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April 17, 2009 |
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Let WetStone train you for the unexpected!• Hacking Bootcamp • Advanced Steganography • Zombies and Botnets • Rootkit Investigation • Wireless Hacking Come to one of our scheduled locations or let us bring our training lab to you! 1-877-WETSTONE X2 Industry Calendar To submit an event, please email editors@DFInews.com. FEATURED EVENT 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 April 20-21, 2009 Legal IT Montreal, Canada 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 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 June 28 – July 3, 2009 FIRST Kyoto Japan July 7-9, 2009 Cell Phone Forensics II Washington, DC July 12-14, 2009 20th Annual ACFE Fraud Conference & Exhibition Las Vegas, NV July 25–28, 2009 USA 2009 - Black Hat Las Vegas, NV August 3-5, 2009 Computer Forensics Show San Jose, CA August 13-14, 2009 Third International Workshop on Computational Forensics The Hague, The Netherlands August 17–19, 2009 Digital Forensic Research Workshop Montreal, Canada 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 |
Should Digital Forensic Examiners be Licensed PI’s?The debate on private investigator licensing for digital forensic examiners is heating up, with various states falling on both sides of the issue. Experts are weighing in including a resolution from the American Bar Association asking government agencies to refrain from requiring licensing. Deleted Data Drives New Data BreachesAccording to a new report, cyber criminals are no longer attacking where the credit card files are, but where they once were. "Criminals are borrowing from digital forensics tools," Bryan Sartan, director of investigative response for Verizon Business Security Solutions told PC World. He said criminals are now able to read deleted transaction data from unallocated disk space. The Cloud: Tomorrow's EDD ChallengeThis article explores the potential e-discovery impact of cloud computing, and concludes that while some of its e-discovery aspects fall within the scope of existing precedent, cloud computing raises several new discovery questions that are not fully addressed by existing law. Governor Signs Attorney General’s Digital Crime Lab BillWashington Attorney General Rob McKenna hailed the signing of a bill allowing his office, in concert with the Washington State Patrol, to lay the groundwork for the creation of a digital crime lab. Internet Explorer 8’s “Porn Mode” Can Be CrackedThe use of privacy programs provides false comfort to those using them. As all computer forensic professionals know, just because something has been deleted, doesn’t necessarily mean that it is gone. In August 2008, Dutch computer forensics firm FoxIT reported that it reconstructed the browsing history, browser cache, and other information about an Internet Explorer 8 InPrivate session. Cybercrime on the RiseThe Internet Crime Complaint Center’s (IC3) 2008 Internet Crime Report found a 33.1% increase in internet crime in 2008. The IC3 website received 275,284 complaint submissions in 2008, compared to 206,884 complaints in 2007. Meanwhile, the FBI has now ranked cyber crime as the third-greatest threat to U.S. national security, after nuclear war and weapons of mass destruction. internet crime complaint center Spies Compromised US Electric GridThe Associated Press reported that spies have hacked into the U.S. electric grid leaving behind computer programs that would let them disrupt service, exposing potentially catastrophic vulnerabilities in key pieces of national infrastructure. Fields Data Recovery Expands Facilities in St. LouisFields Data Recovery (FDR), a global leader in digital forensics and data recovery, today announced its plans to double the number of technical staff, acquire new hardware recovery tools and take on new office space in St. Louis in order to greatly increase its capacity to deal with hard disk drive and RAID data recovery jobs. Precision Discovery Further Boosts Electronic Discovery Capabilities with Addition of Seasoned ProfessionalsCurtis Browne and Michael Ross, well-respected electronic discovery experts, have joined Precision Discovery as Senior Directors. Browne and Ross both have more than two decades of information technology experience, including extensive backgrounds in e-discovery. New EMC SourceOne Product Family Delivers New Solutions for Archiving, e-Discovery, and ComplianceEMC SourceOne Discovery Manager can quickly find, safely hold, efficiently cull, and defensibly produce archived e-mail. Discovery Manager is built around a legal matter or case metaphor and supports secure authorized investigator access, defensible collection results, and chain of custody. E-Fense Incident Response and Computer Forensics Software Helix3 Now AvailableHelix3 Pro, a bootable live CD allows you to boot into a customized Linux environment that includes customized Linux kernels, excellent hardware detection and includes many applications dedicated to Incident Response and Forensics. Helix3 has been modified very carefully to not touch the host computer in any way and it is forensically sound. SIM Card Data UndeleteThis freeware SIM card data salvage tool from Undelete is helpful for retrieving the data from mobile phones in forensic investigations as the application can easily be operated by non technical mobile users. The cell phone SIM card SMS recovery application provides full back up of a cell phone SIM card memory. Revocation of Consent to Seize ComputerThis post is about what happens when consent to let police officers seize a laptop or desktop is revoked. Consent substitutes for a warrant because consent for police to search or seize is a waiver of the right to have them not do so, when that consent is withdrawn, what can you keep without obtaining a warrant? Spinning the Spoliation Record (OR, Download MP3 Sanctions)Online music downloads have caused litigation with the click of the mouse since the days of Napster in the 1990s. Arista Records LLC v. Usenet.com, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5185 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 26, 2009) continues the story of the music industry suing for copyright infringement. Cell Phone Web Apps Cache More Data to the DeviceGood news for those of us in the business of computer/mobile forensics, the latest cell phone web applications and trends cache (even more) data to the device. This will make the recovery of potentially important data/evidence easier, provided you have the proper training, tools, and technical knowledge. 5 Ways To Survive a Data Breach InvestigationWhen the digital forensics crew comes in to investigate a possible data breach, company execs often make matters worse by not being prepared. Here are five ways to keep it from happening to you. |
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