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  RECENT NEWS
Recent news articles that affect our field

Police Blotter: Teenage murderers convicted through IM logs June 13, 2007

Your guide to retrieving deleted files June 19, 2007

A push to standards for network forensics June 20, 2007

Appeals Panel 'Reluctantly' Tosses Child Porn Case June 27, 2007

How Online Criminals Make Themselves Tough to Find, Near Impossible to Nab May 31, 2007

Police Blotter: Cops need warrant to search cell phone? May 30, 2007

Police blotter: Can someone else let cops search your PC? May 2, 2007

All Police blotters

United States v. Heckenkamp
"This decision addresses whether a remote search of computer files on a hard drive by a network administrator was justified under the "special needs" exception to the Fourth Amendment."

Police blotter: Child porn in Web cache OK  November 2006
Similar decision by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit HERE [PDF]

IT Unready for New Rules on Electronic Evidence  November 2006

Computer technology, forensics can send a criminal to jail or prove a suspect’s innocence  [PDF] November 2006

Sex, Spies and Hard-Drives - Wipe Data Properly  November 2006

New forensics lab focuses on electronic crime (w/ video)  October 2006

MS readies 100GB HDD for XBOX 360?  October 2006

Like email, instant messages can leave traces (w/ audio)  October 2006

Forensics turns screw on NHS fraud  October 2006

Presenting digital evidence to court  October 2006

Kidnapper's retro computer offers scant clues  September 2006

Partial file matching in host intrusion prevention systems  September 2006

Forensic Investigation To Be Done On Casino Machine  September 2006

United Kingdom: British Businesses Beware!
Digital Evidence is Coming to a Courtroom Near You
  August 2006

Forensics investigators tracked correspondence in Air Force-Boeing scandal  August 2006

Prevention cuts down on laborious forensics  August 2006

Crime lab designed to help find pornographers, victims  August 2006

Researcher: Hacker Sophistication Outpacing Forensics  August 2006

Digital Evidence: How Law Enforcement Can Level the Playing Field With Criminals  July 2006

Computer forensics: The new DNA  July 2006

Forensic tools 2006  July 2006

Microsoft Acquires Winternals, Sysinternals  July 2006

Investigator sifts through digital evidence to put criminals behind bars  July 2006

How Windows remembers your connections  June 2006

Forensics: Looking Inside the Stolen VA Laptop  June 2006

PDA CSI   June 2006

Mobile phone forensics 'hole' reported   June 2006

Noise Links Digital Images to Camera   June 2006

Young Cyber-Sleuths   May 2006

Fighting Crime With Cellphones' Clues   May 2006

Predators eye new ground   May 2006

Attack of the iPods!   May 2006

"CSI" for the Enterprise?   April 2006

Bots increasingly behind cybercrime   April 2006

'Dina SMSed Jordan’s dad on day of murder'   April 2006

DUSTING FOR DIGITAL FINGERPRINTS - Inside the High-Tech World of Regional Computer Forensics Laboratories   April 2006

Binghamton University research links digital images and cameras   April 2006

Deleting May Be Easy, but Your Hard Drive Still Tells All   April 2006

Pa. seizes paper's computer hard disks   March 2006

Crime: 'Netbangers,' Beware   March 2006

Erasing Computer Files Might Create Employee Liability   March 2006

Computer files likely Exhibit A   March 2006 [PDF]

The Detective and the Database   March 2006

Navigating The Data Minefield   March 2006

San Marcos man used iPod to store images, investigators contend   March 2006

Income Tax Raid: The Income Tax Department Is Much Smarter Than You Think.   February 2006 [PDF]

Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court   February 2006

Washington Post fails to protect Deep Throat   February 2006
also
Washington Post Caught in Metadata Gaffe?   February 2006

What’s in your document? Board says it’s unethical to mine hidden data from e-texts   January 2006

Uncertain & Unseen: Pending amendments to the federal rules should provide guidance to handling metadata   [PDF] January 2006

LiveCDs as a forensic tool   January 2006

Look Out Below: Higher-Ups Are Keeping an Eye on Workers   January 2006

Security: Forensic Tools in Court   December 2005

Reckoning With Metadata   December 2005

Pulling the Plug in 2005   December 2005
Interesting Commentary

Curiosity May Kill the Case   [PDF] December 2005

How to Keep a Digital Chain of Custody    December 2005

Security: Forensic Tools in Court    December 2005

Tracked by cellphone    December 2005

Photo Chop Shop   December 2005
Digital forensics can detect misleading cut-and-paste jobs and match a photograph to an individual camera's "fingerprint."

Computer forensics tools maker hacked   December 2005

How an Ex-Programmer Earns Extra Bucks in Computer Forensics   December 2005

Petrick Googled 'Neck,' 'Snap,' Among Other Words, Prosecutor Says   November 2005

Alleged Botnet Crimes Trigger Arrests on Two Continents   November 2005

Beware Your Trail of Digital Fingerprints   November 2005

How long does it take to crack a terrorist hard drive?   November 2005

Data Forensics or e/Discovery?
Healthcare Case Study: Tampering with Medical Records
  November 2005

Finding Wyatt Earp: How to Choose Your Computer Forensics Expert   Oct/Nov 2005

What is Metadata Anyway?   November 2005


OLDER NEWS
Keystroke Cops   September 2005

Federal Court Turns When E-mails Contradict Deposition Testimony   August 2005

Data dangers dog hard drive sales   September 2005

Inside the Kazaa raid   May 2005

Messages sent by computer can be used as evidence   July 2005

IPods Serve as Hidden Hard Drives   July 2005

New High - Tech Crime Lab Targets Cyberspace Criminals (with Video)   July 2005

Computer Forensics Explained: A Primer for Physical Security Professionals   July 2005

Scouring the Internet for Computer Forensics Resources   June 2005

When digital discovery meets CSI   June 2005

Computer Forensic Tools & Methods Should Be Subject to Peer Review   June 2005

On the Cyber-Trail Of Child Exploiters   June 2005

Fletcher aides leave plentiful trail of e-mail   June 2005

Virtual CSI: Crime-Scene Investigations Go Digital   May 2005

Cyber Forensics … Still a Way to Go   April 2005

Is There a Need for Industry Control?   April 2005

Intercepted e-mail is upheld in sex case   April 2005

Digital evidence: Today's fingerprints   January 2005
    Check out the Interactive flash: Try your hand at being a cyber sleuth

Expert rejects Lundy evidence   March 2005

Can computers survive cross-examination?   March 2005

Online child porn investigation costs police £15m   March 2005

Teenage witness feared jeopardizing Johnathan trial, Web log reveals   February 2005

DOD seized 60TB in search for Iraq battle plan leak   January 2005

Los Alamos missing disks never existed   January 2005
    University fined millions for weak security, records

Sleuths follow digital crime trails   December 2004
    Heart of America Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory

Computer forensic witness takes stand in Kazaa trial   December 2004
    It is possible to trace users sharing unlicensed music files through their IP address

Web evidence used in murder hearing   December 2004
    Kansas State University professor charged with murdering his ex-wife

Tip Leads to Baby   December 2004
    Lisa Montgomery murders Bobbie Jo Stinnett for fetus

Printers betray document secrets   October 2004

Trial by computer: Digital evidence not always as reliable as it seems   October 2004

NIST looks at forensics tools for handheld devices   September 2004

Palin explains her actions in Ruedrich case   September 2004

Justice Department plans more labs focused on cyber crime   September 2004

ISP Telenor cripples zombie PC network   September 2004

FBI busts alleged DDoS Mafia   August 2004

N.H. state crime lab overloaded   July 2004

Text Messages: Deleted, Not Dead   June 2004
Text messages may turn up in Kobe Bryant case

Hidden data can be fairly easy to access   February 2004

Digital evidence raises doubts   February 2004

IRS Criminal Investigation: Ready, Willing and Able to Take on Electronic Crimes   January / February 2004

Computer Sleuths Track the Bad Guys   2003

Suspected paedophile cleared by computer forensics   October 2003

Gathering The E-Evidence   August 2002

Accessing the secrets of the brotherhood  July 2002

Police smash net paedophile ring  July 2002

Net creates new breed of paedophile  April 2002

'How I lured paedophiles online'  August 2001

 

IN THE NEWS
Notable cases, and how computer-related evidence played a role

The BTK Killer

The Bobbie Jo Stinnett / Lisa Montgomery case

The Martha Stewart case

The Scott Petersen case

The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base spying case

The Chandra Levy disappearance

 

MISCELLANEOUS (But Interesting!)

Deadly Pursuit [Computers are playing a major role in an increasing number of real-world crimes]

An amnesty for internet paedophiles?

GPS used to track teens' driving

Workplace blogs create legal problems

Would-be whistleblower indicted for keyboard tap

A Sordid Tale [Child porn blackmail scheme]

EU develops cyber crime forensics standards

Cyber-Extortion Results in Prison Sentence

Police warn of Wi-Fi theft by porn downloaders
Includes links to video of news conference

Typical child porn user is white male IT pro

Judges OK evidence from hacker vigilante

Hillsboro's cybercrime unit breaks up

Army deploys PC forensics technology in Iraq

Computer search during murder investigation reveals child porn [PDF]

Secret Service Combats Cybercrime (w/ video)

CD Universe evidence compromised

Cybersleuths Seek Truth About Enron (w/ video)

Hot on the E-Trail of Evidence at Enron

Identity Theft Ring Busted (w/ pics)

Will a trunk-mounted radio damage computer evidence?

Takedowns: Legendary Successes in Computer Forensics

A Palmtop for the Prosecution

Electronic evidence anchors porn case The Larry Benedict story

 

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