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Welcome to the home page of Digital Dirt, the educational component of ComputerForensicsDigest.com. Below are links to a growing number of informational resources for attorneys, computer forensics professionals, law enforcement, and the general public.

Digital Dirt Continuing Legal Education Seminars

The Digital Dirt CLE is a six-hour continuing legal education seminar on trends and legal developments relating to computer forensics. The intended audience is attorneys, law enforcement, and computer forensic examiners, but it is also open to members of the general public.

The Digital Dirt CLE covers the following topics:

1. Introduction to Computer Concepts and Forensic Terminology
2. Trends in Data Creation, Transmission, and Storage
3. Developments in Forensic Hardware and Software
4. Forensic Search and Seizure: Overview of Procedure and Law
5. Recent Federal and State Computer Forensic Cases (Jurisdiction-Specific)
6. The Ethics of Electronic Data (1 hour Ethics credit)

For a detailed outline and course description, click here.

The next Digital Dirt CLE will be held on July 23, 2009 at the Westin Washington DC City Center, 1400 M Street NW, Washington, DC, from 9:00am to 4:30pm.

Digital Dirt Blawg

The Digital Dirt Blawg provides brief updates of computer forensic developments, including court decisions, significant investigations, technical news, conferences, and so on. An RSS feed is available.

Digital Dirt Newsletter

If you prefer to have computer forensics news and legal developments delivered directly to your inbox, sign up for the Digital Dirt Newsletter. Issues are electronically delivered twice a month, around the 1st and 15th.

Each issue contains a list of recent computer forensic cases, a sampling of computer forensics headlines, and updates on computer forensic events and seminars.