Don’t Fool Yourself: Gangs Blog and Tweet Like We Do

By Andy Spruill

In their online chat sessions, gang members discuss activities that include the planning and execution of crimes, drug cultivation and distribution, and the buying and selling of weapons. The social networking Web sites they visit glorify gang culture or promote their individual street gangs.

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FBI Cybercrime Operation Reveals Massive Online Banking Fraud Scheme

The FBI arrested and charged 53 U.S. individuals accused of operating a vast phishing operation and stealing at least $2 million. The FBI operation, dubbed “Phish Phry” is said to involve the largest-ever number of defendants charged in a single cybercrime case.

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Government Red Tape Adds To Security Threats

The borderless nature of cybercrime exposes inadequacies in how law enforcement agencies cooperate to solve cases. Police in one country often have to contact law enforcement departments in several other countries to assist in investigations. This system has a low rate of success in nabbing the cybercriminals.

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Mesa Computer Crimes Unit Faces Budget Crunch

While the number of devices holding digital evidence is growing at dizzying rates, Mesa's Computer Forensic Unit has not. Massive budget cuts last year forced Mesa police to slash its number of detectives in the unit from five to two.

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Circuit Training To Strengthen Legal Outsourcing

The Seventh Circuit has started a program to boost awareness of e-discovery and to help litigation parties control severe costs that have arisen from a boom in electronic documents. A special committee will decide the circuit's future policy and set formal rules for e-discovery conduct in the jurisdiction.

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CelleBrite Announces the Launch of UFED Physical Pro

CelleBrite Ltd. announces the UFED Physical Pro, an upgrade module to its UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) family of products. The UFED Physical Pro adds the capability to extract deleted data and user passwords located in phone memory.

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Lawmen Gather for Child Online Protection Conference

Without much fanfare, lawmen from several agencies and states are meeting for the first National Conference on Child Online Protection. With topics such as “Computer Forensics” and “How to Create an Undercover Profile,” the meeting aims to address how to protect children from online predators.

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Sherpa's New e-Discovery Tool Eases Review of ESI

Discovery Attender is an e-Discovery tool designed to automate investigative tasks in PST files, Exchange mailboxes, public folders and common storage areas. Discovery Attender helps you quickly find and produce electronically stored information (ESI).

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The Future of Digital Forensics

By John Sawyer

Last week's 10th annual IT Security Awareness Day at the University of Florida got me thinking about the future of forensics and the challenges forensic investigators are beginning to face. Problems include the ever-increasing size of hard drives and the need for faster decision-making during incident response.

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Video: Judges Craig Shaffer and Ron Hedges Give Good Advice to All Students of e-Discovery

By Ralph Losey

Judges Hedges and Shaffer give important e-discovery advice, including what is expected of lawyers in federal court. There is some great, timely content here, including advice on case management, staging, proactivity, ethics, proportionality, the proper use of vendors, and the need to educate judges about your case.

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Certifications… A Necessary Evil?

By Lars Daniel

I have had the great advantage and privilege of learning through the apprenticeship model. I know that my situation is the exception and not the rule. Obviously I like the apprenticeship model, but this model does not work on a large scale.

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The Ins And Outs of e-Discovery

By Eddie Sheehy

What is e-Discovery? The act of processing electronic data in order to answer questions for governance and compliance reasons or find proof for internal investigations is called electronic investigation. When this is undertaken in response to litigation, the process is called electronic discovery.

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