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…
Texting-while-driving (TWD) is a problem, but it’s more than just texting – the problem encompasses distractions of all sorts related to mobile devices and more. One might go so far as to say it is the traffic safety problem of the…
In the past few weeks, we’ve received a higher than average number of requests for digital forensic services on very short notice. To some digital forensic practitioners, particularly in the public sector, this may seem almost unheard of, but when I…
In life, we rarely ever get solid answers. The same is true in many forensic disciplines. Indeed, even when some answers are put forth as solid, after years of scrutiny, challenges and vetting, the answer can be reversed (see: FBI hair comparison “forensics”). One…
