Every year, the Department of Defense's Digital Forensics Laboratory (DC3) hosts an international digital forensics challenge, to encourage the development of new tools and techniques in digital forensics. The 2008 challenge consisted of individual problems, ranging from "novice" to "genius" level, including identification of suspicious software, image analysis, steganalysis, automated identification and translation of foreign language text, and password cracking. This year, the University of New Orleans team, consisting of Andrew Case (CS undergraduate student), Brian Roux (CS M.S. student), Lodovico Marziale (CS Ph.D. student) and Professor Golden G. Richard III took fourth place overall and second place among the participating academic teams, nationwide. The UNO team, using nickname NSSAL (named after the Networking, Systems Administration, and Security Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science) was the only team in Louisiana to place. The first place winner was an academic team from the Naval Postgraduate School in California. In total, the DC3 provided challenge materials to 199 teams from private industry, government, and academia. Of these 199, only 20 submitted solutions to what turned out to be a very difficult challenge. Full details on the forensics challenge and the results can be found on the web at http://dc3.mil/challenge/results.php.