Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
T-Mobile’s Little Known NOPORT Setting can Protect Your Phone Number from SIM Swapping
T-Mobile has a feature that gives its customers more protection from hackers trying to steal their phone number, but you probably don't know it exists because the company doesn't advertise it publicly and won't even talk about it. It’s called “NOPORT” and, in theory, it makes it a bit harder [...]
Hackers Find Vulnerabilities in a US Military Fighter Jet
This weekend during DEFCON a team of highly vetted hackers tried to sabotage a vital system for a US military fighter jet. And they succeeded. It was the first time outsider researchers have been given physical access to the F-15 system to test for weaknesses. Two days later, the group [...]
Intermountain West RCFL Finds Child Porn Images on Computer of Man Accused of Killing Mackenzie Lueck
The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that 19 charges of sexual exploitation of a minor have been filed against Ayoola Ajayi, the man accused of killing University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck, whose body was found with blunt force trauma to the head and hands bound behind [...]
Hackers Can Break into an iPhone With a Single Text
When you think about how hackers could break into your smartphone, you probably imagine it would start with clicking a malicious link in a text, downloading a fraudulent app, or some other way you accidentally let them in. It turns out that's not necessarily so—not even on the iPhone, where simply receiving an iMessage [...]
100 Million People Reportedly Impacted By Capital One Data Breach
The alleged hacker behind one of the biggest ever cyberattacks on a bank then boasted about what she’d done on Twitter and Slack, according to the FBI. The news: The personal data of 100 million Americans and six million Canadians Capital One customers was stolen, the financial services firm revealed in [...]
Is AI the Future of Cybersecurity?
Cisco reported that in 2018 they blocked seven trillion threats on behalf of their customers. Capgemini Research Institute reported earlier this month that 61% of enterprises say they cannot detect breach attempts today without the use of AI technologies and that 73% of enterprises are testing use cases for AI [...]
7 Time Saving Strategies for Investigators
We wanted to share some useful tips from our friends at BlackBag: While the amounts of data in typical digital forensic cases today is a lot different than it was several years ago, the amount of time most investigators have to do their analysis has not changed. Below are 7 [...]
Pioneer Day
What is Pioneer Day? This day commemorates the entry of Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers into Utah’s Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. The Mormon pioneers viewed their arrival as the founding of a Mormon homeland, hence Pioneer Day. The Mormons, as they were commonly [...]
Wait, Is There Evidence on the SmartTV?
Those who have been in the field for more than a few years have seen the dramatic changes in mobile forensic extraction techniques from the old Series 30 Nokia’s to the latest smart devices today. Life has gone from impossible to easy, back to impossible, and swung over to a [...]
Your 35-Character Password is Weak
According to Frank Gifford this 35-character password, FI7CTQsBDvsMwbQNyY6qxV2FunWIUpXpcZm, is surprisingly weak. Java’s util.Random class uses a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) which creates a deterministic sequence of numbers. When one needs statistically random numbers, such as for Monte Carlo simulations, this is a great choice. It's fast - and if a model needs [...]