30th September 2026

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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

Grant will boost Vt.’s Internet crime center

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has secured a federal grant to help a local college and Vermont police fight identity theft and other crimes committed through computers, the Internet and digital technology. The $650,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice

MANDIANT Releases First Response v.1.1.1

MANDIANT has announced that it has upgraded its free MANDIANT First Response (MFR) software in response to an advisory from researchers at Symantec’s Vulnerability Research program. MANDIANT responded quickly to upgrade the MFR tool to protect against a Denial of

Hitting the High Points of the New EDD Rules

The last time the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to deal with electronic evidence, eight-track tapes were the hot technology, the Internet and cell phones were the stuff of science fiction and computers were room-sized behemoths owned by

TSK 2.07 Released

From Brian Carrier: Version 2.07 of TSK is now available in source and Win32 executable form: www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/ There are a lot of updates and bug fixes. The summarized list is below. The executive summary is that there are new flags

Legal Tech Expert E-Mails His Wish List to Santa

I’ve been a good boy this year. I spent all my time helping lawyers and judges with electronic data discovery (EDD) and studying really, really hard about electronically stored information (ESI), data harvest, spoliation, de-duplication, meet-and-confer, search tools, forms of

Agencies join forces to fight computer crime

Computer crime is on the rise everywhere. Few police departments have the resources to do much about it. That may soon change in central Virginia. It used to be a police or sheriff’s department would get just a few computer

Hong Kong computer forensic lab stays step ahead

The jailing this week of self-styled “Big Crook” Chan Nai-ming for downloading and distributing movies on the Internet has put Hong Kong at the forefront of the worldwide fight against digital piracy. And the message Friday from senior superintendent Daniel

Organised crime gangs lure IT graduates

Organised criminals are starting to recruit IT students, according to a new report from security vendor McAfee. The revelation came as experts called for a greater focus on ethics in technology courses. The McAfee Virtual Criminology Report into organised crime

Crime surge sparks calls for internet Interpol

Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Kaspersky Labs, has called for greater international law enforcement co-operation to combat the growing threat from cybercrime. Interpol, which helps national police forces to work together, has a financial and hi-tech crime sub-directorate

New lab to find fraudsters’ computer secrets in New Zealand

Corporate investigation company Paragon NZ is setting up what will be the country’s largest forensic computer laboratory at its Auckland headquarters. Paragon director Ron McQuilter said when it opened for business in February it would be bigger than any of

Alabama computer forensics duo cracks high-profile hacker attacks

The suspect’s constant keystrokes inside an underground nuclear laboratory in New Mexico uncovered personal photographs, voice mails and secret passwords. The worried victims, a rock star and his Playmate wife, called their Los Angeles attorney. A pair of investigators worked

PSC to offer computer forensics course

Prairie State College (Chicago area, US) will offer a class this spring that will keep students on the cutting edge of the Internet age. Shelly Hokanson, assistant professor and course coordinator for information technology, said Prairie State is one of

Canadian legal community mulls impact of U.S. e-discovery rules

The United States implemented several changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure last Friday that could make waves for Canadian IT staff working not only in law, but in all industries. Electronic discovery (or e-discovery) governance has generally been

The basics of how digital forensics tools work

I’ve noticed there is a fair amount of confusion about how forensics tools work behind the scenes. If you’ve taken a course in digital forensics this will probably be “old hat” for you. If on the other hand, you’re starting

Guidance Software (GUID) Sees IPO Price of $12.50-$14.50

In an amended S-1 filing, Guidance Software (Nasdaq: GUID) indicated it sees an IPO price of $12.50-$14.50 per share on 5 million shares. The company plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “GUID.” The offering is being made

Korea releases guidelines on cyber crime

South Korea early this month announced its first digital evidence process guideline, which aims to identify standard procedures that can better help fight cyber crimes. Called Standard Digital Evidence Process Guideline, the study is the first in the country and