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Businesses urged to devise digital-forensics plans
News An IAAC guide to digital forensics was first made available in 2005. Firms should put in place forensics plans for incidents that may require computer evidence to be handed over, according to an influential security body.
[December 3, 2008, 16:29]
Bluepipe: A Scalable Architecture for On-the-Spot Digital Forensics
White Papers Traditional digital forensics methods are based on the in-depth examination of computer systems in a lab setting. This paper motivates the need for on-the-spot digital forensics tools that supplement lab methods and discuss the specific user and...
[March 17, 2006, 0:01]
XIRAF - XML-Based Indexing and Querying for Digital Forensics
White Papers This paper describes a novel, XML-based approach towards managing and querying forensic traces extracted from digital evidence. This approach has been implemented in XIRAF, a prototype system for forensic analysis.
[November 4, 2008, 0:01]
IT Forensics: When crime scene investigations go digital
News The concept of digital forensics was originally spawned by law enforcement agencies, which started to realise that traditional forensics techniques, where the focus was on physical evidence such as fingerprints and ballistics traces, was no longer...
[April 24, 2006, 13:30]
iPhone's remote wiping may help crooks cover tracks
News Criminals can remotely destroy incriminating evidence by exploiting security features on the Apple iPhone, a leading digital-forensics expert has warned. The head of the Serious Fraud Office's digital forensics unit, Keith Foggon, cautioned that...
[September 3, 2008, 8:33]
Police enlist AI to help tackle crime
News Looking at how AI techniques can boost digital forensics, the government-funded Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) will examine the potential use of AI in web counter-terrorism surveillance, fighting internet fraud, masking identities...
[November 6, 2008, 6:30]
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]
Compliance - 2b Forensic readiness planning, really, you need to do this.
Blog There is considerable overlap between the two, preserving and recovering damaged data in the event of a disaster requires similar digital forensics skills as those needed to defend (or pursue) a court case (which can itself result from a disaster).
[December 14, 2008, 19:14]
PC sleuths search for Enron's shredded secrets
News As investigators contemplate the Herculean jigsaw puzzle of reassembling shredded paper strips, computer forensics experts are preparing for the comparatively easier task of examining desktop computers, laptops, email servers, back-up tapes and...
[February 5, 2002, 12:00]
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]
Skills not money needed to fight cybercrime
News No wonder we have forensics backlogs of six to 12 months and reluctance on the part of most local forces to launch any new investigations," Harrington said. The study points out that there are very basic and very advanced computer security and...
[May 18, 2004, 16:45]
Digital sleuthing uncovers hacking costs
News Cohen, who both teaches forensics and works on actual cases, stressed that companies need to understand the difficulty, and costs, involved. Each digital detective used decompilers, data recovery programs and other forensic tools to uncover as much...
[March 22, 2001, 13:46]
Internet Forensics review
Reviews A fair amount of Robert Jones's Internet Forensics: Using Digital Evidence to Solve Computer Crime should be familiar to anyone who has lived through the spam wars of the last decade: how to analyse email headers; how to identify spam and its...
[April 4, 2006, 10:10]
Black Hat gears up in Las Vegas
News ISec researchers Chris Palmer, Tim Newsham and Alex Stamos have stated they've found up to six vulnerabilities within Guidance Software's EnCase, a digital forensics program used primarily by US government and law enforcement, prompting swift...
[July 31, 2007, 9:43]
MacLockPick
Downloads MacLockPick II for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux is a fully cross platform tool that allows digital forensics professionals and eDiscovery experts to perform field triage on live computers running a wide variety of operating systems.
[March 25, 2009, 15:00]
Cloud Computing & The Impact On Digital Forensic Investigations
Blog Live digital forensics is a technique that is also currently in its infancy, which CLOIDIFIN will test to establish suitability. Cloud Computing & The Impact On Digital Forensic Investigations CLOIDIFIN is a research project that will highlight the...
[March 6, 2009, 7:34]
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]
Security: The threat within is greater than you think
News Some focus solely on protecting intellectual property from being leaked, while others also perform forensics analysis, digital rights management and security policy management. For more than a decade, corporations have erected digital perimeters to...
[January 12, 2005, 12:40]
World Bank hit by cyberattacks, claims report
News In an email to CNET News.com, a representative for Mandiant, a US-based digital forensics company, confirmed that the World Bank is a client but would not elaborate on the work done on its behalf. Fox said that outside forensics teams have since...
[October 13, 2008, 10:00]
Microsoft seeks spots in 'cool' TV shows
News The software, an advanced TV application with the PC as its hub, will be featured on upcoming shows of CBS's forensics show "CSI," as well as "24" and "The Wire," among others. He made these remarks at the event, which featured an MTV-like video of...
[October 6, 2003, 14:10]
