forensics
RSS forensicsIT Myths: Colombian drugs gang's mainframe-assisted assassinations?
News The DEA has never released the results of its computer forensics examination. This is backed up by the DEA, which has a dedicated Computer Forensics Program to fight back against the increasingly... [10 Jul 2003]
Boardroom Despatches: My webinar message
Comment What I mean is that there are times for precision engineering and forensics but they can also get in the way. But Rene Carayol's introduction to the 'webinar' holds further lessons for those in charge of IT. [09 Jul 2003]
New security group gets real with the real world
News The company will reciprocate by bringing Pinkerton into security engagements and by providing security services ranging from forensics to security architecture and planning. Computer Associates has partnered with several... [15 Apr 2003]
Network Associates keeps up buying spree
News The company has been on a buying spree, purchasing the forensics technology about six months ago and picking up Deersoft and its antispam filtering software last quarter. Network Associates has agreed to buy IntruVert... [02 Apr 2003]
Warning to management crooks - the net is closing in
Comment True, in the connected world there is always more mischief to be had, but computer forensics is turning into a fine art. As Integralis, a security company that investigates fraud, last year told silicon.com, the advances... [04 Feb 2003]
Bush signs Homeland Security bill - the details
News Categories include computer forensics, tools for investigating computer crime, DNA identification technologies and the development of firearms that recognise their owner. For the first half of this story, see:... [26 Nov 2002]
Cyber-criminals face high-tech 'home guard'
News Called Skills Reserve, the initiative hopes to massively increase the specialist talent police can call upon in computer forensics investigations. Jim Bates, chair of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers and a... [01 Mar 2002]
Liverpool police hunt cyber-criminals
News The force will use Guidance Software's technology to set up a school for budding cyber-cops, teaching computer forensics and investigation techniques. Merseyside Police are receiving training from a Californian... [20 Feb 2002]
Microsoft employs ex-DoJ exec as security chief
News Scott Charney currently works in digital risk management and forensics at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), but from 1 April will head to Seattle to take up his role overseeing internal and product security policies. [01 Feb 2002]
IT-literate lawyers unleashed to help cybercrime disputes
News As a result, the Communications Management Association (CMA) has created the Institute for Communications Arbitration and Forensics (ICAF) to arbitrate in such cases. While the word cybercrime is usually associated with... [03 Apr 2001]
UK cyber-crime spend 'inadequate', experts claim
News Neil Barrett, technical director at computer forensics firm, IRM, said that while the move is a fantastic leap forward, at this stage it falls short of requirements. The UK government's £337,000 pledge to set up a... [18 Jan 2000]
Hacker attack? Send for the Cavalre
News Grubb said: "Computer forensics is very new - being able to take recovered data and put the puzzle together to find out what happened. Computer forensics has to be a very precise, scientific process -... [02 Jun 1999]
