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Microsoft Has Developed Windows Forensic Analysis Tool for Police

2008-04-30 13:54:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB "thumb drive" that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith described its use to the 350 law-enforcement experts attending a company conference Monday The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to...
 
Tags: microsoft, tool, tools, investigative tools, microsoft simply, off-the-shelf forensic tools, device, tool separately, usb device
 
 
 
 
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Forensic Metadata in Word Docs and Jpegs supporting Exif

2007-09-20 00:20:27 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Forensic Metadata in Word Docs and Jpegs supporting Exif Metadata is data about data. Different file formats store extra data about themselves in different ways. This video will cover metadata that can be used during a forensic investigation, namely MS Word doc metadata and the metadata stored in a Jpeg's Exif data. Also, if you are an...
 
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Forensic Printer Codes May Be Illegal in Europe

2008-02-25 05:50:07 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
I've already written about secret forensic codes embedded in color laser printers. Seems like these codes may breach European privacy laws
 
Tags: codes, secret forensic codes, color laser printers
 
 
 
 
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Nigerian IT group pushes forensic training

2008-08-07 00:00:00 by HASH0x84733e4 in Network World on Security
 
The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has called on the country's government to train civil servants in computer forensic technology as a way to fight e-commerce fraud in the country
 
Tags: nigeria computer society, fight e-commerce fraud, train civil servants, computer forensic technology, country, government, ncs
 
 
 
 
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Assessing the Security Benefits of Cloud Computing

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2008-07-21 07:00:15 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...forensic benefits with SaaS. Also, for space reasons, Im purposely not including the flip side to these benefits, however if you read this blog regularly you should recognise some On a sidenote, I believe the Cloud offers Small and Medium Businesses major potential security benefits. Frequently SMBs struggle with limited or non-existent...
 
Tags: benefits, cloud, security, technical security benefits, based, virtualization based cloud, efficient security software, security software, cloud market
 
 
 
 
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Hackers Holy Grail - Redefined by Microsoft

2008-04-29 16:53:42 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...forensics tool . Here is a quote from the article The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB thumb drive that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith described its use to the 350 law-enforcement experts attending a company...
 
Tags: holy grail, microsoft, hackers holy grail, black hat community, cybercrime underworld, cybercrime, computer, gather digital evidence, reverse engineer
 
 
 
 
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Murder, His Hard Drive Wrote

2008-05-23 04:00:00 by Marty Graham in Wired Security
 
...forensics are beginning to take a back seat to the science of recovering and sifting through evidence hidden on computers, cellphones and thumb drives Nowhere is that shift clearer than at the FBI's Regional Forensic Computer Lab here, which once lifted traces of incriminating Google searches from a suspect's hard drive to help convict him of...
 
Tags: lab, murder, regional forensic lab, hard, hard drive, san diego lab, data cables, data, murder investigations
 
 
 
 
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Inside an FBI Computer Forensics Lab

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2008-05-23 04:00:00 by Kevin Poulsen in Wired Security
...Forensics Lab in San Diego have already helped solve murders, child porn cases and robberies. They're among the best in the nation at pulling evidence from hard drives, cellphones and memory cards There are now 14 such labs in the United States, with two more coming online this year. Last year, the FBI labs collectively performed more than...
 
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1st Source Bank reissues all debit cards in response to breach

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2008-06-05 09:09:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...forensic firms to analyze the breach The server that holds our debit card information they were in there and they transferred information out. But we can't really tell if it was 10, 20, or 30 percent of our card holders," said Seitz They did, however, get Track 2 data contained on magnetic stripes, including account numbers, according to...
 
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Cascade Healthcare Community donors affected by malware

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2008-03-07 14:02:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog