Police Computer Forensics News & Articles

Big cases often hinge on small pieces of evidence ...

By Jeremy Kirk, IDG NewsLaw enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics ...

The U1 is essentially the handheld version of Panasonic’s line of ruggedized Toughbook laptops ...

For agencies including LAPD, Missouri State Patrol, Houston Police Department, and many others agencies, the ability to quickly and easily extract forensic information from a mobile telephone is about ...

Overstated or falsely reported blood evidence in dozens of cases, including three that ended in executions ...

By Tim DeesThe good news is that there are more surveillance cameras than ever before. The bad news is that most of the video from them is crappy. With a good video analysis/forensic system and a reasonably ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product EditorSalient Stills didn't get started working their video capture systems for law enforcement, but it's where they’ve been able to find a very lucrative – ...

Associated PressMINNEAPOLIS — A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement ...

Associated PressDES MOINES, Iowa — A Baltimore inmate who bluffed his way out of prison probably wouldn't have tricked guards if they had eye-scanners such as those being installed at dozens of jails ...

Pyramidal Technologies is set to release the long overdue update to the IBIS ballistics analysis system, using fully 3d images, and it's designed byMike Barrett, IBIS' lead developer. ...

Press release courtesy of New Zealand PoliceThe New Zealand Police's Electronic Crime Laboratory (ECL) celebrated its 25th anniversary today with the official launch of its new technology, EVE. The Minster ...

Computer forensics, also known as digital forensics, is the science of capturing and analyzing digital data, typically from computer mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, thumb drives, memory ...

In today’s world, law enforcement officers attempting to extract digital evidence face growing challenges from more types of devices with greater data storage capacity. Digital media that could be seized in relation to an offense include computers, laptops, flash drives, external storage devices, digital cameras, game units and cellular phones. Investigators, prosecutors and forensic examiners must deal with vastly more data than they did just a few years ago. ...

By Richard Winton Los Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Police Department fingerprint examiners who falsely implicated at least two people in crimes have been linked to nearly 1,000 other criminal ...