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UPCOMING WEBINAR – Unlocking Digital Clues: Enhancing Investigations Through Social Media Intelligence

4th December 202328th November 2023

REGISTER NOW HERE As an investigator, you’re constantly searching for ways to close cases faster. One of the most effective ways to do so is by implementing social media data from multiple sources, but how? In this session, social media intercept

How to Identify Social Media Images and Analyze Them with Amped Authenticate

8th November 2022

A screenshot of pictures of purple flowering shrubs

By Marco Fontani, Forensics Director at Amped Software It is increasingly common nowadays that an investigation involves imagery from Social Media Platforms (SMPs), such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., or from messaging apps such as Messenger and WhatsApp. Indeed, the

PRNU Based Verification of Multi-Camera Smartphones

16th November 20212nd November 2021

Manoranjan Mohanty: Hi, thanks for watching this video. This is about our short paper titled ‘Verification of Multi-Camera Smartphones, which was done in collaboration with UTS and University of Auckland. So basically PRNU-based source camera attribution is a method which

Short Papers from DFRWS APAC 2021: Deepfakes, Protest, & Apple Health Data Forensics

16th October 202128th September 2021

The Forensic Aspects of Analysis of Deepfake Videos Based on AI Algorithms Zeno Geradts: Good morning. I would like to present Forensic Aspects of deepfakes. So this is a short presentation of five minutes and I will shortly go through

Santosh Khadsare, Cyber Forensics Expert, New Delhi, India

3rd March 20213rd March 2021

Mr Khadsare, you’ve worked in the cybersecurity and digital forensics field for about 20 years. How did you get into this line of work, and how have you seen the field in India evolve in that time? Well, I graduated

Why Offender Profiling is Changing Thanks to Mobile Forensics and Increasingly ‘Social’ Criminal Activity

12th May 202026th August 2014

by Yuval Ben-Moshe, senior director of forensic technologies at Cellebrite Mobile forensics has changed the methodology when it comes to offender profiling. The frequent use of mobile devices has provided investigators with another source for profiling criminal suspects, as well

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

Things a Little Birdie Told Me: The Implications of Twitter and other Social Media in E-Discovery

12th May 202021st July 2011

by Elluma Discovery Facebook, Twitter, and a growing number of social media sites have taken over our lives. Whether Tweeting about the Kardashians or ranting over the latest brouhaha between Snookie and “The Situation,” we spend an inordinate amount of