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I was very disappointed to hear that my friend, who had his Android phone seized not too long ago, has had his phone broken by police forensics.
As far as I know, it was a few years old, Samsung, and had a 20-digit password.
It seems that … Continue reading What can forensic analysts extract from a fully encrypted phone? [closed]
I’m currently studying forensics, and one thing that keeps coming up is the authorities breaking into phones.
There are several third party tools they can use, but one of the most popular is ‘Cellebrite’.
My understanding of this device wa… Continue reading Can Cellebrite be used to access any phone by the government? What is the point of encryption if they can get into any phone?
Although most of our clothes fold and crease with our bodies as we move, our shoes maintain the same shape and appearance pretty much all the time. With that fact in mind, scientists are now developing a method of catching criminals via shoe ID.Continu… Continue reading New forensic tech may nab criminals by the look of their shoes
Despite overall improved mortality rates, the number of people found at home so decomposed that it is impossible to determine their cause of death is on the rise in parts of the UK. A new study led by University of Oxford researchers tries to parse the… Continue reading Decomposed bodies found at home are on the rise in England and Wales
Suppose you have a stalker and this person has access to professional advice.
Suppose your Android phone was hacked by means of physical access, i.e. known unlock pattern or stolen password note, with malicious software either commercial o… Continue reading Detecting hard to detect stalkerware – a theoretical question
Lending new meaning to the phrase ‘cat burglar’, a single feline hair left at a crime scene can be traced back to an individual animal through a new method that can highlight a unique, rare genetic ‘fingerprint’.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: U… Continue reading New DNA tech uses a single cat hair to hone in on crime suspects
I have a personal id "U1KFhYtMqZhCYya6sy31PVLM8DlM5HLCkwy3", I have checked some hash functions but cannot make sure how this generated? Is this just random string generated with [a-zA-z0-9]?
Continue reading Any idea on how this 36 character long string generated? [duplicate]
One part of incident response is acquiring memory from the affected device. How can this be done on a Mac running on an Apple silicon chip (M1/M2)?
I’ve found some dated articles about it, but they all seem to talk about the Intel era, and… Continue reading How to acquire memory from a Macbook running on Apple silicon chip? [closed]
I’m working on a case involving an Apple silicon Mac and it has me stumped. It has a user password, which I don’t know, is running the latest OS and has Filevault enabled.
Without the user password, my forensic tools can’t do anything as t… Continue reading Is guessing the password forensically sound?
Is it possible to detect/trace if a Windows Live/PE is used on a system?
Like with logs or dumps etc.
Continue reading How to detect/trace if a Windows Live/PE used on a system?