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Linux tool speeds up police computer forensics
News Australian university students have developed a Linux-based data-forensics tool to help police churn through a growing backlog of computer-related criminal investigations. The tool, developed by students at the School of Computing and Information...
[March 6, 2008, 11:36]
Using Computer Forensics When Investigating System Attacks
White Papers This paper explains how to conduct a computer forensic investigation of a system in response to the suspicion, or actual occurrence, of an attack on that system. It discusses computer forensic analysis at different levels and provides information...
[November 9, 2005, 0:00]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback The police need computer forensics experts, security audit professionals etc - they do not need "ethical" hackers or pen testers. Pen Testers who think they know about computer forensics without specialist training are delusional.
[October 13, 2005, 1:50]
Compliance White Paper
White Papers Digital investigations utilizing computer forensics are an essential part of this enforcement. This white paper reviews key information security laws and regulations that mandate computer forensics for compliance.
[September 27, 2005, 3:00]
Businesses urged to devise digital-forensics plans
News Firms should put in place forensics plans for incidents that may require computer evidence to be handed over, according to an influential security body. The Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC) published a report on Tuesday that aims to...
[December 3, 2008, 16:29]
BCS thinktank to help protect 2012 Olympics
News The British Computer Society (BCS) Cybercrime Forensics Specialist Group will focus on new developments in cybercrime forensics — the use of scientifically proven methods to gather, process and interpret digital evidence for criminal investigations.
[December 16, 2008, 17:21]
Analysis of USB Flash Drives in a Virtual Environment
White Papers The paper discusses the use of virtual environments in the analysis of USB flash drives in computer forensics investigations. After briefly introducing general concepts of a virtual environment and software tools the paper shows how this approach...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Sacked worker blames porn on malware
News Farr even retained a computer forensics specialist who concluded: "No-one had intentionally loaded the list of websites on the computer. Farr blamed malicious software for bookmarking pornographic websites on his work computer, an argument that was...
[October 3, 2007, 17:12]
Forensics firm warns of 'the inside job'
News The simplest thing to do is to get a job there," says David Litchfield, senior security analyst at Arca Systems Inc, a British computer forensics firm called in by businesses to gather evidence of computer crime from hacking and data theft, to...
[July 20, 1999, 10:51]
Army deploys PC forensics technology in Iraq
News Simon Janes, operations manager for computer forensics at data recovery specialist Ibas UK, which provided the army with a "mobile forensics laboratory", said one of the most important requirements for the recovered data was to guarantee that it...
[September 29, 2003, 15:45]
PC sleuths search for Enron's shredded secrets
News In a sign that computer evidence will figure prominently in the Enron investigation, Andersen last week hired Texas-based computer forensics company ASR Data Acquisition and Analysis, to recover deleted or overwritten digital data.
[February 5, 2002, 12:00]
High-tech cops hit back against ISP claims
News It is surprising that the few trained officers we do have do not have more support from, for example, computer forensics specialists," wrote Hutty on behalf of LINX, which represents more than 140 ISPs.
[April 5, 2004, 14:45]
One in three UK companies have been hacked
News Richard Stagg, a computer security consultant who investigates cases of computer hacking for UK computer forensics firm IRM, does not find the results particularly surprising. To coincide with the results of the survey, the CMA has launched a new...
[April 3, 2001, 17:11]
Skills not money needed to fight cybercrime
News The study points out that there are very basic and very advanced computer security and forensics courses, but there are none aimed at the "mass market", which is where the skills are most in demand. No wonder we have forensics backlogs of six to 12...
[May 18, 2004, 16:45]
Copyright act gags programmers
News When they started to arrest people and threaten researchers, I decided the legal risk was not worth it," said Fred Cohen, a well-known security consultant and a professor of digital forensics, who took his evidence-gathering tool--dubbed Forensix...
[September 7, 2001, 9:04]
Police culture crippling cybercrime fight
News Noble said the funding available doesn't even stretch as far as providing him with a car, despite the fact he has to visit sites all over Surrey, and much of his budget goes on hiring outside expertise such as forensics companies, due to a lack of...
[January 26, 2005, 12:30]
Police in talks over pocket PC-crime detection tool
News Use of the tool could minimise the numbers of seized machines and help officers without digital forensics training to uncover evidence on a hard drive. The continuing growth in the size modern hard drives means it is becoming increasingly important...
[June 4, 2009, 8:37]
Security comes of age at RSA conference
News An explanation of the computer forensics software used to decrypt Richard Reid's laptop, a version of which works across networks in real time The RSA Conference is the largest computer security and encryption conference in the world.
[February 21, 2002, 10:40]
Security consultants' rates rocket
News Skills such as penetration testing, computer forensics and ethical hacking are also increasingly in demand. Chapman said this security 'gold rush' is resulting in packed classrooms for courses such as CISSP (certified information systems security...
[October 5, 2005, 9:50]
Universities highlight IT forensics boom
News Universities offering postgraduate courses for IT professionals claim to be seeing increasing interest in computer forensics skills, both from employers and from applicants. Dr J Philip Evans, who runs the centre for research into information...
[April 24, 2007, 17:08]
