One truism about digital forensics is that every case is different. As the technology has evolved, we have had to come up with new and inventive ways to problem-solve and work around issues in both the mobile and computer forensic … Read more
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Can 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 pictographic representations of objects, moods, and words. They’re a convenient … Read more
Walkthrough: Carving With Belkasoft Evidence Center
by Yuri Gubanov, Danil Nikolaev & Igor Mikhailov © Belkasoft Research
Carving is an irreplaceable technique widely used in data recovery and digital forensics. By using carving, we essentially perform a low-level scan of media for various artifacts, looking for … Read more
The Necessity Of Developing A Standard For Exchanging A Chain Of Custody Of Digital Evidence Data
by Jasmin Cosic, Miroslav Baca & Peter Grd
Abstract
Today there is no criminal investigation that does not contain a digital dimension. A large number of criminal offenses, whether official investigations conducted by judicial bodies or corporate investigations, contain digital … Read more
689 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 the number of cases from 2010 and through … Read more