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	January 22, 2010


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FEATURE ARTICLE

The Digital Forensic Sub-Disciplines

by John J. Barbara

ASCLD/LAB recognizes Digital and Multimedia Evidence as a forensic discipline with four sub-disciplines, but can we clearly differentiate whether an examination falls under Computer Forensics, Forensic Audio, Image Analysis, or Video Analysis?

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PEOPLE & BUSINESS

MOBISEC 2010 Call For Papers

The 2nd International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems is calling for paper submissions to be presented May 26-28, 2010, in Catania, Italy.

Enter Your Product in the Security Products GovSec 2010 Awards

Companies exhibiting their product(s) at GovSec 2010 are eligible to enter their product in the Security Products GovSec 2010 Awards.

Index Engines Validates 1 Terabyte per Hour Indexing

Index Engines announced that it has expanded its participation in the EMC Velocity Technology and ISV Program to include high-speed indexing capabilities on the EMC Celerra unified storage systems.

IN THE BLOGS

Twitter Comment Lands British Man in Jail

By Frederick Lane

In Britain recently, a man went to the airport intending to fly to Ireland to see his girlfriend. When he found out that his flight was canceled, he made what has since proven to be a life-changing comment on Twitter: "You've got a week to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!"

Red Hat Crash Memory Forensics

By Jamie Levy

This article covers the installation and use of Redhat Crash Utility for Linux memory forensics.

New Versions of PDFiD and pdf-parser

By Didier Stevens

To deal with PDF samples trying to evade detection by preceding the header with some random bytes, I use less stringent conditions to identify a PDF file.

IN THE NEWS

U.S. Army Website Hacked

Romanian hackers continue to have a field day with SQL injection flaws in major Website applications. A vulnerability in a U.S. Army Website that leaves the database wide open to an attacker has now been exposed.

Dark Reading

Texas Murder Suspect Searched “Overdose” Online

In the month before his wife died, a minister in Texas tried to buy a prescription sleeping aid online and conducted an Internet search for "overdose on sleeping pills," computer experts testified Thursday in his murder trial.

The Washington Post

Evidence Found for Chinese Attack on Google

An American computer security researcher has found what he says he believes is strong evidence of the digital fingerprints of Chinese authors in the software programs used in attacks against Google.

The New York Times

Boulder Police Debut New Computer Crimes Lab

After years of having to send computers and cell phones to be analyzed by outside forensics labs, the Boulder Police Department on Wednesday debuted its own computer crimes laboratory.

Colorado Daily

New Britain Police Get Program to Check Predators’ Cell Phones

The New Britain, Connecticut, Police Department Digital Forensics Unit will be ready to examine evidence on all types of cell phone technology thanks to two grants secured by The Innocent Justice Foundation.

New Britain Herald