Digital forensics is still a young science. That newness, coupled with the fast-changing world of computer technology, has resulted in a taxonomy and methodology for digital forensics that are poorly ...

Network forensics is the process of capturing, storing and analyzing activity that takes place on a computer network. While it’s often associated with solving network security breaches, the practice ...

It is an understandable yet curious characteristic of the information security space that the current 'big thing' relates not to the latest big threat, but to the newest threat. The column inches ...

Information flowing over modern networks is like an onion with many superimposed, opaque layers of encapsulation, encoding, and compression. Today’s targeted threats are hidden deep within the ...

Network forensics is an essential, but often overlooked, part of any comprehensive security strategy. Most strategies are focused on keeping threats outside the network from coming in, but what about ...

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 ...

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 ...

If a company has experienced a security breach, it’s often difficult to quantify the IT risks to the organization. In the face of a threat to information resources and customer confidence, the company ...