Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 04 2025

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Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....

Collaborative Forensics: Overcoming Challenges In Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

Collaborative Forensics: Overcoming Challenges In Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations

Discover expert strategies for cross-border investigations in Exterro’s on-demand webinar....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, July 30 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – Epstein video analysis by ex-FBI experts, stress warning signs in forensics, Raspberry Pi toolkit “Toby,” PDF tampering risks, SWGDE timing advance guidance, and more....read more

S21 Spotlight Transcriber – Slow, Manual Transcription Or Insecure Online Service? There’s A Better Way.

S21 Spotlight Transcriber – Slow, Manual Transcription Or Insecure Online Service? There’s A Better Way.

Tired of risky online transcription tools? Discover a faster, fully offline alternative built for secure investigations....read more

Tracking PCs anywhere on the Net

A University of California researcher, Tadayoshi Kohno, says he has found a way to identify computer hardware remotely, a technique that could potentially unmask anonymous Web surfers by bypassing some common security techniques. In his paper Kohno mentioned possible forensics

Testifying in a Computer Crimes Case

As an IT professional and working network administrator, you may find yourself called upon to testify as a victim or witness (i.e., a representative of a company whose network is victimized) in a computer-related crime. Another possibility is that you

The value of sleuthing skills in IT security

In criminal investigations, forensic evidence is often used to prove that a person was at a particular place at a certain time, or even to show an irrefutable connection with a crime that has been committed. In the world of

Are you sitting next to a criminal?

Computer criminals could be working next to you every day, yet be stealing from your business. A survey carried out on 201 companies by the National High Tech Crime Unit, found that the impact of hi-tech crime in 2003 reached

Computer sleuths dig deep to solve crimes

John Mallery says his current job as a computer forensic expert has some parallels to his former calling as a comedian, juggler and knife thrower. “I’ve thrown knives around my wife. If I’m not in shape and I don’t practice,

‘Unit needed’ to tackle net porn

UK Police want a new body to be set up to investigate internet child pornography. It comes as new figures show arrests and convictions for downloading such images have quadrupled in two years. Home Office figures, revealed by children’s charity

New Tool May Aid Digital Investigators

For some University of Florida (UF) researchers, CSI means “Computer Scam Investigators.” The team is armed with a new tool – so-called “process forensics” – that combines intrusion detection with digital fingerprinting to nab wily hackers… More (Sci-Tech Today)

More investigators needed to handle computer crime in Maine (US)

When it comes to computer crimes, especially against children, those in law enforcement should not be trying to do more with less. But that is exactly what the Maine Computer Crimes Task Force is doing these days, according to Col.

Criminal IT: What you can do to help the fight against cybercrime

Neil Barrett gives some insight into how IT workers can help law enforcement and expert witnesses like himself when prosecuting cybercriminals. My day job is a rather unusual one; I’m a computer expert witness, principally in criminal prosecutions and primarily

Fraud Prevention on Top of Agenda for Corporate Boards in 2005

Computer forensics have played a lead role in fraud investigations for some time. In the coming year, look for the emergence of real-time, diagnostic software that will enable corporations to detect “red flags” of potential accounting fraud or other types

Feds square off with organized cyber crime

At the RSA Conference on Thursday Ronald Plesco, counsel to the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance, a computer forensics organization established by the FBI and private industry, pointed to the trend in recent years of spammers building networks of compromised

Investigators uncover dismal data disposal

An investigation into the disposal of computer equipment has uncovered psychological reports on school-children, confidential company data and even details of an illicit affair on hard drives that should have been wiped clean. Universities, schools and global businesses are routinely

USA’s Sixth Cyber Lab Opened in Silicon Valley

The FBI calls them Regional Computer Forensics Laboratories, or RCFLs. Their specialty? The cyber equivalent of dusting for fingerprints: finding evidence of criminal and terrorist activity on PCs, laptops, cell phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, PDAs, DVD recorders, and other

Book review of Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery

Harlan Carvey is a Windows security instructor who created his own 2-day, hands-on course in Windows incident response and forensic investigations. This book shares some of Carvey’s extensive knowledge and expertise in recognizing and responding to attacks on Windows systems

ProDiscover 4.0 Adds Perl Scripting and Expanded Volatile Data Capability

Technology Pathways, LLC has announced ProDiscover Incident Response 4.0, with support for Perl scripting and expanded capabilities for volatile data capture and analysis. With support for Perl version 5, information security and cyber-crime investigators can develop scripts to search and

Taking a bite out of cybercrime

The call sounded like an advertisement for a credit card security plan. Someone in London had purchased a piece of Americana, a toy tractor from Ohio, with the credit card number of an Old Colony Road resident. Capital One credit