Christa: Electronic discovery, or e-discovery, has always required some digital forensic skills as litigators prepare to present electronic data at trial. However, as technology evolves, likewise, the skills needed to identify, collect and analyze the data that’s most relevant … Read more
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Book Review: Forensic Data Collections 2.0
As digital forensic practitioners, the proper collection of digital evidence in a forensic manner is second nature. In many cases, each of us has collected hundreds or even thousands of pieces of media and managed to keep intact the integrity … Read more
E-Discovery Business Takes New Approach to Collecting and Preparing Digital Evidence to Spur Growth
Unique Wire assists service providers, corporations, law firms, and law enforcement agencies with identifying and understanding Digital Intelligence.
Unique Wire, a digital forensics and e-discovery business focused on helping service providers, corporations, law firms, and law enforcement agencies, headquartered … Read more
ICDF2C 2018 – Recap
This article is a recap of some of the main highlights from the ICDF2C conference 2018, which took place in New Orleans, LA, USA from the 10th-12th September.
The program began on Monday 10th September with the usual welcome registration. … Read more
Opinion: Is ISO17025 The Right Standard For Digital Forensics?
by Rich2005
Standardisation is currently the subject of animated discussion among digital forensic examiners worldwide. In this opinion piece, Rich2005 looks at the challenges of the ISO17025 standard for digital forensics and why it might not be the best choice … Read more
Word Forensic Analysis And Compound File Binary Format
by Arman Gungor
Microsoft Word forensic analysis is something digital forensic investigators do quite often for document authentication. Because of the great popularity of Microsoft Office, many important business documents such as contracts and memoranda are created using Word. When … Read more
Analysis Of iOS Notes App
As part of my third year studying Digital Security,Forensics & Ethical Hacking at GCU, I took part in a group research project to study the artifacts created when using the notes app on an iPad Mini, and if they could … Read more
Windows 8: Important Considerations for Computer Forensics and Electronic Discovery
Introduction
Documents identified by computer forensic investigations in civil litigation typically require review and analysis by attorneys to determine if the uncovered evidence could support causes of action such as breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of trade … Read more
Collecting and Processing Bloomberg Data
A few years ago, Bloomberg data may have been relatively unusual, however today we see Bloomberg chat and email data being collected quite frequently. Not a surprise really considering some of the headlines relating to certain Banks and Financial institutions … Read more
689 Published Cases Involving Social Media Evidence (with full case listing)
The torrent of social media evidence continues to grow. In November 2011 we, at X1 Discovery, searched online legal databases of state and federal court decisions across the United States to identify the number of cases from 2010 and through … Read more
Forensic Imaging of Hard Disk Drives- What we thought we knew
By Todd G. Shipley and Bryan Door
(A complete copy of this white paper and its figures and diagrams can be found at www.nfdrtc.net).
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT
Imaging of hard drives has been the main stay of … Read more
Things a Little Birdie Told Me: The Implications of Twitter and other Social Media in E-Discovery
by Elluma Discovery
… Read more Facebook, Twitter, and a growing number of social media sites have taken over our lives. Whether Tweeting about the Kardashians or ranting over the latest brouhaha between Snookie and “The Situation,” we spend an inordinate amount of
Large Scale Fraud Cases And The Issues Surrounding E-Discovery Investigations
First published September 2007
submitted by CY4OR Limited
A recent Report by the Fraud Advisory Panel revealed that the average length of a serious fraud investigation between 2002 and 2006 totalled 33 months, costing the British taxpayer around £100 million … Read more
Learning from Other’s Mistakes: Issues Arising from Electronic Discovery
First published May 2005
by Setec Investigations
http://www.setecinvestigations.com
Computer forensics and the associated electronic evidence and electronic discovery are relatively new to the litigation game. The use of such information is growing steadily and it has become impossible for legal … Read more
Electronic Evidence as the Smoking Gun
First published February 2005
by Henry J. Fasthoff, IV
NOTE: THIS IS ARTICLE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE CONSTRUED AS LEGAL ADVICE.
Electronic communications–particularly email–may contain a treasure trove of evidence in commercial litigation … Read more