While the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been spending a lot of time advancing the technology behind forensics, the agency can so only go so far. With all of the ways people can be ...

A digital forensics expert prepares to extract data from a mobile phone. (R. Press/NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published Digital Investigation Techniques: A ...

Crime scene tape across a burial site during a week-long field of study at the "Body Farm" at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. (FBI photo) The National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Like the use of forensics at a physical crime scene, digital forensics is the use of science to find critical data in an investigation, extract it from a computer and then analyze it for some purpose.

When experts compare the DNA left at a crime scene with the DNA of a suspect, they generate statistics that describe how closely those DNA samples match. These match statistics are reliable because ...