Internet Evidence Finder (IEF), the industry-leading forensic software from Magnet Forensics that recovers existing and deleted data from 220+ Internet-related artifacts has been reviewed by Jonathan Krause of Forensic Control.

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In recent years it has been noticeable that the amount of people carrying a smart phone has increased exponentially. This is down to their low price and availability; even children as young as 12 have a smart phone. However, most people who own a smart phone are not aware of the data hidden in even the simplest and most innocent things they do on their phones. This includes armed forces staff. This article will look at the issues and possible repercussions of the availability of such easily obtained data.

Let's consider a scenario: in this case an armed forces staff member is on patrol. they take a picture of themselves and upload it to a social media. Their personal profile on this site is not secured or has limited access that allows anyone to view their photos. A militant group happens to be doing some research on their “enemy”. They use advanced search on Google then happen use the correct collection of words or phrases, and just happens to find this picture. What could possibly happen?

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The UK's Royal Military Police (RMP) Service Police Crime Bureau (SPCB) has cut its case backlog by 42% and reduced costs per initial case by nearly one-third to £3,200 using distributed processing technology.

The RMP is the Army’s technical investigative organisation and has 15 high tech crime personnel within its Cyber Crime Centre.The body assists with digital investigations by the civilian police because of its advanced digital forensics technology, and handles between 100 to 150 cases a year. Each case uses up to 3Tb of data, with a single arrest involving the seizure and investigation of smartphones, laptops, USB drives, TVs, tablets and gaming devices, with gigabytes of data stored on each...

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There are many classifications as far as forensic data collection is concerned, but much of it is still a de facto and Wild West when it comes to naming convention. This is especially true in the embedded system area.

When I refer to embedded systems, I think of specialized devices, sometimes in a larger system or machine. Embedded systems usually have at least one microprocessor with dedicated program, and limited options to extract the information in a sound forensic way. Cell phones, smart phones, tablets, DVD and BluRay players, advanced digital watches, TVs, cars, elevators, and even washers & dryers can have embedded systems. I would like to suggest a more structured way to represent data collection methods for such systems. As this is a work in progress, I look forward to constructive criticisms that can benefit the forensics community...

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[Republished from the Magnet Forensics blog by Lance Mueller, Director of Forensics - Magnet Forensics (formerly JADsoftware).]

Well, it’s day two for me at Magnet Forensics, and I thought I would take the opportunity to say “hello” to everyone and briefly comment on why I chose to work here, and why INTERNET EVIDENCE FINDER (IEF) has been a “go to tool” in my toolkit for a while now.

Magnet Forensics is a very unique “family” business. Nobody is technically related, but everyone treats each other like family, and it is one of the most positive goal-oriented teams I have ever worked with. Everyone in the company has a genuine interest in producing tools that are not only very useful and functional, but also serve the greater good of helping the good guys beat the bad guys (Jad has taught them well).

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