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The digital age has brought many advantages to individuals and businesses alike since it started. However, it has also brought a whole host of problems with it as well. More people can tap into technology for fraudulent or criminal means, which has, of course, made business far more vulnerable than it ever has been before. This is why the idea of using digital forensics in the public sector has become more and more prevalent over the past few years.

Specialists in digital forensics can determine whether any incident of misuse or criminal activity has taken place on a computer which enables the company and the police if necessary to take the appropriate action. Outsourcing such work is actually more cost effective than running internal departments.

It is not just employers that may benefit from digital forensics in the public sector today though. It may also help employees to prove their innocence in terms of an allegation that has been made and has essentially been reason for the termination of employment.

Its Friday today and i am presenting some useful links on information security. Hope they benefit you all.

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The U.S. advisory firm KPMG, recently launched a new product - GETS 2.0.  Global Evidence Tracking System 2.0 (GETS 2.0) will help clients track physical and logical evidence for investigation projects - from collection through the processing and production stages. It is designed to provide a systematic order of digital evidence, preservation of processed data, and document the chain of custody for digital evidence.

In addition, it also includes a task history feature that provides a detailed processing status and history of each item of evidence.

Thus, GETS 2.0 is designed to provide clients with a tailored approach to digital forensic evidence management. The tracking system will not only enhance the data collection process, but also the preservation process.

Anthony Reyes and Jack Wiles present the first book that combines cyber crime and digital forensic topics to provides law enforcement and IT security professionals with the information needed to manage a digital investigation.

It provides a step by step approach for analyzing forensic data and recovering digital evidence. Also it includes instructions for building a digital forensics lab.

A new crime fighting tool: FRED has been launched for digital data recovery.
FRED is an acronym for Forensic Recovery Evidence Device and is a powerful computer using advanced technologies. It has a single mission; which is to recover digital evidence from whatever electronic devices that may have been used in the commission of a crime.

FRED can recover information from different hard drives and other data storage devices like floppy discs, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Compact Flash, Micro Drives, Smart Media, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, xD Cards and secure digital media and multimedia cards.

This means that devices ranging from cell phones to iPods to servers to supercomputers can be interrogated by FRED, thus helping in digital forensic process and cyber crime investigations.

This presentation highlights the challenges of cyber forensic investigation and explains the need of having a forensic lab. It also explains the procedures and strategies for creating a new forensic lab.

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A very fresh incident of digitally altering the photos has come up from Iran.

Sepah News website owned by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards had published an image of their missile launch on 9 July. The initially published image showed 4 missiles launching at the same time. But on 10 July, they published a similar image, but showing only 3 missiles.

The whole purpose of these launches was to demonstrate Iran’s capabilities in which several missiles were test-fired, including an enhanced version of the Shahab-3. But the photo showing one out of four rockets failing did not have the intended impact.

Rather Iran has been criticized by many people for doctoring the photos. Also forensic experts have stressed on the fact that the technological advancements leads to such malpractices, and digital forensics would be the only option if such fake photos make people suffer.

Have you been tired of figuring out the genuineness of a photograph? Spent hours in searching and trying to figure out the exact photo you were looking for? Or someone altered your photograph and misused it on the web? Is someone trying to infringe your photos/images?

For answers to all such questions refer the articles which help in identifying whether the photos are doctored or not. Here are the links:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=digital-image-forensics

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=5-ways-to-spot-a-fake&print=true