Forensic Focus Legal Update December 2019 – Part II: Search And Seizure
by Christa Miller In cooperation with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, Forensic Focus offers a quarterly roundup...
View ArticleForensic Focus Legal Update December 2019 – Part I
by Christa Miller In cooperation with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, Forensic Focus is proud to offer a...
View ArticleCan Your Investigation Interpret Emoji?
by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Emoji are everywhere — including in your evidence. Used across private-messaging apps and email, social media, and even in passwords and account names, emoji are...
View ArticleFrom Crime To Court: Review Principles For UK Disclosure
by Hans Henseler UK Law Enforcement agencies are facing significant challenges related to digital evidence disclosure in criminal prosecution cases. Suspects who are charged with a crime must have...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement Professionals Need to Evaluate Digital Forensics Practices...
by L.E. “Ted” Wilson There is a fascinating constitutional showdown brewing in the U.S. that will have significant implications for how our law enforcement agencies are able to conduct digital...
View ArticleWho Is Spying On Android Users, Why Do They Do It And What Are They Doing...
If you’ve been following the news, you may already know about the many cases where companies, big and small, were caught spying on their users. It might appear that just about everyone making a phone...
View ArticleMy cat did it – honest, Guv!
and he did it via remote access… by Sam Raincock, IT and telecommunications expert witness When evaluating computer forensics cases the tricky part is often not just evaluating what is found but...
View ArticleInvestigating and Prosecuting Cyber Crime: Forensic Dependencies and Barriers...
Abstract The primary goal of this paper is to raise awareness regarding legal loopholes and enabling technologies, which facilitate acts of cyber crime. In perusing these avenues of inquiry, the author...
View ArticleData Recovery As A Medium For Email Forensics
Data Recovery is the technique adopted for salvaging data from an inaccessible state which could have arrived due to deletion, corruption, or failure of the storage medium. On an Operating System, the...
View ArticleDFRWS Europe 2014 Annual Conference – Recap
This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) held in Amsterdam from the 7th – 9th of May; over the next few weeks we will also be bringing...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy Android 4.3 Jelly Bean acquisition using Joint Test Action...
There have been some issues during data acquisitions with Samsung Galaxy having the Android 4.3, Jelly Bean as the operating system even if using the recommended steps for Logical File Dump, File...
View ArticleWindows 8: Important Considerations for Computer Forensics and Electronic...
Introduction Documents identified by computer forensic investigations in civil litigation typically require review and analysis by attorneys to determine if the uncovered evidence could support causes...
View ArticleUnacceptable Acceptable Use Policy
Official Secrets Act warning sign on quayside at Crouch Corner, Foulness, Essex (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I had an opportunity this week to be on the receiving end of an acceptable use policy (AUP) –...
View ArticleAuthenticating Internet Web Pages as Evidence: a New Approach
By John Patzakis [1] and Brent Botta [2] Previously, in Forensic Focus, we addressed the issue of evidentiary authentication of social media data (see previous entries here and here). General Internet...
View ArticleKey Twitter and Facebook Metadata Fields Forensic Investigators Need to be...
Authentication of social media evidence can present significant challenges when you collect by screen shots, printouts or raw html feeds from an archive tool. This is just one reason why social media...
View Article689 Published Cases Involving Social Media Evidence (with full case listing)
The torrent of social media evidence continues to grow. In November 2011 we, at X1 Discovery, searched online legal databases of state and federal court decisions across the United States to identify...
View ArticleOvercoming Potential Legal Challenges to the Authentication of Social Media...
By John Patzakis1 Summary: Social media evidence is highly relevant to most legal disputes and broadly discoverable, but challenges lie in evidentiary authentication without best practices technology...
View ArticleEleventh Circuit Rules Defendant Cannot Be Compelled to Divulge Encryption...
Barely three weeks after I penned Another Judge Rules Encryption Passphrase not Testimonial Under Fifth Amendment Analysis, the Eleventh Circuit has held that a defendant’s “decryption and production...
View ArticleAnother Judge Rules Encryption Passphrase not Testimonial Under Fifth...
I previously discussed, on a bar association section blog in 2007 (here) and 2009 (here), the case of In re Boucher, where a U.S. judge for the District of Vermont ruled that requiring a criminal...
View ArticleCan Your Digital Images Withstand A Court Challenge?
The term “digital” in law enforcement is almost immediately associated with digital forensics, i.e.; computer crimes, cyber terrorism, child porn on computer hard drives, and other areas that require...
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