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Athenaforensics.co. Employment tribunals are expensive and can be risky, if the case is lost then the employer will be responsible for damages to the previous employee(s).

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It is, therefore, vital that an employer ensures that any supporting evidence of wrongdoing is identified and prepared in accordance with relevant guidelines so that it can be relied upon. Commonly cases of data theft occur when an employee leaves to work for or to setup a rival business, taking with them important customer information and company sales data. More simply, many employees consider files that they have worked with as their own and do not consider it to be theft. However during 2011 saw a 41% growth in employee's dishonestly claiming benefits from their employer that they were not entitled to. Counter fraud professionals have also highlighted it as the biggest threat to their organisation in future years. With employers allowing their employees to 'BYOD' this practice has resulted in data breaches. Researcher creates proof-of-concept malware that infects BIOS, network cards. Security researcher Jonathan Brossard created a proof-of-concept hardware backdoor called Rakshasa that replaces a computer's BIOS (Basic Input Output System) and can compromise the operating system at boot time without leaving traces on the hard drive.

Researcher creates proof-of-concept malware that infects BIOS, network cards

Brossard, who is CEO and security research engineer at French security company Toucan System, demonstrated how the malware works at the Defcon hacker conference on Saturday, after also presenting it at the Black Hat security conference on Thursday. Rakshasa, named after a demon from the Hindu mythology, is not the first malware to target the BIOS -- the low-level motherboard firmware that initializes other hardware components. However, it differentiates itself from similar threats by using new tricks to achieve persistency and evade detection. Pensioner dies just days after robbers target him.

27 July 2012 Neighbours of Robert Gardiner (74), told the Belfast Telegraph they believe he would still be alive if he hadn’t been assaulted at his Ashley Avenue address last Friday night by men posing as Water Board officials.

Pensioner dies just days after robbers target him

Mr Gardiner’s home was ransacked and thieves made off with his phone and a bank card at around 8pm. The pensioner, described as a “small, frail wee man” who was just five feet tall, fled to a neighbour’s house to raise the alarm. Mr Gardiner was left badly shaken and bruised following his ordeal. Described as a creature of habit, he hadn’t been seen in the area since Saturday afternoon. The decline of gun crime: Shot. Fight is on to save ambulance stations - Local.

A TOWN councillor is calling for plans to close Bourne ambulance station and 64 others to be abandoned.

Fight is on to save ambulance stations - Local

The ambulance station in South Road, 65 other stations and 153 standby points could close as part of plans approved by the board of East Midlands Ambulance Service on Monday. They would be replaced by 131 tactical deployments points, where amenities for the crews are available, and 13 centralised hubs to support the crews and ambulances. The ambulance service said the service needs to change to meet response targets and that the existing ambulance stations are in poor condition and empty most of the time. But Bourne town councillor Brenda Johnson has questioned how it service plans to improve response times by moving stations out of the town.

Crack down on rogue motorists in Stamford and the Deepings to start in October - Local. PARKING wardens will be issuing tickets on the streets of Stamford and the Deepings from October.

Crack down on rogue motorists in Stamford and the Deepings to start in October - Local

But residents hoping they will be exempt from fines will have to wait at least a year for a permit scheme to be set up. Lincolnshire County Council will take over responsibility for issuing parking fines on October 1. Restrictions are rarely enforced at present because police forces no longer employ traffic wardens. Lincolnshire will be the last county in the country to take over parking enforcement duties. Tickets will be given out to drivers parked illegally or who stay beyond their time limits. Google admits to ICO it still has some UK Wi-Fi data. Google has admitted to the Information Commisioner's Office that it failed to delete all the Wi-Fi data collected by its Street View vehicles.

Google admits to ICO it still has some UK Wi-Fi data

Last month, the ICO demanded proof that the Wi-Fi data collected by the Google Street View vehicles was deleted, as had been agreed with Google in 2010. The ICO is among a number of data protection authorities that ordered a review of investigations after the recent release of a report on Google's Street View data capture by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), which revealed that a Google engineer had deliberately written software to enable Wi-Fi data collection. In a letter to the ICO, Google's global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, said Google had recently confirmed that it still has a small amount of the payload data collected in the UK.

"Google apologises for this error," Fleischer said. According to Fleischer, Google has been reviewing its handling of Street View data, involving thousands of disks. Email Alerts. Six sent to prison for UK insider dealing ring. LONDON (Reuters) - Six members of an illegal UK trading ring that netted 732,000 pounds were jailed on Friday for what the judge described as deliberate, planned and dishonest insider share dealing, marking another coup in the regulator's crackdown.

The four-and-a-half-month trial cost the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) 5 million pounds -- the longest and most complex prosecution to date in its "credible deterrence" drive against market abuses. "You knew precisely what you were doing," Judge Jeffrey Pegden told Southwark Crown Court in London, adding that an element of deterrence was included in the prison terms because of the time-consuming nature of such cases.

"Insider dealing is not a victimless crime," he said. "Those involved are criminals, no more, no less. " The convicted six betrayed the principles of confidentiality and trust that are essential to the operation of the commercial world, he added. Vince Vaughn takes on risky role - News, Film & TV. 26 July 2012 The Dodgeball star will also co-produce the film with his company Wild West Picture Show Productions after they acquired the rights to the book by Ridley Pearson, Deadline reports.

Vince Vaughn takes on risky role - News, Film & TV

Vince will play John Knox, an expert in combat and culture who works for Chinese firm Rutherford Risk, which specialises in hostage extraction, from negotiation to recovery. Kiaran Stapleton guilty of murdering Anuj Bidve in Salford. Could not load plugins: File not found The father of Anuj Bidve says Kiaran Stapleton 'openly laughed' in court at the memory of his son Link to video: Anuj Bidve's father says Kiaran Stapleton 'laughed at the memory of our son' A man who shot an Indian student on a street in Salford in the early hours of Boxing Day has been convicted of murder.

Kiaran Stapleton guilty of murdering Anuj Bidve in Salford

The jury at Manchester crown court found Kiaran Stapleton, 21, guilty of murdering 23-year-old Anuj Bidve, after a four-week trial. Stapleton had referred to himself as "Psycho" in an earlier hearing. Subhash Bidve, Anuj's father said his son had carried with him the hopes and dreams of the family and was the "kindest and most genuine person on this Earth".

Cellebrite-delivers-first-physical-extraction-solution-for-nokia-bb5-devices-163876046. PETACH TIKVA, Israel, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Latest Update to UFED Series Product Family Enhances Support for World Leading Mobile Handset Platform Cellebrite, the leading provider of mobile forensic solutions world-wide, has today announced that it is the first and only company in the industry to enable physical extraction from locked and unlocked Nokia BB5 devices.

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Using Cellebrite's proprietary boot loaders, the Nokia BB5 physical extraction method is carried out via the UFED Ultimate and UFED Touch Ultimate. This capability is immediately available to new and existing customers with an active ultimate license. According to an IDC report published in February 2012, Nokia is the leading mobile handset manufacturer in the world, with a market share of 27% and global sale shipments of more than 417 million in 2011.* As a result, investigators regularly encounter a vast quantity of Nokia devices, and must rapidly recover the existing, hidden and deleted evidentiary data inside. Wrecked Tile Hill nursery gets £1,000 donation from traders.

BUTCHERS have come to the aid of a nursery which was smashed up by thieves last week.

Wrecked Tile Hill nursery gets £1,000 donation from traders

Seashells Pre-School has received a £1,000 donation from the traders after burglars ransacked its St James Church Hall premises in Tile Hill. Coventry and District Meat Traders Association read in the Telegraph how heartless raiders made off with the nursery’s laptop and two digital cameras. The break-in left doors smashed, a hole in the ceiling, furniture broken – and toddlers’ artwork was even ripped from the walls. The nursery was able to claim some money on insurance but was left with a £600 shortfall. The butchers’ donation leaves them with £400 left to buy new equipment. RIP Andre Hedrick: The engineer who kept the PC open. High performance access to file storage Obituary Andre Hedrick, a principal engineer and operating system architect at Cisco Systems and a Linux kernel contributor, has died. He leaves behind a wife, four young children and many friends. Andre made a significant contribution to personal computing history in a way few people fully realise.

In 2000, Andre was working for SuSE in Oakland and was looking after the Linux ATA subsystem, the operating system's interface with industry-standard hard disks. He was also a member of the ANSI sub-committee, T13, which defined the standard for ATA disks. AccessData releases new version of cyber intelligence application. Security by CBR Staff Writer| 26 July 2012 The new application gives organisations the ability to identify and address all types of threats, including zero-day events, hacking, data spillage and advanced persistent threats. LIMPOPO PROVINCE : Spoiling for a punch-up [501815978] Political factions are battling for control of a key South African province as central government steps in to control its finances. The outcome may affect nothing less than the future of the ruling party. Polokwane beware, the bean-counters are coming!

The provincial government of Limpopo, the country’s most northerly province and a hotbed of political factionalism, is under siege. Leading the charge is an army of accountants, lawyers and forensic auditors. They claim Limpopo is South Africa’s worst-run province. In November 2011, the national government seized control of five provincial departments in Limpopo, including the treasury. Local politicians ask why the investigators were sent in only after they showed their opposition to a second term for President Zuma. Line of Duty: series one, episode five. Spoiler alert: Don't read on if you haven't watched episode five of BBC2's Line of Duty Sarah Hughes's episode four blog So in the end it turned out that the quietly lurking Dot, the man with one of the best snide smirks on television, was the real super villain – while Gates, like many a man before him, was just a fool led astray by a temptress.

Nor was Gates the only one to turn out to be less than the sum of his parts. Although I loved the reveal regarding Dot – in particular the clever line about meeting a man on a golf course and it opening his eyes – it did rather feel that Line of Duty was ultimately not quite as great as it should have been. Grant to tackle future energy challenges - Business News. A PROJECT led by technology innovation firm the Advanced Digital Institute to explore the development of the “next generation” of virtual power plants has won £100,000-worth of funding. Managing the risk of intellectual property theft in a highly connected business. Only Connect: On quality (and Olympics transmissions) (Electro-ramblings) Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has over 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly.

Imagine that you’re the guy who’s job it is to make sure the live audio stream for the Olympics is broadcast around the world to an audience eager to here the latest results. Then, just at that critical moment, dead air… Your worst nightmare comes true. Wolverhampton phone box explosion. An explosion in a Wolverhampton phone box – believed to have been caused by fireworks – brought disruption to businesses today. Forget plumbers. Forget shaming individuals. Tax avoidance is systemic. Treasury minister David Gauke says paying your plumber in cash to get a discount is morally wrong. In doing so, he is reducing tax avoidance to an issue that boils down to individual responsibility: when you pay someone cash in hand to save on paperwork or reduce the costs of fixing your central heating, you are defrauding the state, taking money from the NHS and police force, reducing the money available for public infrastructure projects. In this context, naming and shaming those guilty of tax avoidance and their advisers seems to make sense.

John Terry braced for FA decision on Anton Ferdinand abuse charge. STEM report on higher education recommends employers work closely with universities. Thousands of UK students are eagerly awaiting their GCSE and A-level results, with just weeks to go until they find out if they have made it through to the next step on their chosen career paths. But with unemployment on the rise, how can people know they have chosen the right career, the right route, and the right course? The V3 Hot Seat: NetSuite European managing director Paul Auffermann - IT Interview from V3.co.uk.

Paul Auffermann is the European managing director for NetSuite, a role he has held since 2011. Life Technologies to Compete in $10 Million Archon Genomics X PRIZE. LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - July 23, 2012) - The X PRIZE Foundation today announced that Life Technologies Corporation (: ) is the first team to officially register under the new guidelines for the Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by Express Scripts where teams will compete for up to $10 million by being the first to rapidly and accurately sequence 100 whole human genomes at a cost of $1,000 or less each to a standard never before achieved.

Life-technologies-and-saturn-collaborate-to-increase-access-to-hiv-testing-in-africa-163526446. Climategate detective: 'I'm deeply disappointed' we didn't catch hacker. If Apple did computer forensics… « Happy as a Monkey. Forensic and system software tools. Office Documents, Instant Messengers, Browsers, Mailboxes, Pictures and Videos search, analysis and extraction. Find Digital Evidence quickly! Forensic Imaging of Hard Disk Drives- What we thought we knew « Forensic Focus – Articles. Police hunting successful businesswoman who vanished from home release CCTV of two women caught using her cash cards.

Why is India so bad for women? An international student: unable to leave, not entitled to stay. Wiltshire shooting: Solicitor James Ward who was blasted in the head with a sawn-off shotgun as he sat in his office has died after three weeks in hospital. New band of the day – No 1,314: Leverage Models. Man jailed for 1966 murder of nanny Yolande Waddington. Police release CCTV images in case of missing woman. Laptop containing health data stolen from Boston hospital. Soham tragedy: Parents of Holly Wells speak out 10 years after she was murdered by Ian Huntley. Security Excellence Awards 2012: finalists announced! - News - Security industry news and information. Teen arrested on suspicion of stabbing his mother - Doncaster news. Ex-Freshfields senior partner Salz set to head up Barclays Libor inquiry. The Dark Knight Rises star Anne Hathaway labels Denver shooting 'unfathomably senseless act'

BREAKING: Two charged with murder after body found in South Yorkshire - Local. Marines set up law enforcement operation. Aurora shooting victims and families to meet Obama as police dig for motive. Woman (66) dies following blaze tragedy at her home. Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton – review. Boy, 16, held in woman murder probe - UK, Local & National.

The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott – review. Let the public see complaints against police like Simon Harwood. Chile authorities investigate child sex abuse claims in 61 schools. Memories of Wireless Communications Expo. Letters: Police procedures: trial and error. Bare-faced bankers should be treated as criminals: prosecuted and imprisoned. Aurora theater shooting: police look for motive as details from attack emerge. Woman (66) dies following blaze tragedy at her home. Lorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes was doctoral student. Tributes paid to DJ killed in road smash - Republic of Ireland, Local & National. The story of the BBC, as told by its buildings. Lorado theater shooting: 12 shot dead during The Dark Knight Rises screening. Dairy farmers blockade processing plants in protest at milk prices.

Op arrives as high street banking presence with Lloyds deal. Ian Tomlinson case: Simon Harwood cleared, but questions remain. Simon Harwood not guilty of killing Ian Tomlinson. Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres. Hotel worker murdered colleagues at sex party – and then hid inside bed - UK, Local & National. Hacker breaches 50,000 ITWallStreet.com accounts, posts data online. ITWallStreet.com. Birmingham riot deaths CCTV footage found not to support prosecution case. Murder rate falls as crime figures defy recession predictions. Syria crisis: aftermath of Damascus asssassinations - live updates. BP upgrades Microsoft Exchange in the cloud. Follow-the-smart-money-with-ground-breaking-research-at-the-ibc-leaders-summit-163030336. Factory-forensics-and-previewing-the-dilemma-of-money-vs-time-during-the-recession#.UAfkYuTZvew. Athenaforensics.co. Forensics & Investigations. Computer Forensics - Athena Forensics UK's leading Expert Witness.