Today’s Golden Age of computer forensics is quickly coming to an end. Without a clear strategy for enabling research efforts that build upon one another, forensic research will fall behind the market, tools will become increasingly obsolete, and law enforcement, military and other users of computer forensics products will be unable to rely on the results of forensic analysis. This article summa...

In contrast to the USA and the UK, the academic field of forensic computing is still in its infancy in Germany. To foster the exchange of experiences, we report on lessons learnt in teaching two graduate level courses in forensic computing at a German university. The focus of the courses was to give a research-oriented introduction into the field. The first course, a regular lecture, was accomp...

CONTEXT Modern medical practice involves cost analysis of therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. There are no papers dealing with this theme in relation to forensic autopsies in our country. OBJECTIVE Analysis of direct costs of forensic autopsies. TYPE OF STUDY Cost analysis. SETTING São Paulo Medical Examiner's Central Office. SAMPLE Year 2001 activity. PROCEDURES Routine forensic a...

Forensic science has been developed in the twentieth century and came to be recognized by the courts and law enforcement. Forensic analysis and investigation capabilities are vital in criminal and civil cases, national security, environmental protection, and public safety. The manufacture and trafficking of illicit drugs and counterfeiting of legitimate pharmaceuticals, new emerging challenges ...

Modern computers are beginning to surpass the design limitations of the aging DOS/MBR partition tables and BIOS boot system. As disk sizes begin to exceed two terabytes and hardware vendors begin to transition from BIOS to EFI, understanding GPT disks in forensic examinations becomes useful. This practitioner paper provides an overview of the GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme from the perspecti...

With the increasing scale of digital forensic investigations, there is a need for approaches that are capable of reducing the quantities of data forensic examiners are required to search. As this trend continues, traditional quiescent digital forensic analysis is in some cases becoming impractical; examiners must often rely on an in-situ investigation of the live computing environment. Numerous...

An embedded system is a special-purpose computer system designed to perform one or a few dedicated functions, for example, just portable devices such as MP3 players, cell phone, to telemetric system like car navigation system etc. The more embedded systems are diversifying various types, the more forensic community is concentrating on efforts of research correspond to all kinds of embedded syst...

The analysis of substances of abuse remains one of the most matured areas in forensic science with a strong scientific basis, namely analytical chemistry. The current evolving drug markets, characterized by the global emergence of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and the need for forensic scientists to identify an unprecedented and ever-increasing number of NPS, presents a unique challenge to ...

It has been 20 years since the first development of DNA fingerprinting and the start of forensic DNA typing. Ever since, human tandem repeat DNA sequences have been the main targets for forensic DNA analysis. These repeat sequences are classified into minisatellites (or VNTRs) and microsatellites (or STRs). In this brief review, we discuss the historical and current forensic applications of suc...

In forensic science, soil, dust, and vegetable traces have as high a value as evidence as classical traces such as fingerprints or toolmarks. It is imperative that the potential information in these traces can be identified by a combination of analytical methods selected by a qualified expert. Experience has shown that the best results can be expected when all of the aspects of evidence, includ...