Computer Forensic Tool Testing Project

There is a critical need in the law enforcement community to ensure the reliability of computer forensic tools. The Computer Forensic Tool Testing (CFTT) project aims to establish a methodology for testing computer forensic software tools and has used these standards to test many of the computer forensic tools available today. The full reports are available to aid in selecting and developing forensic tools.

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St. Louis FBI Leads Nation in Child Predator Arrests

With the help of computer forensics detectives on a regional task force, the FBI St. Louis Division has arrested more than 100 people on child pornography and child sex crimes charges in the last two years, the most of any field office in the nation.

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New Trojan Evades Banks’ Anti-Fraud Systems

URLZone, a next-generation Trojan recently discovered pilfering online bank accounts around the world, calculates how much money to steal from a victim's account without raising suspicion. Then it forges the victim's on-screen bank statements so the person and bank don't see the unauthorized transaction.

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Suffolk Lands Federal Grant to Expand Efforts against Sex Offenders

The Suffolk, New York, Police Department has been selected as one of 26 law enforcement agencies in 19 states to be awarded funds under the federal Child Sexual Predator Program (CSPP). The $488,601 grant was secured through a nomination by the Eastern District of the U.S. Attorney General's Office.

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Police Use Grant for Cell Phone Forensics

Part of a $100,000 federal grant received by the Cranberry, Pennsylvania, police department will be used for equipment allowing the retrieval of data from cellular telephones. This kind of computer forensics work currently is hired out to state police or other investigatory agencies.

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DHS to Hire 1,000 Cybersecurity Experts

The Department of Homeland Security will be hiring up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts — analysts, programmers, and systems engineers — in the next three years. The department will use direct hiring authority, bypassing the federal government's time-consuming and onerous hiring process.

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Digital Forensics Taking Hold at Ball State

Starting this fall, Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, is offering a minor in digital forensics. This minor will allow students to pursue careers as computer forensic examiners, electronic discovery specialists, or lawyers specializing in criminal and civil law related to computers.

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Conference: Evidence in the Information Age

The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law will be holding Evidence in the Information Age, a national symposium on the collection, analysis, and legal applications of digital evidence on October 23-24 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Cyber Security Technologies Introduces Release 2 of P2P Marshal

Cyber Security Technologies announced the introduction of P2P Marshal Release 2. P2P Marshal is an automated computer forensics application used to discover and analyze peer-to-peer (P2P) usage on images of hard drives.

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Guidance Software Announces Availability of EnCase Cybersecurity

Guidance Software has announced that EnCase Cybersecurity is now generally available. EnCase Cybersecurity is designed for information security, network defense and incident response teams tasked with protecting sensitive or confidential information, and identifying and responding to network threats.

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How Is Computer Forensics Different from Incident Response?

By Larry Daniel

There is a significant difference between incident response and computer (digital forensics). However, it only becomes apparent when you analyze the different uses for the two disciplines and how they are applied.

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Child’s Game of “Go Fish” Is a Poor Model for e-Discovery Search

By Ralph Losey

I submit that the negotiated key word search model prevalent in e-discovery today uses the same guessing game model as Go Fish. Regardless of the reason for non-disclosure, this system of discovery by guesses on effective keywords is a model of inefficiency.

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Whistleblower Trashes National Archives Hard Drive Recycling Program

By Frederick Lane

An IT manager at the National Archives and Records Administration alleges that his agency, which is charged with collecting and preserving the U.S. government's most important documents, may have accidentally exposed more than 70 million U.S. military veterans to the risk of identity theft.

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Pacific Labs CIO Talks Cloud Computing Security

By Alexander Wolfe

Jerry Johnson, chief information officer of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, offers insights into cloud security, the war on cybercrime, and the expansion of the perimeter.

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