The company is now in the final testing stages before the release, which can be expected within the next 30 days at the latest.

v6.2 XRY promises to be a significant upgrade for all current users with major improvements in "Physical" extraction capabilities and a significant number of new devices supported.

If you want to be put on the mailing list for future announcements about releases, please use the Contact Me page to send us your details.

Micro Systemation understands that recommendations from other forensic practitioners have considerably more credibility than listening to the words of the marketing departments of the manufacturer.

So we thought we would take things one step further and seek the views of professionals to recommend XRY to others. Using the independent platform of LinkedIn to gather the results; we were delighted to discover that over ten different professionals who use XRY on a regular basis have all recommended it.

We truly believe you too can benefit from having a professional mobile forensic tool that focuses on:

• Ease of Use
• Analysis of Data
• Top Level Technical Support

Take a look at the recommendations posted on

LinkedIn here for more details >>

We would be absolutely delighted if you felt compelled to write your own recommendation as well.

The awards will be presented at the 2012 Forensic Summit in Austin on June 26 and 27.

Forensic 4 cast is a forensics blog written by Lee Whitfield and (to the best of our knowledge) is the only indepedent awards for the digital forensics sector, as voted for by users.

There are 10 categories to choose from including "Phone Forensic Software Tool of the Year" which XRY received in 2011 thanks to our customers.

Nominations will close on March 31 and voting will open the next day. So if you would like to nominate one of your digital forensic favorites in 2012 then please follow the link to make your nomination here >>

As our company continues to enjoy success in the mobile forensics sector, we need to invest more in research & development and customer support to maintain our strong position.

We currently have six new vacancies available in both Sweden & USA and more jobs are likely to be published during the year.

If you are interested in working for a Fast 500 Technology company involved in cutting edge technology to help detect crime, the please visit our Careers Page for more details.

We will be moving to new premises in Stockholm this year to provide increased accomodation, so use this link to see where you could be working in the future.

Stockholm, December 27th, 2011

NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ:NDAQ) announced that Micro Systemation AB
(MSAB B), today starts trading its shares on the main market of NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.

Micro Systemation was previously listed on NGM Equity and is the tenth company that has switched to NASDAQ OMX this year.

Joel Bollö, CEO at Micro Systemation commented

“Today’s listing and switch to NASDAQ OMX gives Micro Systemation yet another quality mark on our unique products and the company itself." 

"Our assessment is that a listing at one of Europe’s leading equities markets will provide our share with an improved liquidity in combination with a broader ownership base.”

For more information on this story and NASDAQ read the official press release here >>

It was never easy for judges to delineate the murky line that separates investigative necessity from personal privacy, but in an era of smartphones, computers and instant messaging, the exercise is fraught with uncertainty.

Close to 60 billion text messages were sent in Canada last year – a figure that hints at the stunning trove of intimate information contained in devices like cellphones. Increasingly, the courts are relying on experts to help them weigh the merits of allowing or excluding electronic evidence.

One of those experts – Daniel Embury, head of an RCMP forensic-science unit in Ottawa – works in a small, cluttered lab where he and the five technicians under his command are deluged by a blizzard of devices to be disassembled and analyzed.

Read More of this article at The Globe & Mail >>

In the past few days MSAB has been awarded the following three recognitions:

1. Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA

This programme is the region's most objective industry award programme, recognizing technology companies that have achieved the fastest rates of revenue growth in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) during the past five years.

2. Deloitte Sweden Technology Fast 50

Sweden Technology Fast 50 is an annual, independent ranking of the fastest growing technology companies. The ranking includes both public and private companies and covers all types of technology, the Internet, computers and other computer equipment to Biotech.

3. Di Gasell Company 2011

Dagens Industry identifies the fastest growing companies in Sweden for the Gazelle Award. Gazelle companies are masters at both profitable growth and creating new jobs, which have grown rapidly during the last three years.

On hearing the news Joel Bollö said 

"I am proud to be the CEO of Micro Systemation – this is the third year in row we have received such awards. Micro Systemation is unique to be in 0,07% of all companies in Sweden who achieve this status. It is a testament to all the hard work put in by our staff"

v6.1 has now been released and is available for download...

Millions of us happily invade our own privacy every day on Twitter and Facebook, sharing personal details with the world and broadcasting our location in a way previous generations would have found bizarre.

Even those who shy away from social media and new technology in general are not immune. The most basic mobile phones are in constant contact with the nearest mast, sending information about the whereabouts of their users to phone companies, who can later hand that data over to the police, if requested.

For more on this story please visit the BBC Website >>

According to the GSMA, mobile penetration in Asia Pacific will reach a landmark three billion connections in Q1 2012 – nearly two years earlier than projected.

By 2015, it is expected that the region will reach 4.1 billion connections, growing at twice the rate of Europe and North America, and will account for 40 per cent of mobile data traffic worldwide.

Tom Phillips, Chief Government and Regulatory Affairs Officer, GSMA commented: “Asia Pacific is one of the world’s fastest-growing mobile markets, through an impressive combination of investment and innovation. China alone currently has 940 million total mobile connections, exceeding the total number of connections in Europe and the US combined.”

For more information on this story visit the GSMA Website >>

Google has teamed up with the Mobile Marketing Association to put together this resource which allows users to create custom charts that will deepen their understanding of the mobile consumer. 

The interface allows users to specify the mobile usage of interest, the countries to be included, and then filter by specific demographic before being presented with a usable chart.

The data covers 30 countries, and was gathered during March and July 2011 from at least 2,000 people from each country.

For more information please visit the site here: ourmobileplanet.com >>

Mobile phones will become an increasing menace to network security that could drop malware onto protected devices when they dock to sync or plug into USB ports to charge, security experts say in a Georgia Tech report.

Compromised phones will infect computers they may plug into for otherwise legitimate reasons, much the same way malware such as Stuxnet found its way onto laptops via thumb drives, according to the "Emerging Cyber Threats Report 2012" released at the Georgia Tech Cyber Security Summit 2011 today. It was presented by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and Georgia Tech Research Institute.

The report warns that "mobile phones will be a new on-ramp to planting malware on more secure devices." The document cites an anonymous industry source saying that "... someone who just needs to charge his phone can introduce malware as soon as it's plugged into a computer within that location."

For more on this story visit NetworkWorld.com >>

The problem, said Sheldon, is that there are many more police seizing evidence and referring it for forensic investigation than there are people to do the analysis. 

This is exacerbated by the fact that there is a high proportion of unnecessary examinations because frontline officers do not have the skills or knowledge to be more selective. 

One way of improving the situation, he said, is to give frontline officers the tools and support they need to make better decisions about forensic evidence.

Breathalysers empowered police officers to make better decisions and eliminated the time-consuming and labour-intensive process of taking and testing blood samples. "Today, police officers can use breathalysers without understanding the science behind it," he said.

The time has come to empower frontline law enforcement officers to make better decisions when seizing digital evidence, says forensic analyst Andrew Sheldon.

For more on this story visit ComputerWeekly.com >>

With a burgeoning amount of digital information in the workplace, including e-mail, telephone and mobile phones, practitioners are finding they need external help to pick through the evidence available when confronted with allegations against a staff member.

As well as investigating alleged crimes, forensic experts are assisting in a wide variety of cases where employee behaviour may end in litigation, from dishonest absence to misuse of company equipment.

Organisations would do well to review both their IT policies, which govern how long data is stored and HR policies covering areas such as control of company mobile phones.

For more on this story please visit People Management >>

Investigators can apply to see the contents of text and instant messages, as well as their location.

For more information on this story please visit the BBC Website >>