Upcoming Digital Forensic Industry events

Mark your calendars for some upcoming Digital Forensic Industry events (listing courtesy of DFI News - you can subscribe to their great newsletter here):


April 13-15, 2009

Cell Phone Forensics I Washington, DC

h11-digital-forensics.com

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April 15-16, 2009

8th Annual Security Conference

Las Vegas, NV

security-conference.org

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April 27-29, 2009

The Computer Forensics Show

Washington, DC

computerforensicshow.com

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April 27-29, 2009

eDiscovery

San Francisco, CA

ediscoveryevent.com

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May 5–7, 2009

Cell Phone Forensics

Pittsburgh, PA

bkforensics.com


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May 12–14, 2009

Cell Phone Forensics

(Law Enforcement Only)

Allentown, PA

bkforensics.com

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May 17-20, 2009

CEIC 2009

Orlando, FL

www.ceicconference.com

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May 17-21, 2009

CSI SX 2009

Las Vegas, NV

www.csisx.com

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May 20-22, 2009

ADFSL Conference

Burlington, VT

digitalforensics-conference.org

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May 22, 2009

SADFE

Oakland, CA

conf.ncku.edu.tw/sadfe/

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May 26-30, 2009

Mobile Forensics World

Chicago, IL

mobileforensicsworld.com

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May 31-June 3, 2009

Techno Security Conference

Myrtle Beach, SC

www.techsec.com

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July 7-9, 2009

Cell Phone Forensics II Washington, DC

h11-digital-forensics.com

June 28-July 3, 2009

FIRST Kyoto Japan

www.first.org/events/first

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July 25-28, 2009

USA 2009 Black Hat

Las Vegas, NV

www.blackhat.com


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August 3-5, 2009

Computer Forensics Show

San Jose , CA

computerforensicshow.com

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August 13-14, 2009

Third International Workshop on Computational Forensics

The Hague, The Netherlands

iwcf09.arsforensica.org

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August 17-19, 2009

Digital Forensic Research Workshop

Montreal, Canada

www.dfrws.org

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August 23-26, 2009

2009 HTCIA International Training Conference

Lake Tahoe, CA

www.htcia.org

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October 23-24, 2009

A National Symposium on the Collection, Analysis and Legal Applications of Digital Evidence - The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law

Pittsburgh, PA

www.forensics.duq.edu

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October 26-28, 2009

2009 Techno Forensic Conference

Gaithersburg, MD

www.techsec.com


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November 8-11, 2009

PFIC 2009

Park City, UT
www.pfic2009.com


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Did you know that TERIS offers Digital Forensic services as well? You can contact us to learn more!

Software capable of reassembling deleted photos

Interesting article in TG Daily yesterday that discusses technology that allows users to recover deleted photos - even those that have been cleared out of a recycling bin.

As the article notes, this has implications for individuals as well as legal and law enforcement officials:

This software serves not only the purpose of recovering photos which have accidentally been deleted by consumers, but also could aid law enforcement in the restoration of photos which have been purposefully deleted -- for instance in child pornography cases, where forensic analysis by police officers could help gather information for cases.

The full article can be found here

Divorces Just Got A Little More Technical

Over the past decade, forensics experts have seen an increased use of digital evidence during family law proceedings. Given how much our lives have become increasingly tied to the many digital devices that make day-to-day living more efficient, we don’t realize that the electronic trail left behind becomes a record of the way we live. This includes:

* Desktop/Laptop computers
* Cell phones, BlackBerry, iPhone, and PDA
* Digital cameras/recorders
* iPod/digital music/video players
* GPS systems

The electronic evidence extracted from the digital devices is increasingly making its way into divorce court cases as more and more couples want to learn about their partner’s digital activities, plotting almost indefensible maps of a cheating spouse’s footprints.
What Digital Evidence Can Be Found?

Information that can be obtained includes:

* E-Mail and instant messages
* Names and address of financial institutions
* Asset and /or fund transfers
* Debt information and account activities
* User names and passwords
* Traces of Website visited/Internet history
* Deleted or encrypted files

Many of these sources include time-specific information, which can help build time lines in investigations. Digital evidence can be powerful, but it is often perishable and transient, and can be misleading. The key is to quickly identify and retrieve the pertinent facts before they are erased forever, and to subject the data to a fair and rigorous review by a trained expert.

In a world of increased dependency on electronic and computer-based technologies, evidence does not necessarily present itself as it has in the past. Digital evidence is critical in these cases and many times is the difference between settling a case and winning a case.

A growing number of firms such as TERIS provide these and related digital and eDiscovery services to law firms.