Color Management Module

I received a question asking, "what's the Color Management Module and what does it do?"

Fair enough. The Color Management Module, sometimes called the Color Management Engine, is used to translate colours from one known colour space to another known colour space. It uses ICC profiles to manage this transition.

You can find the available modules in the Convert to Profile dialog and the Color Settings dialog.

Enjoy.

Computer Forensics Seminar

This was sent in by a reader of the blog. Many thanks for sharing this with us.

Panel of Experts.

You'll hear a panel of distinguished experts, with over 30 years of combined experience in the field of computer forensics, talk about the current challenges and opportunities in their field. They will also discuss why the Mac is their preferred choice for doing this type of work. 

The panel includes:

• Detective Mark Honken, L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Forensics investigator and member of the Southern California Hi-Tech Task Force
• Marko Kostyrko, CEO of Subrosasoft. Developer of tools for law enforcement such as MacForensicsLab and MacLockPick
• Derrick Donnelly, CTO of BlackBag Technologies. Developer, trainer, expert witness, former Canadian Law Enforcement Officer (computer crime)

Best Practices, Tips and Tricks

You'll learn recommended procedures, best practices, and tips and tricks for undertaking a forensics examination

You'll Learn:

• How to perform triage at a crime scene to capture evidence
• How to prepare for a forensics examination and protect the integrity of the evidence
• How to use several tools to identify and capture evidence from a suspect system
• How Mac OS X Leopard provides unique and powerful capabilities for forensics examinations

Who should watch:

Law Enforcement, Intelligence and Security-focused I.T. Professionals who perform computer forensics and e-discovery examinations

Click here to join the fun.

Bootlegs and the problems that they cause

"An internal Federal Bureau of Investigation presentation states that counterfeit Cisco routers imported from China may cause unexpected failures in American networks. The equipment could also leave secure systems open to attack through hidden backdoors."

So begins this interesting article on the ZDNet blog.

Enjoy.

Evidence Ready CCTV Standard Launched in the UK

From the Forensic Video Analysis Group, London, UK:

"The Evidence Ready CCTV standards licensing programme has been designed to help the police retrieve evidence quickly and easily by providing them with all the information they need to export and view the evidence."

Click here to read more about this interesting development. Pay particular attention to the specifications in the agreement. The first questions that I asked myself is, "how can 'Export of recorded footage without the appropriate playback software onto Compact disc (CD) and/or digital versatile disc (DVD) and/or universal serial bus (USB) device' be considered evidence ready?" Won't you need the player to play back the footage in it's native form?

Enjoy.

Forensic Photoshop a Indie Excellence Finalist

This just in:

Forensic Photoshop, the book, has been selected as a finalist in the 2008 Indie Excellence Awards.

"The Indie Excellence Book Awards are dedicated to

celebrating and promoting the outstanding work of

independent publishers and authors."

-Dan Poynter, author of The Self Publishing Manual

and 100 other books

Zoom Level for Sharpening

Many Forensic Video Analysts are now stuck working with images from video that are in the CIF and QCIF range. Sharpening these images can be an exercise in futility.

But what about multi-megapixel images? When dealing with images that are over 2000 pixels in any one direction, try dialing back the zoom level to 50%. At this level, you'll get just the right amount of detail (though you may want to jump up to 100% to check noise in the midtones/shadows and back again).

Enjoy.

Private browsing

Many folks share computers and don't want their browsing history open to prying eyes. Enter Safari, Apple's cool web browser.

Simply turn on Private Browsing from the Edit menu and things like auto-fill and page history are not saved between sessions.

You can download Safari for Windows or Mac for free. Click here to get your copy today.

Enjoy.

Best Seller Again

Forensic Photoshop on Blurb's Best Seller List

The book continues to do well. There was a brief time where the book was knocked off of the best seller list. But, thanks to continued strong sales ... it's back!

Thanks again for all of your support!

Cross examination questions

Here is a link to an excellent piece on questions that you may face in court during cross examination.

The list is fairly long and the folks at SEAK have done well in putting together such a comprehensive list. It's better to be prepared than caught unaware.

Enjoy.

Be careful what you say in court

A reader sent some links to expert witness depositions that ended up on YouTube. When you are done, check out the others that are linked to the ones listed below. It's a great time waster.

Click here for the first.

Click here for the second.

Enjoy.