Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Det. Chad Gish has been working cases with digital evidence since before the boom of modern digital forensic investigations. When he first joined his agency’s ...

Criminals increasingly use computers as weapons to illegally access information or release worms and viruses to disrupt computer networks. Law enforcement agencies often must rely on criminal ...

Many people ask me about what it was like working for law enforcement. More often than not, however, they are actually enquiring about how computer crime is truly investigated. Whether it’s questions ...

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 ...

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 ...

'Follow the Evidence': The Bronx's Digital Forensics Laboratory Is Here to Inculpate and Exonerate The Bronx District Attorney Office's Digital Forensics Laboratory is the first to be accredited in ...

From biometric identification technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) to communications interception equipment and unmanned surveillance drones, modern nation states have a vast array of ...

Digital forensics is a critical technology for obtaining evidences in crime investigation. Now-a-days, the overwhelming magnitude of data and the lack of easy-to-deploy software are among the major ...

In an agreement, Microsoft Corp. and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) made available the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE), a Microsoft-developed program. COFEE uses ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has introduced a digital forensics and incident response concentration in its Master of Science in forensic science program that will roll ...

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 ...