A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views:
A first look at Android 14 forensics
Android 14 was released to the public by the Open Handset Alliance on October 4, 2023, and is now available on various smartphones, including the Google Pixel…
Grooming, radicalization and cyber-attacks: INTERPOL warns of ‘Metacrime’
A comprehensive analysis of the Metaverse’s key challenges, threats and harms from a law enforcement perspective is outlined in a new INTERPOL White Paper published today…
Champlain College spearheads cybersecurity training in partnership with federal agencies
According to the 2022 Internet Crime Report, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received 800,944 cybercrime complaints with total monetary losses exceeding $10.3 billion…
How do you know you are “Ready to Respond”?
In this paper we are introducing the idea of a “Continuous Improvement (CI) Framework”, which enables an organization to self-assess the health of the underlying operational infrastructure that needs to be in place for an incident response team to be effective…
House panel investigating Capitol riot wants access to files deleted before GOP took control
A House subcommittee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot is trying to recover 117 encrypted files that the now-disbanded House Select Jan. 6 Committee deleted before Republicans took the majority last year…
Analysis of Android settings during a forensic investigation
During the forensic examination of a smartphone, we sometimes need to understand some basic settings of the device…
iOS Unified Logs – The use of the Dictaphone
I recently wrote an article about investigating iOS Unified Logs specific to WhatsApp … and following that, the question about the use of the dictaphone came up multiple times. And this question is very relevant…
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Met technology ‘way behind private sector,’ says Lib Dem candidate for Mayor
Shortcomings with Metropolitan Police information technology are seriously hampering the progress of, in particular, rape and sexual offence cases, according to research by Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate Rob Blackie and his team…
Countries tighten screws on biometric SIM registration amid rise in mobile phone fraud
Nations such as Kenya, Namibia, Pakistan and Russia have been enforcing measures at different levels related to biometric SIM registration…
Deep Dive into the Technical & Legal Complexities of Forensic Data Acquisition from Remote Cloud Storage
In the ever-expanding realm of digital forensics, the complexities associated with extracting evidence from remote cloud storage go beyond the surface, delving into intricate technical and legal landscapes…
Vehicle circled Brantford home 17 times before couple killed: Court
In a computer-generated video shown in court Thursday, a black car passed the home of homicide victims Larry Reynolds and Lynn Van Every time and time again…
Govt to set up ‘cloud server’ for storage and sharing of criminal data ahead of new codes rollout
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging top cops to bank more on ‘data’ over ‘danda'(stick) the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted a high powered panel under Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) to develop a separate indigenous ‘cloud server’ for storage of digital crime…
