blockchain, cryptocurrency, forensics, Security technology, theft, tracking, Uncategorized
Good article about the current state of cryptocurrency forensics. Powered by WPeMatico
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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” »
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” »
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” »
dna, forensics, Security technology
Good article on using long-range familial searching — basically, DNA matching of distant relatives — as a police forensics tool. Powered by WPeMatico
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” »
backdoors, fbi, forensics, lawenforcement, police, reports, Security technology
According to a new CSIS report, “going dark” is not the most pressing problem facing law enforcement in the age of digital data: Over the past year, we conducted a series of interviews with federal, state, and local law enforcement officials, attorneys, service providers, and civil society groups. We also commissioned a survey of law … Read More “New Report on Police Digital Forensics Techniques” »
courts, crime, fbi, forensics, operationalsecurity, privacy, Security technology, surveillance
If you’re going to commit an illegal act, it’s best not to discuss it in e-mail. It’s also best to Google tech instructions rather than asking someone else to do it: One new detail from the indictment, however, points to just how unsophisticated Manafort seems to have been. Here’s the relevant passage from the indictment. … Read More “E-Mail Leaves an Evidence Trail” »
bombs, cellphones, cracking, crime, datadestruction, fbi, forensics, police, Security technology, whatsapp
Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese journalist whose anti-corruption investigations exposed powerful people. She was murdered in October by a car bomb. Galizia used WhatsApp to communicate securely with her sources. Now that she is dead, the Maltese police want to break into her phone or the app, and find out who those sources were. … Read More “Daphne Caruana Galizia’s Murder and the Security of WhatsApp” »
artificialintelligence, fakenews, forensics, forgery, Security technology
This article argues that AI technologies will make image, audio, and video forgeries much easier in the future. Combined, the trajectory of cheap, high-quality media forgeries is worrying. At the current pace of progress, it may be as little as two or three years before realistic audio forgeries are good enough to fool the untrained … Read More “The Future of Forgeries” »