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A team of forensics artists have recently finished reconstructing the face of an ancient mummy, that was discovered buried in ice in the Italian Alps. The Iceman, which is believed to have lived some 5,300 years ago, has been named Ötzi.Currently, he resided in the South Tyrol Museum of Archeology, where visitor... |
10 March 2011
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A new DNA test makes it possible to estimate the age of a criminal by the blood he/she left behind, thus narrowing down the range of possible suspects.The test was developed by Manfred Kayser from the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues, and they say that their method needs... |
26 November 2010
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Offensive Security, leaders in Online information security training, proudly announced a few days ago, on November 19th, the immediate availability for download of a new BackTrack 4 release, their extremely popular security oriented operating system.Dubbed Nemesis, the new release of BackTrack 4 is now pow... |
23 November 2010
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The folks at BrickHouse Security have released a USB dongle that connects to an iPhone and downloads all of the information stored on the device, including deleted files.The best use for it, apparently, is to find out if your spouse is a cheater.The iPhone Spy Stick will be able to reveal this via detailed views of t... |
19 August 2010
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ElcomSoft, a company that develops computer forensics tools, has released an updated version of its Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker, a GPU-accelerated password-recovery tool to unlock encrypted iPhone and iPod touch backups. The new version adds iOS 4 support. Apple is expected to release the iOS 4 software update ... |
21 June 2010
10:50 GMT |
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For many years, forensics experts have been using fingerprints, and more recently DNA tests, as evidence in courtrooms. Many perpetrators were captured because they accidentally left behind the trace of one of their fingers on a random object, but now their leeway for error is about to get even smaller. According to ... |
16 March 2010
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In the mid-1990s, police investigators and forensics experts added a new tool to their inventory of methods for analyzing biological samples. They began running mitochondrial DNA comparison tests, under the assumption that each type of cell in the same individual would have the same type of genetic material in these ... |
4 March 2010
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Offensive Security, leaders in Online information security training, proudly announced last evening the final release of their extremely popular security oriented operating system, BackTrack 4. After quite a long development period, the team tried to make BackTrack 4 one of the perfect Linux distributions for securit... |
12 January 2010
03:36 GMT |
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Spanish researchers from the University of Salamanca have recently developed a new method of extracting metric data from single photographs of crime scenes. The group explains that its technique relies on making out the most important structural components of the picture, and then relating them to each other to recon... |
2 December 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Scientists at a laboratory in Paris believe they may have discovered another one of Leonardo da Vinci's works, when they have assessed that a fingerprint retrieved from a painting is “remarkably similar” to another one, found on a Vatican art piece. The second painting has been directly tied to the I... |
13 October 2009
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The Leicester Tigers Stadium conference, to be held at the Caterpillar Stand starting the 23rd of November, will be the first in the UK to witness discussions about the use of computed tomography (CT) scans and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in conducting autopsies. Arguing the validity of this idea will be the Uni... |
17 September 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Discovering dead bodies at accident scenes, disaster sites, and in graves hastily dug up by murderers is, at this point, a painstaking process, revolving mostly around a trial-and-error methodology. Some people who survive an earthquake, for instance, die under the rubble, but they cannot be found even after their de... |
17 August 2009
04:52 GMT |
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Using state-of-the-art forensics science, a police sketch artist who works with the Maryland Department of Justice and the State Police Missing Persons Unit has reconstructed the face of the University of Chicago-owned mummy of the ancient Thebes temple singer Meresamun. A second reconstruction has been done by Chica... |
24 June 2009
05:45 GMT |
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US experts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently announced that they are in the latter stages of developing a new investigation technique that will help forensics specialists in the manual portion of the latent fingerprint identification. This would free up a lot of time for the... |
24 April 2009
06:37 GMT |
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The Helix team has announced the release and immediate availability of the latest version of their Linux Distribution, called Helix 2008R1, but which is actually Helix 2.0. This version comes with a lot of changes over the previous release, both new additions and updated packages.Let's have a closer look at some... |
23 September 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Luminol is mostly known to us as a chemiluminescent compound used by law enforcements in crime scene investigations to detect traces of blood, even after the crime scene has been thoroughly cleaned in order to conceal the violent events that took place in a particular location. What is not usually told in various sho... |
7 July 2008
08:48 GMT |
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BlackRoute is yet another Slackware-based Linux distribution for security and forensic analysis, created for x86 compatible architectures. What is so special about BlackRoute is the fact that it tries to create an Open Source Linux distribution for advanced users, security and network specialists and system administr... |
3 September 2007
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