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Good news for opponents of censorship. But embedding data in sites such as Flickr could also make it challenging for forensics. Life is about to become more difficult for countries trying to censor access to foreign websites. A system dubbed Collage will allow users in these countries to download stories from blocked sites while visiting [...] Our digital evidence vault audibly groaned with this update! Ladies and gents, this is a 3TB hard drive. Let that sink in. Three effin terabytes. That’s a whole lot of data on one hard drive. Seagate previously stated that the drive would be out by year’s end, but here it is and it’s barely summer. The FreeAgent [...] Anyone up for a challenge? The FBI failed to break the encryption code of hard drives seized by federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas, in Rio de Janeiro, during Operation Satyagraha. The operation began in July 2008. According to a report published on Friday (25) by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, after [...] New SD card designed to store forensic data: The WORM (write once, read many) card is “tamper proof” and data cannot be altered or deleted, SanDisk said in a statement. The card is designed for long-time preservation of crucial data like legal documents, medical files and forensic evidence, SanDisk said. The media comes with capacity of only [...] While it’s often the large corporations that make the headlines when their security has been breached, it’s the smaller companies that are often subject to the greatest harm from malicious attacks and data theft. In mid-2009, an employee at the California firm clicked on a link in an e-mail message and ended up at a malicious [...] Electronically stored information (ESI) in involved in almost all litigation these days. Currently, there are few rules governing the collection of ESI. However, there is growing debate over the practice of manual collection methods as opposed to using automated methods: While it is common for companies to use automated data-collection software and hardware, some corporate litigants [...] Two data recovery service providers have recently started offering “free” services related to electronic discovery. But, according to this article, the terms of these offers are vague — and not entirely free either. e-discovery professional working on a budget (isn’t that all of us?) may have a hard time determining their ultimate costs when taking [...] Just something to keep an eye on… tazzbit writes: “The storage vendors have been crowing about data deduplication technology for some time now, but a new open source project, Opendedup, brings it to Linux and its hypervisors — KVM, Xen and VMware. The new deduplication-based file system called SDFS GPL v2 is scalable to eight petabytes [...] A recent article on Law.com (part one of a seven part series) discusses the importance of legal holds for the preservation of electronically stored information (ESI) and other documents. Why are courts placing so much emphasis on this ministerial step in preservation of issuing a written litigation hold? It appears that patience is running thin for [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: viaForensics’ CIO, Andrew Hoog, earns Certified Computer Examiner designation Chief Investigative Officer of viaForencis, Andrew Hoog, recently obtained his (CCE)® certification from the International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners Chicago, Feb 19, 2010 – The CIO of the computer/mobile forensic and e-discovery firm viaForensics, Andrew Hoog, has earned [...] |
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August 24th, 2010 by lhaas
