Category: forensics

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Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records

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cell phones, crime, forensics, Security technology, Uncategorized

Interesting forensics in connection with a serial killer arrest: Investigators went through phone records collected from both midtown Manhattan and the Massapequa Park area of Long Island—two areas connected to a “burner phone” they had tied to the killings. (In court, prosecutors later said the burner phone was identified via an email account used to … Read More “Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records” »

Typing Incriminating Evidence in the Memo Field

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crime, forensics, Security technology, Uncategorized

Don’t do it: Recently, the manager of the Harvard Med School morgue was accused of stealing and selling human body parts. Cedric Lodge and his wife Denise were among a half-dozen people arrested for some pretty grotesque crimes. This part is also at least a little bit funny though: Over a three-year period, Taylor appeared … Read More “Typing Incriminating Evidence in the Memo Field” »

Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware

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exploits, forensics, ios, iphone, malware, Security technology, Uncategorized

Kaspersky is reporting a zero-click iOS exploit in the wild: Mobile device backups contain a partial copy of the filesystem, including some of the user data and service databases. The timestamps of the files, folders and the database records allow to roughly reconstruct the events happening to the device. The mvt-ios utility produces a sorted … Read More “Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware” »

The Insecurity of Photo Cropping

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forensics, metadata, photos, Security technology, Uncategorized, whistleblowers

The Intercept has a long article on the insecurity of photo cropping: One of the hazards lies in the fact that, for some of the programs, downstream crop reversals are possible for viewers or readers of the document, not just the file’s creators or editors. Official instruction manuals, help pages, and promotional materials may mention … Read More “The Insecurity of Photo Cropping” »

Surveillance of the Internet Backbone

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cybersecurity, forensics, internet, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, tracking, traffic analysis, Uncategorized

Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used for things like tracing VPN activity. At a high level, netflow data creates a picture of traffic flow and volume across a network. It can show which … Read More “Surveillance of the Internet Backbone” »

Risks of Evidentiary Software

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courts, cybersecurity, false positives, forensics, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities

Over at Lawfare, Susan Landau has an excellent essay on the risks posed by software used to collect evidence (a Breathalyzer is probably the most obvious example). Bugs and vulnerabilities can lead to inaccurate evidence, but the proprietary nature of software makes it hard for defendants to examine it. The software engineers proposed a three-part … Read More “Risks of Evidentiary Software” »

Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption

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bitcoin, childpornography, cryptocurrency, cryptography, darkweb, forensics, Security technology

The US Department of Justice unraveled a dark web child-porn website, leading to the arrest of 337 people in at least 18 countries. This was all accomplished not through any backdoors in communications systems, but by analyzing the bitcoin transactions and following the money: Welcome to Video made money by charging fees in bitcoin, and … Read More “Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption” »

FBI Takes Down a Massive Advertising Fraud Ring

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adware, fbi, forensics, fraud, Security technology

The FBI announced that it dismantled a large Internet advertising fraud network, and arrested eight people: A 13-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Aleksandr Zhukov, Boris Timokhin, Mikhail Andreev, Denis Avdeev, Dmitry Novikov, Sergey Ovsyannikov, Aleksandr Isaev and Yevgeniy Timchenko with criminal violations for their involvement in perpetrating widespread digital … Read More “FBI Takes Down a Massive Advertising Fraud Ring” »