Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
How the FBI Tracked Michael Cohen’s Phones
Search warrant documents made public Tuesday show the FBI used highly secretive and controversial cellphone sweeping technology to zero-in on President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer when agents raided his New York City home, hotel room and office last year. Agents using a Triggerfish cell-site simulator tracked the whereabouts of [...]
The ‘Internet of Bodies’ is Setting Dangerous Precedents
In a column for The Washington Post, Mary Lee, a mathematician for the RAND Corporation, warns that "the line between human and machine is blurring — and creating new concerns about consumer safety and privacy rights." There are electronic pills equipped with Wi-Fi transmitters, smart contact lenses with wireless circuits, cochlear implants [...]
Researchers Crack Open Notorious Fancy Bear Rootkit
UEFI malware has been in the wild for more than two years The Fancy Bear hacking group's Lojax rootkit is far from a one-off tool, and may have been active in the wild for years before it was first reported. This is according to an analysis from Netscout's ASERT team, which took [...]
Over a Year Later and WannaCry Still Poses a Real Threat
While largely contain eighteen months after the initial outbreak of the WannaCry Ransomware infection, the malware continues to rear its head on thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of infected computers. When the WannaCry infection was first unleashed, security researcher Marcus Hutchins of Kryptos Logic registered a domain that acted as a kill switch for the [...]
Elcomsoft Extracts Apple Health Data from iCloud
Moscow - ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 9.0, the update to the company's forensic extraction tool for macOS and Windows. Version 9.0 gains the ability to remotely access Apple Health data stored in Apple iCloud, becoming the first forensic tool on the [...]
Verizon is launching RCS Chat on the Pixel 3 on December 6th
Verizon has confirmed to The Verge that it will be launching RCS Chat on the Pixel 3 and 3 XL on December 6th. Only those two phones on Verizon will have the feature, but the company tells me that it is “committed to bringing advanced messaging to other Verizon smartphones in the [...]
Are the Chinese Government Spying on Tesla and Other EV Drivers?
According to a new report from the AP, which reveals that the Chinese government requires all electric vehicle manufacturers in the country–not just Tesla, but BMW, Ford, Volkswagen, GM, a total of 200–to report a shocking amount of data on vehicles to the government. Specifically, they must report 61 data points, [...]
Hackers Can Exploit This Bug to Tamper with Surveillance Camera Footage
There is a vulnerability in Nuuo surveillance cameras which hackers can use to hijack the devices to tamper with footage and live feeds. The Cybersecurity firm Digital Defense said that its Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) had uncovered a zero-day vulnerability in Nuuo NVRmini 2 Network Video Recorder firmware, software used by hundreds [...]
Urban Massage Exposed a Huge Customer Database
A popular massage-booking app has exposed 309,000 customer profiles, including comments from their masseurs or masseuses on how creepy their customers are. The app’s wide-open, no-password-required database was discovered by researcher Oliver Hough, who tipped off TechCrunch. Hough said in a tweet on Tuesday that the breach was caused by unimplemented security [...]