It’s becoming common knowledge that location evidence on cellular devices can provide a wealth of evidence in any number of civil, criminal and investigative matters. Law enforcement agencies use cellular location evidence from service providers to help place a criminal…
Personal Injury & Insurance Fraud Investigation: Get the Mobile Device! As a registered Private Investigator in Virginia, I routinely see job postings and other opportunities for “surveillance investigators” to work insurance fraud cases. This role involves a licensed private investigator…
Case Study: Call Detail Records Analysis in Civil Domestic Litigation The conventional wisdom with regard to cellular call detail record analysis is that it is a tool primarily used by law enforcement to help prove or disprove the location of…
I just returned from a fantastic few days at the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association 2017 annual conference. I spent 3 days meeting with litigators from all over Virginia about the various ways data can help in their cases. Part of…
Every company at every level has had to perform the unenviable task of forcefully off-boarding an associate or employee. Usually, this is initiated by management and executed by Human Resources. Somewhere in this process, the associate is informed of the decision, sometimes…
It’s not secret to those involved in the study and practice of mobile forensics that Apple likes to throw us curve balls with almost every new iteration of the iOS operating system. It turns out, iOS 10.2 is no different (released…
Happy New Year! 2017 has already started off with a proverbial “bang” in our home state of Virginia with a story in the political world which directly relates to the field of digital forensics and electronic investigation. Two Republican candidates for Lieutenant…
Very often, examiners get called upon to do what may be referred to as “push-button forensics”. Meaning that we acquire data, plug it into a tool, and wait for the processing and output from that tool to tell us what we…
For those of you who are involved in (and can tell people about) active digital forensic casework, you probably get the same response when you tell others about your job – “Wow! That sounds really cool!”. Yes, it sounds cool and can…
f it seems like the frequency of high-profile and attention-grabbing cases involving Electronically Stored Information (ESI) and digital evidence in the media are on the increase, you’re 100% correct! ESI is ubiquitous – on our computers, on our phones, on our…
