SANS DF/IR Summit, Forensic 4cast Awards, Forensic Focus Survey & more

Several items that caught my attention in the computer forensic 'blog-o-sphere' recently:

• The 2010 Digital Forensics and Incident Response Summit July 8th through July 15th in Washington DC which is just over a week away!
• Forensic 4cast Awards (Digital Forensic Awards) will be broadcast live from the 2010 Digital Forensics and Incident Response Summit on Thursday, July 8, 2010 beginning at 7:30pm Eastern Time and is FREE, open to the public, and will be streaming live. Get your vote in now! Hats off to Lee Whitfield with Forensic 4cast podcast for putting these awards together for a second year in a row and a thank you to SANS for providing the venue for such a prestigious event. While I will not be in attendance to the awards this year, I will be watching the feed streaming live.
• "...and the Laser Engraved Hard Drive goes to...." Sneak Peak
• Call for Participation in DFRWS 2010
• DFRWS 2010 Forensics Challenge
• DFRWS Challenge submission deadline is July 25, 2010. The challenge involves analysis of a cellular phone (images provided for both the memory and storage) as they relate to the scenario provided.
• Larry Daniel with Guardian Digital Forensics tweeted about Forensic Control's Free Computer Forensic Tools located here and maintained by @JonathanKrause.
• Autotuns and Dead Computer Forensics by @ChadTilbury on SANS Computer Forensics blog.
• Chad provides a great "how to" on utilizing SysInternals AutoRuns and a forensic image.
• Forensic Focus 2010 survey
• Take a few minutes to complete this survey. Jamie Morris with @ForensicFocus spends a lot of time ensuring that the Forensic Focus website is geared towards growing the community and a leading resource for practitioners, students, and educators alike.
• A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words by Lars Daniel of Guardian Digital Forensics.
• A great visual representation and resource for the computer forensic examiner to utilize when presenting digital evidence.
• Episode 30 of Forensic 4cast podcast- Amy Winehouse is no Forensic Guru
• Another great episode & panelists!
• Forensics from the sausage factory
• Safari Internet History Round Up
• USB Devices
• Rob Lee posted a great article some time ago "Computer Forensic Guide To Profiling USB Device Thumbdrives on Win7, Vista, and XP"
• Harlan recently discussed it again here with a link to the USB History Dump tool.
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•  Stroz Friedberg Promotes Seth Berman and Erin Nealy Cox