Open Tabs – 19th February 2012

BOFH: Moon landings, Pong and the case of the smoking server – Embrace, extend, exterminate … Two UK airports scrap IRIS eye-scanners – I’m glad I didn’t pay in to be part of this. The ICO has been busy… Sensitive council data sent to hundreds via PERSONAL EMAIL – ICO fines Cheshire East £80k for data breach Child abuse files […]

Digital Forensics in the Cloud: 5 Hot Skills

When it comes to collecting forensic evidence from cloud providers and determining whether a data breach has occurred, what used to take two weeks now takes a month for Greg Thompson, vice president of enterprise security services at Scotia Bank. “Often we find it is a challenge to get sufficient forensic data from the cloud to prove […]

A Career in Digital Forensics: 5 Key Steps

Joseph Naghdi, an experienced computer technologist, transitioned to digital forensics in early 2000 because he was intrigued by how data is stored and discovered on computers. Today, he’s a forensics analyst at Computer Forensics Lab, aU.K.consultancy specializing in computer forensic services and advanced data recovery. Thehigh pointof his work, he says, is when he solves […]