Live digital forensics presents unique challenges with respect to maintaining forensic soundness, but also offers the ability to examine information that is unavailable to quiescent analysis. Any perturbation of a live operating system by a forensic examiner will have far-reaching effects on the state of the system being analysed. Numerous approaches to live digital forensic evidence acquisitio...

J osé Almirall started his career 31 years ago in the forensic science laboratory of the Miami-Dade police department. Now a professor at Florida International University, he develops analytical tools for forensic investigators, including matching broken glass shards to their source using trace-element analysis and detecting crime-related volatiles, such as those found in drugs or gunshot resid...

In this article, we present a novel forensic speaker recognition system that provides the capability to perform comparisons using both ‘traditional’ forensic phonetic parameters and ‘automatic’ spectral features in a semior fully automatic way. We evaluate this approach with simulated and real forensic case data in German, which ranges from high quality laboratory audio data to real telephone i...

This paper describes a novel, XML-based approach towards managing and querying forensic traces extracted from digital evidence. This approach has been implemented in XIRAF, a prototype system for forensic analysis. XIRAF systematically applies forensic analysis tools to evidence files (e.g., hard disk images). Each tool produces structured XML annotations that can refer to regions (byte ranges)...

Analysis of mitochondrial DNA in forensic samples is routinely carried out by direct sequencing of hypervariable regions within the non-coding displacement loop. Although the accuracy and sensitivity of this method cannot be questioned, it is both time-consuming and labor intensive. Finding a way to rapidly pre-screen forensic samples-prior to sequencing, to reduce the number of samples that ne...

For many reasons, forensic toxicologists are being asked to determine and report their measurement uncertainty in blood alcohol analysis. While understood conceptually, the elements and computations involved in determining measurement uncertainty are generally foreign to most forensic toxicologists. Several established and well-documented methods are available to determine and report the uncert...

With the growth of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), pocket-sized digital music players and smart phones the need for digital forensic tools that can acquire and analyse these devices has also been growing. PDD is a utility designed to acquire images of the memory of Palm OS based PDAs for forensic analysis. The use of volatile Random Access Memory (RAM) by Palm PDAs can have an effect on fore...

The advent of the Internet has significantly transformed the daily activities of millions of people, with one of them being the way people communicate where Instant Messaging (IM) and Voice over IP (VoIP) communications have become prevalent. Although IM applications are ubiquitous communication tools nowadays, it was observed that the relevant research on the topic of evidence collection from ...

The basic aspects of capillary electrophoresis (CE) such as: instrumentation, separation modes and its chief domains of use in forensic analysis are presented. Micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MECC), capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) and chiral separations – the most often used separation modes in drugs analysis – are described. The main directions of development of CE metho...

Aims: The present work examined the applications of Bioinformatics in carrying out the analysis of DNA Fingerprints, which are used in the forensic sciences to investigate the crime or to establish the genetic relationship. Methods: Experiment, includes first to identify and generate DNA profile of the sample under investigation by using different techniques like RFLP analysis, PCR analysis, ST...