The NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit are aware of a mass email spamming event that is ongoing, where people are receiving emails that appear to be from banks and other financial institutions. The emails may be sent out to tens of millions of UK customers, but appear to be targeting small and medium […]
Request for comments – I would be interested in knowing your thoughts and opinions on the topic of “Digital Forensics within Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Environments. For my sins I have chosen this as the subject for my dissertation and although I could happily write thousands upon thousands of words (Plenty of practice writing forensic reports…) of […]
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 […]
Sophos HQ in Abingdon on Saturday 14th January was the scene for the first face-to-face encounter in this year’s Cyber Security Challenge UK. Thirty talented candidates from across the UK battled in a malware hunt which exposed them to some of the criminal world’s nastiest pieces of malicious code, housed within the Sophos vaults.
There has been an unusual amount of banking downtime this week in the UK. Firstly with HSBC ATM and point of sale terminals being affected. preventing their customers with-drawing cash from ATM’s and making debit card transactions at the till and online. Followed swiftly by Natwest and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) following apparent ‘planned […]
Lulz Security’s spree of embarrassing hacks continued as the group released hundreds of internal documents belonging to various Arizona law enforcement agencies, including the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Many of the documents released over BitTorrent are stamped “law enforcement sensitive” and “for official use only,” and the dump of some 700 files contains material from […]
New Scotland Yard has confirmed that it has arrested a 19-year old suspected hacker in Essex, UK, in connection with a series of hacks and denial-of-service attacks against a number of organisations. It is being widely speculated that the arrest is in connection with the high-profile attacks by the LulzSec hacking group, which has claimed […]
The Metropolitan Police Service is investigating the cause of a “major network issue” that has prevented staff using some IT services for almost two weeks including aspects of the Police National Computer system.. A Met spokesman confirmed the problem was first identified on 9th June, but insisted no critical systems had been downed by the […]
A PIECE of software developed by a small Milton Keynes IT company has been taken up by one of the biggest computer companies in the world. Evidence Talks, based in Crownhill, has developed forensic intelligence software called SPEKTOR which can access and collect digital evidence for law enforcement agencies. The software has been bought by […]
The House of Commons’ perennial theft problem has become increasingly high tech, with sporadic thefts of computers in recent years turning into a veritable run on laptops, according to the latest figures. In a Commons answer last week, John Thurso detailed cases of theft on the Commons Estate over the last five years, for the […]