Year: 2011

  • Forensic 4cast Awards – Live

    Sadly the voting for the Forensic 4cast Awards has now closed bit don’t worry, the awards ceremony will be broadcast live today. Please take some time to watch and support the effort to recognise those people that work hard to improve and advance the field. The link to watch is here: http://www.livestream.com/sansinstitute The show kicks…

  • Forensic 4cast Awards – Meet the Nominees

    Voting for the Forensic 4cast Awards is now open. You can cast your votes at: http://www.forensic4cast.com/forensic-4cast-awards/ Please take some time out of your busy day to learn about the nominees below. Outstanding Contribution to Digital Forensics (Individual) Harlan Carvey Through numerous books, blogging, and free software that is widely used, Harlan Carvey has made significant effort…

  • Episode 37 – AccessData Interview

    This episode I had the pleasure of talking to Brian Karney and Lee Reiber about AD Triage, MPE+, and FTK version 4.

  • FTK 4, MPE+, and AD Triage – Upcoming Interview

    On Monday I am being joined by Lee Reiber and Brian Karney of AccessData. We will be discussing FTK version 4, the latest version of Mobile Phone Examiner Plus (MPE+) and their newest product AD Triage. As with our time with Guidance I’m interested to hear any questions you may have about these products. If…

  • Episode 36 – EnCase Forensic 7

    In this episode we’re joined by Steve Salinas and Ashley Stockdale from Guidance Software. They’ve taken time out of their busy schedules to talk about the upcoming release of EnCase Forensic Version 7.

  • Get in your nominations!

    It may have escaped the attention of some but the closing date for your nominations to the Forensic 4cast Awards is May 1st 2011. This means that you have less that you have 26 days to post your nominations. This year the Forensic 4cast Awards promises to be the biggest and best yet. Guidance have…

  • EnCase Forensic 7

    I hope that, by now, everyone realised that my post yesterday was for April Fools and that I have no intention of quitting Forensic 4cast or becoming a professional wrestler. The good news is that next Sunday I’m going to be recording a special episode of Forensic 4cast with two people from Guidance Software. They…

  • Goodbye

    I was already in a foul mood this morning because the kids got me out of bed at 5am so when I found that I had received a derogatory email about the latest episode of Forensic 4cast I decided that I’d had enough. I can only apologise to everyone as I announce that Forensic 4cast…

  • Upholding the law: the risks for forensicators

    “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it” – I’m sure many remember Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems coming out with that controversial phrase in 1999. Yet 15 years later instead of the problem being dealt with it now is hotter than ever. In Episode 35, Forensic 4cast discussed the events surrounding HBGary, having been articulately hacked by…

  • Forensic 4cast 2010 Statistical Report

    I was looking at the website stats the other day and thought that there may be some people out there that would find the stats interesting so I’m publishing them for your review. I’m not a statistician by any means so if anyone has any insight as to what they get from these please let…