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Accelerating Evidence Analysis: An Investigator’s Take On The Advantages Of Media Acquisition From Detego Global

16th May 202416th May 2024

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

20th October 2020

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?

12th May 202020th November 2019

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

12th May 20203rd May 2019

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

22nd February 202325th January 2018

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

22nd February 202313th July 2012

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)

22nd February 202316th April 2012

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