Computer Forensic Analysts use forensic tools and investigative methods to find specific electronic data, including Internet use history, word processing documents, images and other files. The field ...

Digital forensics expert Larry Daniel answers your questions about retrieving data from a computer, reducing your digital footprint and much more. Given the forensic shows now on TV, do you think that ...

Computer forensics gave Michael Fiola his life back. Fiola is the former investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents who found himself summarily dismissed after an IT check ...

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Computer Forensics. The television series CSI has given millions of viewers an appreciation of the role and importance of physical evidence in conducting criminal ...

It’s the hottest topic on prime time television, but crime scene investigation is increasingly more complex than what’s depicted in a glitzy one-hour drama. Information technology students at ...

Time progresses and many things in life may change but, for the most part, crime remains constant. Law enforcement agencies must pursue new and different ways to combat the crimes that plague their ...

In previous articles, I’ve discussed log management and incident response in the age of compliance. It’s time to cover a separate topic that has connections to both log analysis and incident ...

MEDIA, Pa, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Guardware LLC today announced market traction for its recently released File Audit Facility(TM) (FAF). FAF identifies and generates a report listing potentially ...

Computer sleuths interested in running forensic PC operations on a Linux machines should take a look at an open source tool called Foremost. Computer sleuths interested in running forensic PC ...

A European consortium has come up with a high-speed digital forensic computer dedicated to the task of quickly offloading and analyzing all computer records from email or picture files to database ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. In a recent trucking accident case, the plaintiff's digital ...

The investigation of a computer system believed to be compromised by cybercrime. Also called "digital forensics," it is used to examine a computer that may harbor incriminating data in non-cybercrime ...