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February 12, 2010

 
 

FEATURE ARTICLE

Cybersecurity Seizes More Attention, Budget Dollars

Cybersecurity is seizing more attention and budget dollars from the Defense Department at a time when China's alleged cyber attack on Google has underscored the urgency of the threat and the vulnerability of U.S. networks.

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PRODUCT FOCUS

FRED DUAL RAID - Unleash the power of FTK III

The FRED family of forensic workstations are highly integrated, flexible and modular forensic platforms that are designed for the Digital Forensic Examiner. The latest FRED system, the Dual RAID, affords you the power, storage, speed and redundancy required to successfully integrate AccessData’s FTK III into your arsenal.

www.digitalintelligence.com

 

PEOPLE & BUSINESS

Pay As You Go e-Discovery

SunBlock Systems’ BitFlare is an automated tool that enables end users to specify search criteria, efficiently conduct e-discovery, computer forensics, and data preservation for litigation, and pay only for the results that are generated.

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Kit Cracks iPhone Backup Passwords

Password cracking of iPhone backups has become a point-and-click exercise thanks to the Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker software.

The Register

 

IN THE BLOGS

Duplicating Forensic Images by Splitting a RAID1

By David Kovar

Is there any way to create two images in real time without pushing the data down the pipe twice? Isn’t that what RAID1 is supposed to provide? Are two drives in a hardware RAID 0 “really” identical? Turns out that, at least in my test case, they are.

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Cloud Computing: Not Just For Geeks or Feds

By Christa Miller

Think online investigation is just for the high-tech crimes types, the computer forensics geeks or the feds? Not so. The more people are online, the more they’re likely to use cloud services, the more important it is for local law enforcement to be there too.

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Video: How to Transport a Live Computer

By James Wiebe

HotPlug allows you to transfer a running computer to battery power, so you can move it somewhere else without turning it off. The two methods demonstrated here are easy, and work on most situations in the U.S.

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IN THE NEWS


Police on the Hunt for Perfect PC Crime Breathalyzer

UK police are continuing to develop a tool to detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs that could be as easy to use as a breathalyzer. This digital triage tool would give frontline police with little training in digital forensics the ability to search for digital evidence.

Silicon.com

Google Asks Spy Agency for Help with Inquiry into Cyberattacks

Google has turned to the National Security Agency for technical assistance to learn more about the computer network attackers who breached the company’s cybersecurity defenses last year.

The New York Times

Nigeria Uses Celebrity Power to Stem Cybercrime

Microsoft and Nigeria have released a song and video as part of a campaign to dissuade people from getting involved in cybercrime.

PC World

Cyber Crime Gets Organized

The world needs a kind of Internet Interpol to combat cyber criminals who have usurped the global communications network for their nefarious activities.

Times Live

Digital Forensics Expert Testifies on Armored-Car Deaths

Seven hours after he shot to death two Loomis armored van guards servicing a Northeast Philadelphia ATM, Mustafa Ali apparently was on his personal computer searching police sites and news coverage of the case, an FBI expert told a Philadelphia jury yesterday.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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INDUSTRY CALENDAR

   

March 1-5, 2010
RSA Conference
San Francisco, CA

March 15-19, 2010
International Cybercrime and E-Discovery Summit
Kennesaw, GA

 

March 23-24, 2010
GovSec/U.S. Law Conference
Washington, DC

March 26-28, 2010
EuroForensics Conference
Istanbul, Turkey

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