BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A shoeprint etched in blood or dust can make a crucial difference in a criminal case, but it all depends on the ability of human examiners to identify a matching shoeprint pattern ...

Business First Television characters on popular shows such as "CSI" make it look easy to take a piece of a fingerprint or a partial shoe tread and use it to track down a suspect in a matter of hours.

A state-of-the-art computer forensic laboratory will debut in May in Erie County's new Public Safety Center, the FBI announced Friday. The computer lab, which will occupy 8,000 square feet of space on ...

Footprints that one may leave on a sandy beach can be easily swept away in the wind or washed away by the tide. In an instant, they vanish. But those who delete emails, files or software from work ...

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Computer Forensics. The television series CSI has given millions of viewers an appreciation of the role and importance of physical evidence in conducting criminal ...