Gone are the days of spending two hours writing a police statement.

In Derbyshire, officers are swapping their notebooks and pens for a small memory card, so that hours of film can be gathered as evidence on something as small as a fingerprint.

It is the latest way to get the best out of technology that’s already been tried and tested.

Headcams have been worn by police officers in other parts of the country for quite a while, but here in Derby city centre they’re being used alongside a new computer system which means officers can store and retrieve the footage quickly and easily.

In the time it takes to burn the evidence onto a DVD, an officer could be back out onto the street.

From BBC News.

In November I did a presentation at the monthly NebraskaCert Cyber Security Forum. Someone had suggested an overview of forensic tools. I put together a list of free tools in a couple different categories. Here is the list:

Imaging

FTK Imager
http://www.accessdata.com/downloads.html

Forensic Acquisition Utilities (FAU)
http://gmgsystemsinc.com/fau/

Carving

Winhex
http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/

PhotoRec
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Scalpel
http://www.digitalforensicssolutions.com/Scalpel/

Analyze

ProDiscover Basic
http://www.techpathways.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=9&tabid=14

The Sleuthkit and Autopsy
http://www.sleuthkit.org/

PTK
http://ptk.dflabs.com/

WinHex
http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/

PyFlag
http://www.pyflag.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi

FTK Demo (up to 5000 items)
http://www.accessdata.com/downloads.html

SANS SIFT Workstation (only available to portal members)
http://forensics.sans.org/community/downloads/

Memory Analysis

mdd
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=228865

win32dd
http://win32dd.msuiche.net/

Volatility
https://www.volatilesystems.com/default/volatility

Memoryze
http://www.mandiant.com/software/memoryze.htm

Virtualization

LiveView (launch image in VMWare)
http://liveview.sourceforge.net/

ProDiscover Basic (creates config files)
http://www.techpathways.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=9&tabid=14

VDKWin (edit config files)
http://petruska.stardock.net/Software/VMware.html

Live CDs

Helix
http://www.e-fense.com/helix/

Caine
http://www.caine-live.net/en/index.html

PlainSight
http://www.plainsight.info/download.html

BAckTrack (**will mount drives, but has forensic tools)
http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html

Misc.

RegRipper (excellent Registry parser)
http://regripper.net/

Forensic CaseNotes
http://www.qccis.com/?section=casenotes

NirSoft Tools
http://www.nirsoft.net/

Historian
http://www.mandiant.com/software/webhistorian.htm

Windows File Analyzer
http://www.mitec.cz/wfa.html

Websites

http://windowsir.blogspot.com

http://forensicir.blogspot.com

http://sansforensics.wordpress.com

www.ForensicFocus.com

www.E-Evidence.info

www.google.com