DFI News Newsletter

	Jul 16, 2010


Subscribe \| Advertise \| Contact Us

FEATURE ARTICLE

Flasher Boxes: Back to Basics in Mobile Phone Forensics

By John Thackray

There is a growing demand to return to the flasher box/hex dumping solution in order to retrieve information from suspect devices not supported by the various mobile phone forensic manufacturers. Here are some considerations to effectively incorporate flasher boxes in your mobile phone investigation.

PRODUCT FOCUS

CHIP OFF Data Recovery Service under ISO 17025

Severely damaged handset?

Other extraction methods failed?

By demounting the flash memory chip from the circuit board, FTS can read it directly using highly specialised chip reading equipment. The resulting HEX code is then translated and analysed using validated examination methods under full ISO17025 accredited laboratory conditions.

www.ForensicTS.com

IN THE BLOGS

Why Timestomp Only Works in the Western Hemisphere

By Jesse Kornblum

Timestomp is an anti-forensics tool used to alter or erase the timestamps of files on NTFS filesystems. But there is a bug in Timestomp which prevents it from properly blanking timestamps on computers where the time zone is anything east of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Into The Breach: Expert Witness Testimony

By Lars Daniel

Last week I testified as an expert witness for the first time. While I was confident in my ability to testify to what I had done in the case, it was still a bit of a nerve wracking experience. Here are some tips I picked up from Larry Daniel and an expert panel at CEIC that helped my experience go smoothly.

Linux Programming Tools

By Craig Wright

Digital forensics practitioners, incident responders and *nix system administrators should be aware of programming tools that can aid attackers. It is simple for an attacker to load code when compilers or other tools are installed on a system.

IN THE NEWS

iPhones Facilitate Forensic Investigations

Law-enforcement experts say iPhone technology records a wealth of information that can be tapped more easily than BlackBerry and Android devices to help police learn where a suspect has been, what the suspect was doing there, and whether he or she has something to hide.

Zeus Developers Create Targeted Bank Trojan

Hackers have created a new version of the Zeus crimeware toolkit that's designed to swipe bank login details of Spanish, German, UK, and U.S. banks.

Backbone Security Announces StegAlyzer Tools for 64-Bit Platforms

Backbone Security announces the availability of 32-bit and 64-bit versions of their digital steganography detection tools for use on forensic workstations running 64-bit operating systems.

BlackBag Technologies Launches Mobilyze

BlackBag Technologies, Inc., provider of Mac-based computer forensic software and e-Discovery solutions, announces the release and general availability of Mobilyze, a new generation of forensic analysis software specifically designed to analyze iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad data.

New Forensic Tool Captures Vital Digital Evidence

The team of researchers at CCL-Forensics have developed and coded “EPILOG” which aids in the retrieval of deleted data in SQLite databases, for use in criminal investigations.