Security Bites Podcast: Why online criminals get away

This week Robert Vamosi interviews Dave Merkel, Mandiant's vice president of products, about how investigators go about finding or (as we'll soon hear) not finding the people responsible for cybercrime. Merkel is a former agent with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Unlike traditional forensics, which has established protocols in collecting and analyzing physical samples from the real world, digital forensics is a relatively new field, where methods of collecting and handling data are changing rapidly as both technology and the criminals evolve. Digital forensics combines the experience of traditional law enforcement agent...