testimony in Scott Peterson’s murder trial returned to what investigators found in his computers as prosecutors try to prove Peterson researched the San Francisco Bay before dumping his pregnant wife’s body there… More (Sun Herald)

New download: A National Research and Development Agenda (ISTS)

Law Enforcement Tools and Technologies for Investigating Cyber Attacks: A National Research and Development Agenda. This study is the culmination of a multi-year research effort by the Technical Analysis Group at the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS). In this

E-crime and computer evidence conference (ECCE) 2005

ECCE 2005 will consider aspects of digital evidence in all types of criminal activity, including timelines, methods of evidence deposition, use of computers for court presentation, system vulnerabilities, crime prevention etc. ECCE 2005 is an international conference and will be

NSRL and Recent Cryptographic News

The NSRL staff have received questions about the announcement of a SHA-0 collision at the CRYPTO 2004 conference, as well as other collisions. NIST staff from the Computer Security Division were in attendance, and the statements here are meant to

Arcadia PD has own computer forensics specialist

Detective Scott Elenberger started the Arcadia Police Department’s computer forensics program by building a computer out of spare parts from home. Now, after about three years of training and building a high- tech computer lab, he’s retrieving digital evidence that’s

Paper: Steganography for the Computer Forensics Examiner

“An Overview of Steganography for the Computer Forensics Examiner” by Gary C. Kessler Abstract Steganography is the art of covered or hidden writing. The purpose of steganography is covert communication-to hide the existence of a message from a third party.

Ashcroft wins Internet wiretap system

U.S. regulators last month ruled tentatively in favor of an FBI and Justice Department proposal that would compel Internet broadband and VoIP providers to open their networks up to easy surveillance by law enforcement agencies. At issue is the 1994

PivX Solutions Announces Computer Forensics Partnership Agreement

PivX Solutions, Inc. has announced a partner agreement to expand the company’s nationwide computer forensic services by partnering with SuperGeeks, a computer consulting company in Hawaii.Under the agreement, PivX will be the exclusive provider of computer forensic expert witness and