Hearing or reading about hacking in one form or another has become an almost daily occurrence, with even the largest companies feeling the sting (just look at the Sony breach in April 2011, which left millions of gamers without access to the Playstation Network for weeks). The mere mention of hacking to the general public […]

To tweet or not to tweet… Twitter raises important issues about privacy, free speech, censorship as well as individual rights and responsibilities. Of course, there is nothing stopping a person from self-incriminating themselves by tweets revealing illegal conduct such as the reports of a doctor on sick leave. How Can A Tweet Lead to Prosecution? […]

Almost monthly the news includes a press release from CEOP or the National Crime Agency relating to unlawful images and the individuals attempting to find such material. The Government has also recently publicised a policy in which Service Providers automatically block the ability for the user to access pornographic websites under the proviso that, rightly […]

Everyone has felt the effects of the ‘Credit Crunch’ and the resulting recession, with ever-tightening budgets forcing people to rethink their working strategies and to ‘trim the fat’. Whilst the recession has had greater and lesser effects within different industries, heads of Hi-Tech Crime Units dealing with computer forensic investigations have been faced with holding […]