Forensic 4cast Awards 2012 – Results

Today we held the fourth annual Forensic 4cast Awards in Austin, TX. Thank-you to everyone that took the time to place votes and nominations. We had nearly 4000 votes this year. That is a tribute to everyone that was nominated. I now get six months off before the madness starts again.

The winners of the 2012 Forensic 4cast Awards are as follows:

Computer Forensic Hardware Tool of the Year

• Tableau TD2

Digital Forensic Article of the Year

• Digital Forensics SIFT’ing: Cheating Timelines with log2timeline – David Nides

Phone Forensic Software Tool of the Year

• Cellebrite Physical Analyzer

Digital Forensic Podcast of the Year

• Cyberspeak

Digital Forensic Book of the Year

• Digital Forensics With Open Source Tools – Cory Altheide & Harlan Carvey

Computer Forensic Software Tool of the Year

• log2timeline

Digital Forensic Blog of the Year

• A Fistful of Dongles – Eric Huber

Phone Forensic Hardware Tool of the Year

• Cellebrite UFED

Digital Forensic Organization of the Year

• Consortium of Digital Forensic Specialists (CDFS)

Digital Forensic Examiner of the Year

• Cindy Murphy