Find Incriminating Contraband in Images

By Chet Hosmer

Today criminals covertly communicate, secretly exchange information, and conceal incriminating contraband (i.e. child pornography) using a variety of methods. If you hope to detect this hidden data, it is important to understand the types of carrier files that exist and how they are used.

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Researcher Attempts To Dispel Damaging Botnet Myth

A common misconception that a botnet uses a single piece of malware to infect its victims has kept many enterprises from properly protecting their client machines.

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Security Pros Collaborate on Privacy Act Rewrite—In a Wiki

Ari Schwartz, COO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, wants you to help draft the new federal Privacy Act, and he's providing the tool for you to do that: a wiki at www.eprivacyact.org, in which cybersecurity professionals are proposing language on how the 35-year-old law should be upgraded.

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Time Is Ripe For a Military Cybersecurity Command

The Defense Department's creation of a new cybersecurity command, expected to be formally announced this week, was inevitable and long overdue. Cyber warfare, whether we like it or not, is here and a reality, and the government needs coordinated defensive and offense capabilities to protect our national security interests.

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Criminal Gang Bought Own Music on iTunes and Amazon Using Stolen Cards

The Metropolitan Police and the FBI have caught an international criminal gang said to have made tens of thousands of dollars by buying their own records from Apple iTunes and Amazon with stolen credit cards. Amazon and iTunes, which were unaware of the fraud, paid $300,000 in royalties for the music.

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Hacker Halted USA Conference to Offer Complimentary Security Training Worth $599 to All Delegates

Attendees of Hacker Halted USA 2009, hosted in Miami, Florida, from September 23–25, will be entitled to attend one of three security workshops led by EC-Council Master Instructors. These one-day workshops will cover three of the most popular security topics.

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Mindseye Solutions Announces Release of TunnelVision Version 1.4

Mindseye Solutions announced the release of TunnelVision version 1.4 and the addition of a new "Pay as You Go" pricing model. "The use of TunnelVision allows our clients to sample, validate, and defend the methodologies employed throughout each step of the e-discovery process with efficiency and precision," said Bob Krantz, CEO of Mindseye Solutions.

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Visual Evidence / E-Discovery Announces Release of VeDATA MAP 2.0

Visual Evidence /E-Discovery, a source for electronic discovery products and solutions, announced the release of VeDATA MAP 2.0, a service designed to create a network enterprise-wide map—or data map—of how a corporation creates, amasses, and circulates electronically-stored information (ESI).

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Video: How to Image a Hard Drive

This video provides step-by-step instructions on imaging a hard drive using EnCase.

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Podcast: Inside the Core—Macintosh Forensics

In this episode we cover: Defeating the Open Firmware password, Mobile Forensics World’s iPhone Forensics panel discussion, the Plist of the Week, and a few Mac websites.

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So, Who Wants to Be a Hacker?

As a journalist who covers cybercrime and data breaches, I jumped at the chance to participate in a three-hour, hands-on instructional opportunity for members of the press to learn the art of basic malware creation and then put those skills to use by hacking into a virtual client. Surprisingly, hacking can be fun!

By Stefanie Hoffman

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Image Manipulation: An Interview with Dr. Hany Farid

In an e-mail interview I recently conducted with Dr. Farid he discusses the ramifications of how photos, and, to a degree, video, can undergo manipulation in this era of 2.0, and as we slide faster than we know into 3.0.

By Ron Steinman

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