Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog

Amazon gave Ring videos to Law Enforcement without Warrants

Though the internet giant has a policy that police generally cannot view recordings without owners' consent, that safeguard can be overridden with court orders and emergency requests – and it was through several emergency requests that Amazon gave the cops people's video data, without permission and no indication of a [...]

Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation – Your help is needed

The full history of the Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Years before the 2010 discovery of one set of human remains at Oak Beach in Suffolk County, 10 people fell victim to suspected homicide. Multiple females, one male, and a toddler were robbed of their lives between 1996 and 2010. The [...]

Rusolut Visual NAND Reconstructor 6.2 Update and New Features & Improvements

The new updated and improved VNR 6.2 has arrived. Significantly revised Bad Column Remover New algorithm for “invisible” XOR’d bad column removal in Alcor Micro (AU) controllers Improved File Assembler’s internal algorithms All AI-XOR elements have been significantly improved and speed of key synthesis is greatly increased New Read Retry [...]

Deepfakes and Stolen PII Utilized to Apply for Remote Work Positions

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns of an increase in complaints reporting the use of deepfakes and stolen Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to apply for a variety of remote work and work-at-home positions. Deepfakes include a video, an image, or recording convincingly altered and manipulated to misrepresent someone [...]

Magnet AXIOM 6.3.0.32040 is now Available – Get a Free Trial License

AXIOM is the complete investigation platform with the ability to recover, analyze, and report on data from mobile, computer, and cloud sources. Features like Timeline analyze data across all evidentiary sources. Learn how you can get a Free Demo license. Over 60 new and updated Artifacts Parse selected artifacts and [...]

OSAC’s Human Forensic Biology Subcommittee Develops DNA Analysis Process Map

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science’s Human Forensic Biology Subcommittee, with contributions from the Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods (SWGDAM), has developed a Human Forensic DNA Analysis Process Map that captures details about the various procedures, methods and decision points most frequently encountered in human forensic [...]

Internet of Things / The non-secure network of things

Wikipedia defines IoT as physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software, and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks. With all of these objects or things more data is freely flowing across homes, coffee [...]

Understanding the digital forensic gold mine in IoT (Internet of Things)

Alexander S. Gillis wrote a great article about "What is the internet of things (IoT)?". It reads "The internet of things, or IoT, is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer [...]

UK Police Force Sees Pay off From Digital Forensic Investment in Tools and Team Members

Police in Nottinghamshire are leading the way in the prompt analysis of mobile phone data belonging to victims and suspects. This strong performance, the force says, is down to significant recent investment in specialist digital media and forensics officers, interns, graduate investigators, strict adherence to national proportionality guidelines, and the [...]

Cumbre de Ciberinvestigación 2022 / Cyber Forensic Investigative Summit

Esto sirve como una invitación oficial para que usted y los miembros de su equipo asistan a la Cumbre de Investigación Cibernética 2022 - Investigación Cibernética Internacional y Análisis Forense Digital. El evento será el martes 5 de abril en el Sheraton Mexico City Maria Isabel Hotel - Av. Paseo [...]