Forensics

Greene County to ask MU for forensics help (KOAM-TV Pittsburg)

7 Sep 2008

Associated Press - September 6, 2008 5:14 PM ET SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Officials in Greene County in southwest Missouri might contract with the University of Missouri-Columbia for forensic...

Identifying a Culprit In a Bloodbath (Slashdot)

6 Sep 2008

worromot writes "A group of geneticists published a method to determine if a given individual's DNA is present in a mixture (e.g., in a pool of blood on a carpet). An individual's DNA can comprise less than 1% of the mixture. (The article is in open access on PLoS Genetics website.) While this is a potential boon for forensics, there are more immediate worries about the privacy of the ...

Metro briefs (Birmingham News)

6 Sep 2008

UAB researchers are warning the public about "work at home" job e-mails. According to Gary Warner, the University of Alabama at Birmingham's director of research in computer forensics, the number of work-at-home jobs offered in spam e-mails has increased with the back-to-school season.