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

E-mail privacy in the workplace

Even with a well-heeled corporate privacy policy stating that all employee communications may be monitored in the workplace, the legality of e-mail monitoring is not as clear cut as one might think… More (SecurityFocus)

Police team-ups beat Nigeria’s scammers

Globally, Nigeria has become associated with what is known as “advance fee” or 419 fraud. Virtually anyone with an email account will be familiar with this crime, which involves sending emails or faxes to potential victims around the world, sucking

Computer forensics: The new DNA

Within a week of discovering computer equipment in the bombed-out safehouse of slain terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out more than 450 raids targeting followers of al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq. The vital information that led to

Georgia lacks forensic computer specialists

Law enforcement in Georgia is behind in getting the training needed to keep pace with a rise in computer-related crimes, causing delays in cases, some Georgia law enforcement officials said. “We just need more of a commitment from law enforcement,

Philippine National Police gets forensic hardware from US

The Philippine National Police (PNP) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (cidg) received on Friday eight-million pesos’ worth of computer forensic hardware and software from the United States Department of State Anti-terrorism Assistance Program… More (inq7.net)

“MANDIANT Web Historian v1.3” Forensic Software released

MANDIANT has announced an upgrade to their popular MANDIANT Web Historian software. Web Historian assists users in reviewing websites (URLs) that are stored in the history files of the most commonly used browsers including: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape,

Five Things UBS Did Right, And Five Things to Improve Upon

The government’s forensics investigator spent more than three years pouring over UBS’ records and analyzing its network. in preparation for the computer sabotage trial. Here are his top five lists for what the company did right after the attack, and

Cops and robbers find new uses for mobile phones

Mobile phones are changing the lives of both criminals and the investigators that hunt them, mobile phone security experts said at the Infosecurity conference held in New York on Wednesday. With constantly improving storage and processing power, a mobile phone

E-crime centre to fight cyber-crims in NZ

New Zealand Police plan to set up a high-tech crime reporting centre, in partnership with other government agencies, such as CCIP (Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection) and DIA (Department of Internal Affairs), says Maarten Kleintjes, head of the New Zealand

AFS becomes authorised CCE training and testing centre

Australian Forensic Services (AFS) has recently obtained the exclusive rights to provide CCE training in Australia. The CCE certification is rapidly growing in size and recognition with over 400 Certified Computer Examiners worldwide and an additional 200 applicants currently in

Forensic tools 2006

Managing security incidents is essentially a problem of forensics. Peter Stephenson tests three broad groups of products that will enable organisations of all sizes to respond effectively to network attacks. In this group test, we decided to break the mold.

Belgian computer crime rises by 45pc

The federal computer crime unit registered a 45 percent increase in the amount of internet-based crimes last year compared with 2004. A large majority of the crimes involved fraud, news agency Belga reported on Tuesday… More (Expatica)

Enforcing Computer Crime Laws: UK Must Learn From Japan

The number of people arrested in Japan for attacking computers with spyware has doubled over the past four years, the FT reported yesterday. According to a report published by the Japanese government, a total of 116 people were arrested in