IT forensic investigators peer into the minds of criminals. guidance spruill interview. Criminals try to hide information on their 200 GByte harddrives and portable devices like an iPod or cellular phone, but computer forensic investigators can usually recover the data. He teaches computer forensic classes at Cal State Fullerton and is a Reserve Police Officer in Orange County California. According to Spruill, increasing harddrive capacities have definitely changed the forensic landscape. He tells his forensic students and fellow cops "not to look for devices, but to look for the USB or Firewire connector and grab the wire and everything connected to it."...

Forensic software takes aim at the iPhone. iPhone forensic software. iPhone owners and software developers aren’t the only ones complaining about the access restrictions to their iPhone, it is also pretty much the only cellphone that is giving government agencies and criminal investigators a tough time accessing data... Paraben today released Device Seizure 2.0, which is the first version of the application and, to our knowledge, the first forensic application that can retrieve data from iPhones. “With a variety of options used, the new release of Device Seizure 2.0 will stop the elusiveness of the Apple iPhone and allow for quality forensic evidence to be gathered,” the company said. And even if Paraben got through to the device, the information that actually can be retrieved for forensic purposes is limited to the address book, the SMS history, call logs, calendar, notes and the file system....

Microsoft's Forensic USB Key Not As Evil As First Thought. microsoft usb key. Redmond (WA) - The initial uproar over news of Microsoft's forensic USB thumb-drive appears to be misplaced.. Redmond (WA) - The initial uproar over news of Microsoft’s forensic USB key appears to be misplaced. Seattle Times reporter Benjamin Romano wrote about Microsoft’s COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) device yesterday. Cranton added that the device doesn’t contain any new tools, but is rather just an easy to use forensic tool....