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Mobile Phone Forensic Challenges
Introduction A great number of the mobile phones used worldwide every second require special knowledge and skills from forensic experts. More often it is not enough to be an experienced expert in computer forensics to understand all the peculiarities and difficulties of the mobile forensics. This article describes technical problems encountered by specialists in mobile … Continue reading
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Can you tell us something about your background and why you decided to work in the field of applied trauma psychology? I have had a very mixed career; I have worked in medical research, as a retail operations director, property development, Head of a counselling service and running my own company. I think that the … Continue reading
Forensic Focus recently asked a number of digital forensics and eDiscovery recruitment specialists to comment on the current state of the employment market. Here are their thoughts, please leave your comments below. Jared Coseglia President, TRU Staffing Partners, US – http://www.trustaffingpartners.com “The current state of affairs for employment in eDiscovery, Litigation Support, and Forensics … Continue reading
Authentication of social media evidence can present significant challenges when you collect by screen shots, printouts or raw html feeds from an archive tool. This is just one reason why social media data must be properly collected, preserved, searched and produced in a manner consistent with best practices. When social media is collected with a … Continue reading
By John Patzakis1 Summary: Social media evidence is highly relevant to most legal disputes and broadly discoverable, but challenges lie in evidentiary authentication without best practices technology and processes. This whitepaper examines these challenges faced by eDiscovery practitioners and investigators and illustrates best practices for collection, preservation, search and production of social media data. Also … Continue reading
Introduction Over the last several years, I’ve posted a handful of short blog entries about the topic of compelling a criminal defendant to surrender a passphrase to an encrypted volume or hard-drive. These entries concern the three cases of re Grand Jury Subpoena Duces Tecum Dated March 25, 2011, United States v. Fricosu, (D.Colo, 2012), and In … Continue reading
Introduction In this post, I will provide some initial impressions and findings. I do not endeavor to write a white paper, or to employ an industry standard, scientific methodology to evaluating the tool (if for no other reason than because I am constrained by time). PostgreSQL First, I note that it appears that no one … Continue reading
Introduction In the forensic lab where I work, we frequently investigate malware-infected workstations. As our user population started shifting from Internet Explorer to Firefox, we observed that one of our favorite forensic tools, Kristinn Gudjonsson’s log2timeline, wasn’t able to provide as much data for Firefox as it was for IE. The missing component was cache … Continue reading
- Introduction – In my last article on iPhoneTracking, I tried to explain Apple’s crowd-sourced location based service. Obviously Android has to do something similar to provide a good user experience using location based services… Also back in April 2011 some people, who wrote stuff about iPhoneTracking, also mentioned Android with a sentence or two without … Continue reading
