Category: Computer & Mobile Forensics

Six former eBay executives and employees are facing federal charges after they allegedly led a cyberstalking campaign

Six former eBay executives and employees are facing federal charges after they allegedly led a cyberstalking campaign against a Natick couple they believed was critical of the company in an online ecommerce newsletter. […]

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CAP’s cell phone forensics team reaches 1,000th ‘find’ milestone

Civil Air Patrol’s award-winning National Cell Phone Forensics Team achieved another major milestone with recording its 1,000th find of a lost or missing person on the way to its 656th life saved since the innovative technology was developed. ( Courtesy Graphic) […]

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Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters’ phones against them (The searches, sometimes known as reverse location requests, increased fivefold from 2018 to 2019.)

Rather than seeking warrants for a person backed up with probable cause, police have begun relying on geofence warrants that sweep up information on any device that happened to be in the vicinity of a crime. […]

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Warning Message on Looted iPhones Lets Punks Know Devices Are Tracked and Cops Are Involved

… stolen devices can be locked and tracked. So, given that I’m assuming Apple has some reasonable control over its inventory, one can assume other phones stolen from these stores aren’t going to be usable for that long. […]

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Enemy Unseen – How the Dark Web is Shaping Cybercrime

While public safety measures have started to relax, the surge of malware accompanying the pandemic is still making headlines. As a recent study points out, hackers have created no less than 130 000 new e-mail domains related to Covid-19 to carry out what analysts now call ”fearware” attacks. […]

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Phone evidence helped lead to rape charges against ex-U of I cop; incidents go back to 2012

Evidence found on the cellphone of a former University of Illinois police officer charged in December with official misconduct led to additional charges of sexual assault, sexual abuse and intimidation involving four separate victims. […]

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