26th March 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, March 26 2025
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Read the latest DFIR news – SWGDE calls for faster mobile data preservation, SOLVE-IT proposes a forensic ATT&CK-style framework, SYTECH urges national CSAM threshold reform, and more....

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What’s Happening At Techno Security Wilmington, June 03 – 05 2025

What’s Happening At Techno Security Wilmington, June 03 – 05 2025

25th March 2025

Explore the latest in cybersecurity, digital forensics, eDiscovery, and investigations at Techno East—120+ sessions, hands-on labs, and live CTFs await....read more

Oxygen Remote Explorer v.1.8 Is Now Available

Oxygen Remote Explorer v.1.8 Is Now Available

24th March 2025

Oxygen Forensics' latest update adds remote Slack extraction from Android, new artifact support, and enhanced import, export, and decryption features for more efficient investigations....read more

Oxygen Forensics Helps Clients Take Their Data Strategy To The Next Level

Oxygen Forensics Helps Clients Take Their Data Strategy To The Next Level

21st March 2025

Oxygen Forensics and ModeOne Technologies partner to streamline remote mobile data collection and enhance data analysis workflows....read more

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

Last Call for DIGEV 2004 Web Conference Registrations

Last chance to register for DIGEV 2004, the 1st International Digital Evidence Web Conference. The one-day event takes place online on the 2nd of September (this Thursday), but even if you can’t make the date all presentations will be archived

Defense loses motion in CP case

Montrose County District Court Judge Dennis Friedrich denied a motion Wednesday from defense attorneys to dismiss 19 misdemeanor child exploitation counts against Park Avenue Dance Works co-operator John Ward. At Wednesday’s hearing, David Penrod, a forensic examiner for Computer Forensic

Dozens of spammers, scammers arrested

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft today will announce the arrests of dozens of people nationwide charged with flooding e-mail inboxes with spam and perpetrating computer fraud and other cyber crimes. Many of the cases have their origin in Pittsburgh, where