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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]
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]
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. Speaking at an Information Security Systems Association (ISSA) conference in London, Clive...
[May 10, 2005, 15:30]
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]
Army deploys PC forensics technology in Iraq
News The British Army has revealed that it is using PC forensics technology in Iraq to search through recovered electronic media to investigate illegal activities undertaken by the previous regime. Simon Janes, operations manager for computer forensics...
[September 29, 2003, 15:45]
TechNet Webcast: Network Forensics: Identifying Attack Signatures (Level 200)
White Papers Listening in on network traffic (network forensics) can reveal whether an application and data communications are secure, and point out possible reconnaissance processes preceding an attack. Learning the signatures of the breach traffic is also the...
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
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]
Beginners Guide to Linux Forensics
White Papers This paper serves as a beginners guide to introducing the reader to a particular aspect of the Computer Forensics field, which is that of performing forensic analysis from within the Linux operating system.
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
Internet Forensics
Member Review Internet Forensics: Using Digital Evidence to Solve Computer Crime is an interesting and informative read, and a useful reference. Computer crime is an ever-present threat for businesses and individuals.
[April 4, 2006, 9:52]
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]
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]
On a Network Forensics Model for Information Security
White Papers Network forensics is a new approach for the incident investigation and emergence response, which also enhance the network security from a different point of view. However, the current network forensics system is confused with the network monitor...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
X-Ways Forensics
Downloads X-Ways Forensics is an advanced work environment for computer forensic examiners. X-Ways Forensics comprises all the general and specialist features known from WinHex, such as. It is closely integrated with the WinHex hex and disk editor and can be...
[June 3, 2008, 8:00]
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]
Mobile phone forensics 'hole' reported
News Standard forensics tools don't address the less popular types of phone," warned Moore, speaking at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security in Cambridge on Monday. Interface commands of proprietary phone technologies also vary widely...
[June 26, 2006, 15:30]
Mobile phone forensics 'hole' reported
Talkback The only tools I see coming to existence with this "we will not have enough until we have total mind control over everybody" attitude is informational warfare or deliberate misinformation on a mass scale someday.
[June 26, 2006, 23:41]
Privacy watchdog creates IT forensics team
News The Information Commissioner's Office has established an in-house unit to cover 80 percent of its more standard cases, as it is more cost-effective than using an external organisation and helps with the continuity of investigations.
[July 19, 2007, 10:08]
Police hunt down IT forensics expertise
News The Metropolitan Police Service is setting up a £32m framework to buy forensic analysis of electronic devices. An advertisement, published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 1 October, 2009, says the Met wants to set up a four-year...
[October 2, 2009, 8:16]
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]
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]
