• IBM melds crime-fighting, big data analytics in one security package

  By Michael Cooney | 02 May, 2012 02:50

  IBM today came out with its first iteration of the analytics software package that it expects will help law enforcement, government agencies and private businesses wade through the massive amounts of data they collect to help them predict, disrupt and prevent criminal, terrorist and fraudulent activities.

• NSW Police Force taps Unisys for image storage

  By Lisa Banks | 02 November, 2011 12:00

  The NSW Police Force has awarded a 40-month contract for the application and infrastructure support services of its Shared Imagery Management System (SIMS).

• Photo forensics: Identifying faked pictures

  By M. E. Kabay | 03 June, 2010 08:49

  Recently a family member sent me a set of pictures supposedly showing Mexican headstones with insulting epitaphs

• Forensic tool will advance data recovery

  By Tim Greene | 07 May, 2010 07:35

  New computer forensic tools will make it possible to recover more data from corrupted hard drives so long as the missing files haven't been overwritten.

• Trusteer rolls out malware forensic tool for banks

  By Jeremy Kirk | 16 March, 2010 06:04

  Security vendor Trusteer's latest product will allow banks to remotely investigate their customers' computers if it is suspected the PC has been hacked.

• How to build your own digital forensics lab, cheap

  By Brandon Gregg | 23 July, 2009 05:18

  All too frequently a peer will contact me in a panic about recovering deleted files from a suspect's hard drive--after my peer has trampled on the digital evidence like a rookie police officer at his first crime scene. Often valuable evidence is lost for good,or unusable in court; or worse, the suspect knows he is being investigated.

• Cyber Conflict: The Modern Gold Rush

  By Gary Clayton and Kevin Coleman | 06 June, 2009 00:16

  In the middle of the 1800s, a few prospectors found gold in California. When word got out, the lure of instant wealth spurred hundreds of thousands to rush to the West. Farmers, city slickers, people with no particular training or skills, all flocked to California to pan for gold.

Whitepapers about digital forensics

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  The Digital Universe Decade – Are You Ready?

  May 2010—The digital universe continued its skyrocketing growth even during a severe global economic downturn: The creation and replication of new digital information set a record in 2009 by growing to 800 billion gigabytes, 62 percent over the previous year. IDC looks at the trends and challenges of managing the explosive growth of information in this digital universe decade. Are you ready?