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March 27, 2009 |
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Product Focus
The ALL-IN-ONE Solution for Your Hardware Write Protection NeedsThe New Super DriveLock from ICS combines all the most common drive interfaces (SATA, IDE, SCSI, and USB) found in the market today with a fast eSATA connection to your forensics workstation. The unit can be permanently mounted inside your workstation or it can be used as a portable device and moved conveniently around to wherever it is needed. With secure firmware upgrades, write attempt indicators and much more, the new Super DriveLock assures users outstanding functionality at an affordable price! Industry Calendar To submit an event, please email editors@DFInews.com. April 7-9, 2009 Cell Phone and Portable Storage Forensics Houston, TX April 13-15, 2009 Cell Phone Forensics I Washington, DC April 15-16, 2009 8th Annual Security Conference Las Vegas, NV April 20-24, 2009 EDAS Bootcamp Tampa, FL April 27-29, 2009 The Computer Forensics Show Washington, DC April 27-29, 2009 eDiscovery San Francisco, CA May 5–7, 2009 Cell Phone Forensics Pittsburgh, PA May 12–14, 2009 Cell Phone Forensics (Law Enforcement Only) Allentown, PA May 17-20, 2009 CEIC 2009 Orlando, FL May 17-21, 2009 CSI SX 2009 Las Vegas, NV May 20-22, 2009 ADFSL Conference Burlington, VT digitalforensics-conference.org May 22, 2009 SADFE Oakland, CA May 26-30, 2009 Mobile Forensics World Chicago, IL May 31-June 3, 2009 Techno Security Conference Myrtle Beach, SC July 7-9, 2009 Cell Phone Forensics II Washington, DC July 12-14, 2009 20th Annual ACFE Fraud Conference & Exhibition Las Vegas, NV August 23-26, 2009 2009 HTCIA International Training Conference Lake Tahoe, CA Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2009 1st International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime Albany, NY October 23-24, 2009 A National Symposium on the Collection, Analysis and Legal Applications of Digital Evidence - The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law Pittsburgh, PA October 26-28, 2009 2009 Techno Forensic Conference Gaithersburg, MD November 8-11, 2009 PFIC 2009 Park City, UT |
As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping UpLast week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge’s instructions and centuries of legal rules. But when the judge questioned the rest of the jury, he got an even bigger shock. Antiphishing Group Develops E-crime Reporting ToolA group dedicated to fighting phishing scams has developed a way for police and other organizations to report e-crimes in a common data format readable by a Web browser or other application. The challenge facing law enforcement and security organizations is a lack of a coherent reporting system, said Peter Cassidy, secretary general of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium that tracks Internet fraud and scams. Evidence in an Age of Self-SurveillanceEvidence derived from social networking comes into play in several ways. Law enforcement and prosecutors use it to identify suspects and build cases. And defense attorneys have begun to mine this resource for information that can exculpate their clients, impeach a state's witness or provide a basis for a reduced sentence or post-conviction review. Cellphone Videos are Evidence in "Fight Club" State School ScandalThis month, six staffers were charged with injury to a disabled person over fights allegedly organized for the staff's entertainment. Videos of the fights were found on a cellphone. Russian Spy Agencies Linked to Georgian Cyber-attacksMore circumstantial evidence has emerged linking the Russian authorities to cyber-attacks on Georgia that coincided with a ground war between the two countries in July and August last year. Government Action on Cloud Computing UrgedA new Google-supported report only paints with a broad brush what should and shouldn't be done, but delves deeper into the possibilities. France, Ireland to Launch E-crime Police Training ProgramsFrance and Ireland are hoping the European Commission will back a plan to create an academically accredited cybercrime training program for law enforcement. Dejavu Technologies announces eForensics Next Generation ProductTrafficscape enables IP networks e-forensics analysis via a simple search interface. CRU-DataPort Announces New SolutionsCRU-DataPort announced five new data security and data storage products including hardware based encryption, a portable RAID storage enclosure and write-blocked forensic tools. Patent Issued on OnLine Digital Forensic Suite TechnologyCyber Security Technologies Corporation announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent covering the core technology of the OnLine Digital Forensic Suite™ (OnLineDFS™) for live, network-based computer forensic investigations. Secure Delete Requires Only One OverwriteFor decades we’ve been told by security software vendors that to truly delete data from a hard drive, you have to overwrite the data multiple times with different patterns of 0s and 1s. But now we can file this away with other computer urban legends. Computer Forensics and Multi InputWith multiple users on one computer the load on a system's ram will increase. The temporary memory for the guest component would be labeled for simple reference. In order to lower the strain on the cpu usage the user of the multiple input computer would not be able to write anything to the hard drive.This feature works as a protection block as well. In order to download a file to the computer the multi input component will send a link or request to the admin computer. Browser ForensicsWhile downloading various web browsers for future experimentation, One in particular caught my eye.
The Death of Computer Forensics (on Web2.0 Sites)It is always about some geek wearing old style clothes, 3-days beard, glazing eyes, lots of half eaten pizza remains around, empty cans of beer scattered around and a refrigerator that looks likethe dump bucket. And then a beautiful young lady knocks on the door, asking for help in her X-files type of investigation.
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