There’s nothing quite like stirring the pot of controversy. Last month, my Cache Advance column addressed the issue of cheating on certification exams. Specifically, I said that using “study aids” ...

Explore how digital forensics uncovers hidden traces in cybercrime. Dr. Syed S. Abbas explains the role of scientific analysis in modern law enforcement.

Digital forensics is the forensic science encompassing the recovery, analysis and presentation of electronically stored information (ESI). The results of a forensic analysis are often provided in the ...

Database hacking has gone mainstream and is becoming harder to detect because of the increasingly sophisticated anti-forensic procedures hackers use to cover their tracks. Knowing forensics inside and ...

Atlantic Data Forensics (ADF) Friday was awarded Cyber Defender of the Year in the 2020 MD Cybersecurity Awards by the Cybersecurity Association of Maryland Inc. (CAMI), Maryland’s only nonprofit ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Huge volumes — think terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes, yottabytes and up into the quintillion bytes — of complex, digital data is constantly being generated and scattered into ...

Storming a building and seizing computers for evidence was the easy part for the Fairfield Police Department, which serves a city of about 100,000 people in central California. But capturing and ...

Picture this: You’ve been working on that all-important document for hours, and you finally save the file in its proper location with the rest of your important files. Then you decide it’s time to do ...

To make it easier for forensic investigators to find relevant data on computers, cellphones and other electronic equipment seized in police raids, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

White-collar crime and workplace fiascos is putting data forensics on the front lines of crime scenes. We take a look into how one IT specialist dig deep to find the buried treasure on suspicious hard ...

Australian university students have developed a Linux-based data forensics tool to help police churn through a growing backlog of computer-related criminal investigations. The tool was developed by ...