RAID Forensics: Handling Unknown Configurations In DFIR Investigations

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Unlabelled RAID drives, no documentation, and a ticking evidence integrity clock: here’s how investigators can avoid the most common RAID forensics mistakes before they compromise a case....

The New Age Of Investigations: Cellebrite’s Journey To Genesis 

The New Age Of Investigations: Cellebrite’s Journey To Genesis 

Cellebrite Genesis brings purpose-built agentic AI into the investigative workflow, helping agencies surface leads faster while keeping investigators in control....read more

Atola Insight Forensic 5.8 Has Been Released. What’s New?

Atola Insight Forensic 5.8 Has Been Released. What’s New?

Atola Technology’s Insight Forensic 5.8 update introduces selective logical imaging of files with detected artifacts, helping investigators extract key evidence into L01 format faster without waiting for a full drive image....read more

Magnet Forensics Invites You To Take Part In The Digital Investigations In Public Safety Survey!

Magnet Forensics Invites You To Take Part In The Digital Investigations In Public Safety Survey!

Digital evidence is reshaping public safety investigations - take Magnet Forensics’ Digital Investigations in Public Safety survey to share where workflows are slowing down, help shape future best practices, and get early access to the findings....read more

Books give in-depth look into cybercrime

From M. E. Kabay’s newsletter at Network World… The fall 2006 semester has begun at Norwich University and I’ll be teaching “Cybercrime and Cyberlaw” with my colleague Adjunct Professor Julie Tower-Pierce. Readers of this column may be interested in two

Cyber Crime: The Wild West, Online

Forget about breaking and entering, aggravated assault and armed robbery. Cyber crime is taking over. While most of us use computers to work, shop, play games, book vacations, or do banking transactions, a new breed of criminal uses the same

CyberSpeak August 27, 2006

Two Former Federal Agents Talk About Computer Forensics, Network Security and Computer Crime… "Back from vacation. This week we talk with Special Agent David Farquhar from the Federal Bureau of Investigations about his recent successful botnet case in Seattle Washington.

KoreLogic Wins Digital Forensic Research Workshop Contest

Klayton Monroe and Jay Smith of KoreLogic Security were key members of the team announced as winners of the 2006 File Carving Challenge at the 6th Annual Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS). Challenge participants were asked to develop new tools

Spanish cybercrime on the rise

Online fraud in Spain experienced a year-on-year growth of 50 percent in the first four months of 2006, the Computer Crime Research Center reports. Although cybercrime may not be viewed as a pressing concern in Spain, according to some sources,

Cops follow texting trail

Text messages, archived in cell phones, are now among the routine array of clues that detectives seek: At the very onset of an investigation, they can help finger a suspect quickly. In cases of missing or abducted people, they can

CY4OR invest in Advanced Forensic Audio & Visual Suite

Computer Forensic company CY4OR has increased its capacity to analyse audio and visual footage in response to a weighty demand for the service. The analysis suite has been developed and expanded to include the most comprehensive technology available on the

2007 Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

The ADFSL 2007 Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law will beheld in Arlington, Virginia USA on April 18-20, 2007 and is calling forpapers and proposals in, or related to, the following areas. 1) Digital forensics curriculum2) Cyber law curriculum3)

DC3 Digital Forensics Challenge

Do you or someone you know have what it takes to meet our Challenge? The Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) has created it’s first Digital Forensics Challenge. This Challenge is open to any and all U.S. citizens in

And you thought RAID was a challenge…

What began as a home improvement project culminated in a system called Cleversafe. For companies and government agencies trying to secure networked data, it offers a simple way to store digital documents and other files in slices that can be

Organized crime eyes online gamers

Online gamers are thought to be a new target for fraudsters and organized crime, according to one industry specialist. Microsoft engineer Dave Weinstein claims that hackers can use Trojan horses to install keyloggers on systems to gain access to a

U.K. Spammer Sentenced

A U.K. teen was sentenced to a two-month curfew after pleading guilty to sending about five million spam e-mails. The 18-year-old admitted that this act constituted a violation of Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act. A U.K. insurance firm,

Downloading: the new work theft

Until now, stealing from the company usually involved the odd piece of stationery or personal photocopying. But a conviction for downloading on the company computer has highlighted a new type of employment theft. Downloading files on the company computer might

Microsoft offers one-click police report via IM

Users of Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger in the United Kingdom can click a new button in the chat application to contact police with reports of suspicious behavior and instances of inappropriate sexual conduct online… More (news.com)

DOD eyes new forensics

The Defense Department issued a challenge to coders in an effort to get help in computer forensics and data analysis. Contestants will compete to uncover and recover digital data that’s been hidden or damaged. “They will be dealing with all

Version 2.0 of StegAlyzerAS and StegAlyzerSS released

Backbone Security’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC) has released version 2.0 of StegAlyzerAS (Steganography Analyzer Artifact Scanner) and StegAlyzerSS (Steganography Analyzer Signature Scanner). The new versions have significant new improvements including the ability to scan images of seized storage