UK Government Seeks Expert Views On Computer Evidence
Can we still trust computer-generated evidence? The UK government launches a call for evidence to review its role in criminal cases—share your insights before 15 April 2025!
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Accelerating Evidence Analysis: An Investigator’s Take On The Advantages Of Media Acquisition From Detego Global
The rapid proliferation of digital devices in the modern world has profoundly impacted the digital investigation landscape. Studies show that digital evidence is crucial in around 90% of all criminal cases today*. Throughout my career as a Forensic Examiner, I’ve witnessed how
Managing Mountains Of Evidence
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
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
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
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
Authenticating Internet Web Pages as Evidence: a New Approach
By John Patzakis [1] and Brent Botta [2]
Previously, in Forensic Focus, we addressed the issue of evidentiary authentication of social media data (see previous entries here and here). General Internet site data available through standard web browsing, instead of
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
