Archive for June, 2007

Wanted: Fingerprint Removal Surgeon

Friday, June 29th, 2007

found by troymThe charges conspiring to distribute marijuana and being an accomplice and accessory after the fact to marijuana dealing stem from surgery he performed on a Jamaican man to replace his fingerprints with skin from his feet......In an inter...

Spector Case… experts or hired guns?

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Guilty... of a hair-don't.by blogger jglI have been following this trial in a half-assed sort of way. Some of the testimony bothers me. Sure, it is reasonable that 2 scientists come to different conclusions over "objective" physical evidence, but it ...

Where is the science?

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Well it's happened again. First a case in Pennsylvania, now a case in GeorgiaWhat I'd like to know is where is the science that would prove that someone knowingly stored these images. To quote one of the judges in the panel "It's not enough, wrote Mi...

Qu’est-ce que le “whistle-blowing”

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Litt?ralement, ce terme signifie "souffler dans un sifflet". Il a pour origine les fameux bobbies (= les forces de l'ordre du Royaume Uni) qui vont siffler en cas de constatation d'infractions sur la voie publique. Dans le m?me ordre d'id?e, mais ce...

Review - Windows Forensic Analysis

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I was doing some thinking lately and I realized that there's something commonly missing from our field - Reviews. (surprise!)Not just peer reviews but reviews of tools and books on the subject of forensics. As such I think I'm going to start adding re...

Article on Network Forensics

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

A colleague sent me a link to the following article in Network World. The article, to my dismay calls Digital Forensics a science, when I think we've established that we're not a science yet however the author rightly states that we have a poor(or non...

On Volatility…and ESI

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I've been doing a little reading recently on Criminalistics and Criminal Profiling and for one reason or another I started thinking about volatility. This is also a response to Harlan's post on RAM.What is volatility? In short it's a measurement of c...

Forensic Incident Response - the groundwork

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

No this isn't just the name of this blog. It's a concept and a term I proposed about 18 months ago. It would appear that others are using this term as well.So just what is Forensic Incident Response? I'd like to think it's the application of Digital...

La prison pour un couple d’internautes !

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Grande premi?re en Suisse, le tribunal p?nal f?d?ral a prononc? des peines de 2 ans de prison, dont 6 mois fermes ? l'encontre d'un Tunisien de 39 ans, et de 6 mois avec sursis pour son ?pouse. Ces internautes ont ?t? condamn?s pour avoir dif...

S?curit? des syst?mes d’information

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Les r?sultats d'une int?ressante ?tude, conduite par Ernst&Young, ont ?t? pr?sent?s lors d'une conf?rence ? l'Universit? de Lausanne en date du 14 juin dernier. Ce sondage est men? chaque ann?e aupr?s de 1200 entreprises dans 48 pays, ...