Who Can Access Your Data?
September 29th, 2011
One of the questions that the consultants at EFS E-Forensic Services are regularly asked is “Is my data safe in the Cloud?” More and more services are appearing that offer online or Cloud storage to both businesses and individual users. Offsite secure storage of important files and backups has been part of the disaster recovery process for many years. It
Virtual World Crimes for the “Meatspace Investigator”
November 29th, 2010
Spurred on by the rapid advancements in Internet speed and technology, a multitude of virtual worlds have evolved to enable people to live a second “virtual” life. To virtual world residents wizards, warriors and witches are nothing new; they are part of the virtual world that they inhabit for many hours each day. The residents have established real communities with
Man Verses Metadata
October 7th, 2010
Metadata is often referred to as “information about information”, basically information about the creation, manipulation and storage of the document it refers too. Before the explosion of Electronic documents in the business world, nearly all contracts, agreements and business documents were written on paper. Paper contains very little information other than what’s written on it and is often referred to
Sensitive Data and International Travel
February 12th, 2010
Recently I started thinking of warmer climates and getting a little more sun this time of year. In fact maybe a trip south of the border would be nice. Suffering from these thoughts I contemplated taking my laptop with me. Yes I admit it, I’m a geek. I like to bring some sort of technology when I travel whether it’s
A Case for Contracting Out
January 18th, 2010
Performing Computer Forensic Analysis is a very specialized function. There is often debate over training in house staff to perform the work vs. contracting out the work. On the private sector side this can often be relegated to a matter of money and efficiency. Is there enough “computer forensic analysis” requirements within the company to keep a Computer Forensic Analyst
Observations in a Digital World
December 1st, 2009
Our new business is taking up much of our time, thus Blogs have currently taken a back seat. We hope to soon post articles and information of interest not only to our clients but the Computer Forensics community as well. I found the following interesting. These stats are available from the Web and are American, however they do provide food
Open Source Evidence from Social Media?
An interesting thing happened recently. As I’m a creature of habit, my early morning routine is just that, routine. I make a large jug of coffee, watch the morning news and read through my email. On this day I had a Facebook email, stating my friend request had been accepted. An interesting email to be sure as I had not been on
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