NW3C to Deliver Microsoft’s COFEE in the US

The National White Collar Crime Center will be the first distributor of Microsoft’s Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor in the United States. The announcement was made at the Digital Crimes Consortium.
COFEE is an advanced tool in charge with capturing live computer evidence to help law enforcement agencies in the fight against digital crime.

The program developed by Microsoft is based on digital forensic technologies and provides investigators a new way to collect evidence at the crime scene, without requiring advanced knowledge in computing. It will be available for the agencies for free, following the agreement with INTERPOL. Agencies can get it either from the National White Collar Crime Center’s site, or from INTERPOL.
Officers can learn how to use COFEE in about ten minutes, according to Microsoft.

“Criminals are working in a new digital age, and it is essential that law enforcement agencies have the latest tools and technology to help them fight the cyberthreats facing the global community,” said Tim Cranton, associate general counsel of Worldwide Internet Safety Enforcement Programs at Microsoft. “Microsoft is proud to be working with NW3C and INTERPOL to make COFEE more broadly available to law enforcement agencies and to host the Digital Crimes Consortium bringing industry, government, academic and law enforcement cybercrime experts from around the world together to build a long-term coordinated effort in the fight against digital crime. By working together, we can be most effective in making the Internet safer for everyone.”

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