Collaborate Disseminate
The fourth quarter of 2020 has seen some significant legal developments when it comes to digital evidence. In this issue (which also happens to be the anniversary of the inaugural Forensic Focus Legal Update), we highlight:
Search warrant reform &he… Continue reading Forensic Focus Legal Update December 2020: Refining Search & Seizure; New Laws & Guidance
In September, Forensic Focus was invited to sit in on a meeting of the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE). The third and final meeting of 2020 was held virtually — just as the previous meeting, in June, had … Read more Th… Continue reading Community In Collaboration: The Scientific Working Group On Digital Evidence
An investigation by Citizen Lab underlined a few security issues of teleconferencing application Zoom, on all platforms, and the company was quick to promise sweeping changes that would make Zoom more secure and transparent. Two major issues were broug… Continue reading Zoom Fixes Issues with Traffic Routed through Chinese Servers, Promises Better Encryption
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The post DEF CON 27, Packet Hacking Village – Gleb Esman’s… Continue reading DEF CON 27, Packet Hacking Village – Gleb Esman’s ‘Solving Crimes With Wireless GeoFencing’
Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who’s near a crime at a given time. Continue reading Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants
The danger in forcing companies with location-tracking apps to hand over the data to help solve crimes When you install a “Black Friday” app on your cellphone, you aren’t really expecting it to be used to identify you as a suspect or a witness to a cr… Continue reading Don’t (Geo)Fence Me In: Courts Order Google To Give Up Location Data
The sLoad downloader is an example of the stealthy, smart malware trend. Continue reading sLoad Banking Trojan Downloader Displays Sophisticated Recon and Targeting