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. […]
Burn, drown, or smash your phone: Forensics can extract data anyway
Even if criminals try to destroy the evidence, NIST finds forensic experts can still extract data from a damaged phone. This is how they do it. […]
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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. […]
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. […]
Your Vehicle Black Box: A ‘Witness’ Against You In Court
Vehicle black box data is starting to be used more commonly in court against drivers, but drivers are demanding that police use warrants to access the arguably private data […]
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AI flags criminal evidence hidden in the cloud
Researchers have developed a way to search cloud storage sites like DropBox and Google Drive for digital evidence of illegal activities. […]
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Cellphone expert traces revenge murder suspects’ every step
On Wednesday, Vila Perdomo and Isaac looked on as an independent cellphone geolocation expert shared location information from the day of Salazar’s disappearance and murder from 2011. […]
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