Red Tape: Will Current Legislation Isolate Cloud Computing Data From The Forensic Gaze?

By Stephen Biggs

With the number of users utilizing cloud resources increasing exponentially, the reality that criminals will also form part of the cloud community could prove a difficult hurdle for forensic investigators. These problems are compounded by the need to gather evidence across state and international borders.

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Top Cybercrime Fighters Discuss Their Trade

Symantec's workshop on cybercrime Friday, brought together a panel of experts from law enforcement. They discussed the evolving field of digital forensics with the rise of new media in which to commit crimes.

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As Technology Needs Grow, One Sector Has No Shortage of Jobs

At a time when most industries are slashing costs and headcounts, IT firms in the Washington region are experiencing growth thanks to continued government contracts and an increased reliance on technology in nearly every sector of the economy.

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North Korean Students Reportedly Train In Cyber-Warfare

North Korea or its sympathizers are suspected in last week's cyber-attack on U.S. government and banking websites. Though North Korea is considered technologically backward, and few citizens have Internet access, there are reports of students trained in cyber-warfare.

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Cybercrime Moves to the Cloud

As data moves to the cloud, attackers and thieves will follow. The immediate threat will be attacks to steal data from the servers they are stored on, either remotely or by an insider or someone who gains access to the data center.

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ManTech CSI's Crowbar Helps Law Enforcement Unlock PIN Protected Data

ManTech Cyber Solutions International, Inc. announces Crowbar, a digital forensic tool designed to decipher personal identification numbers (PINs) on multi-media flash memory cards—typically used in mobile phones, digital cameras, and other devices—and create forensically sound images of them.

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Dell Launches Digital-Forensics Package for Police

Dell has launched a digital-forensics package to help police reduce backlogs in evidence analysis. It allows multiple analysts to work simultaneously on the same data while preserving an audit trail of evidence-handling.

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DOD Cyber Crime Conference Call for Papers Deadline Extended

The DOD Cyber Crime Conference has extended its paper submission deadline to August 1. If you are developing practical solutions to problems in cyber crime investigations and analysis; cyber incident response; data retrieval and analysis; legal problems or innovations then consider submitting a paper.

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Real World APT

There's been some buzz over APT, or Advanced Persistent Threat, in the past few days. Very few people know what it is or have experience with it. Not only that, those that have been exposed to it don't talk about it, for various reasons. Here's what I’ve found.

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Mac Forensics

The Macintosh platform has clear advantages over the Windows platform in performing computer forensics. A Mac can mount and read almost any file system while at the same time defeating any Windows based security or permission settings.

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iPhone Forensics – Zdziarski Technique

Cell phones present their own forensic challenges. The uniqueness of Zdziarski’s method is that it is the only approach that allows the examiner to perform a bit-by-bit copy of an iPhone’s user partition and can provide an MD5 sum to prove the copy was authentic.

By Andrew Hoog and Kyle Gaffaney

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Anti-Computer Forensics Defined

Anti-forensics has only recently been recognized as a legitimate field of study. Within this field of study, numerous definitions of anti-forensics abound. This blog will help you sort out the terminology relating to anti-computer forensics.

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