Digital forensics, computer forensics, or whatever you want to call the investigation and analysis of computer systems and digital media, is a challenging field that requires deep knowledge of the ...

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“It’s not as glamorous as the TV shows ‘Bones’ or ‘CSI,’ but forensic science is still a really exciting field,” said Claire Shepard, program coordinator for the forensic science technology program at ...

Universities.com rated the University of New Haven as the #1 Forensic Science Program in the U.S. For Morgan Korzik ’22 M.S., it was the stories he’d heard about his great grandfather, a Chicago ...

The primary difference lies in the nature of the devices under investigation. On the one hand, mobile forensics focuses on portable devices like smartphones and tablets, known for their compact sizes ...

It’s the hottest topic on prime time television, but crime scene investigation is increasingly more complex than what’s depicted in a glitzy one-hour drama. Information technology students at ...

Every now and then, forensic experts or just curious novices will have to investigate technologies using tools that are not always readily available. For that reason, this post explores simple ways ...

Computer forensics is the science of obtaining, preserving, documenting and presenting digital evidence, stored in the form of encoded information, from digital electronic storage devices such as ...

Please do not continue to encourage the improper use of the word “forensics” (“Forensics Courses Becoming Fixtures in Classrooms,” Oct. 28, 2009). The courses referred to in your recent article are ...

An international team has developed a novel tool to accurately predict eye, hair and skin color from human biological material -- even a small DNA sample -- left, for example, at a crime scene or ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. It’s been decades since the intersection of forensic science ...