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Burn, drown, or smash your phone: Forensics can extract data anyway

Posted on July 8, 2020 (July 13, 2020) by Nicole Deneka

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. […]

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

Posted on June 30, 2020 (June 22, 2020) by Nicole Deneka

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) […]

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

Posted on June 22, 2020 (June 10, 2020) by Nicole Deneka

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. […]

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

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Nicole Deneka

… 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. […]

PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR: COMPANIES ARE HIRING US TO MAKE SURE EMPLOYEES ARE ‘WORKING’ FROM HOME’

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Nicole Deneka

A private investigator said his businesses is experiencing a boost in customers due to companies hiring his team to check up on employees who may be skipping out on work amid the coronavirus pandemic. […]

Enemy Unseen – How the Dark Web is Shaping Cybercrime

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Nicole Deneka

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. […]