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...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
WinHex
Downloads WinHex is a universal hexadecimal editor, particularly helpful in the realm of computer forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security. An advanced tool for everyday and emergency use: inspect and edit all kinds of files...
[February 1, 2008, 12:25]
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.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
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]
Election Sparks Calls For Cybercrime Minister
News It would be good for enforcing regulations and legislation," said Chris Watson, a former policeman and senior investigation manager for digital forensics company IBAS. Tony Blair's decision to call a general election on 5 May has sparked a debate...
[April 6, 2005, 13:30]
New Linux Worm 'Adore' Arrives
News It seems to be a variant of the Ramen worm, said David Dittrich, security administrator for the University of Washington and an expert on digital forensics and hacking tools. The third Linux virus in almost as many months hit the Internet this week.
[April 5, 2001, 9:06]
Vista Drive Encryption
Talkback Digital Forensics Practitioner Simon is correct in advocation a network based approach to forensics as this is transparent to the user community and allows the forensic investigators to seize a system at the appropriate time; i.e when the system...
[November 28, 2006, 12:47]
IT Pros Called To Become Boys In Blue
News The recommendations follow findings earlier this year that only 240 people were qualified to work in digital forensics and evidence recovery. IT professionals could soon be asked to volunteer their services to police the Internet.
[December 1, 2004, 16:45]
NSA Attempting To Design Crack-proof Computer
News While nothing is certain in security, University of New Haven's Professor of Digital Forensics Investigation Fred Cohen said VMware's idea seems to be a good one. Software emulation firm VMware announced it has teamed up with researchers at the US...
[February 2, 2001, 8:38]
Forensics Firms Clean Up Through User Ignorance
News Companies are lining the pockets of information-recovery experts by ignoring warnings and failing to back up data, a data forensics company said on Tuesday. Carmichael-Jones said that digital attacks could be launched from almost anywhere in the...
[May 10, 2005, 15:30]
New Report Should Help Police Get To Evidence Hidden In Handhelds
News The study was sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and was meant to complement tougher tests being developed as part of the Computer Forensics Tool Testing project -- a joint effort of NIST, the National Institute for Justice and law...
[September 30, 2004, 12:15]
ObjectVideo Forensics: Activity-Based Video Indexing And Retrieval For Physical Security Applications
White Papers This paper presents an architecture and methodology for high-speed activity-based digital video indexing and retrieval for physical security applications. State of the art computer vision algorithms detect objects in real-time video and determine...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Secure Audit Logs To Support Computer Forensics
White Papers We describe a computationally cheap method for making all log entries generated prior to the logging machine's compromise impossible for the attacker to read, and also impossible to undetectably modify or destroy.A secure digital camera needs to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
