Month: August 2012
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Listening Devices Might Not be the Only Threat to Confidential Business Matters
In one of my recent posts, I talked about how we did a Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) sweep for spy listening devices in the offices of a business. We didn’t find any eavesdropping devices in their offices, but we did determine that one of the other businesses in the building was being bugged. When we…
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Data is Data to Cell Phone and Computer Forensic Experts
“But I didn’t open anything bad!” That’s what one of our clients said when our computer forensic specialist was trying to explain that she did, indeed, have spyware on her cell phone. The thing is that a link is a link is a link. By that, I mean that the hardware – the cell phone…
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Who’s Listening? Cell Phone Spying is Here
It might sound like a funny prank to pull on a buddy, but installing cell phone spyware is not a joke – nor is it legal – anywhere in the United States. In fact, the Federal Wiretap Act as part of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Title All in Investigations) …
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Combining Hidden Asset Research and Computer Forensics Makes for Informed Divorce Decisions
I don’t usually keep track of celebrity lives, but I read the news about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes getting divorced. Apparently he had no idea – or at least that what the news reported. After dealing with many divorce situations as a private investigator, I can say that that is not all that uncommon,…
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Medical Issues are One Reason we Find Missing Relatives
Not all investigative work is tied to bad guys. In fact, here at , we get many calls from people asking us to find a family member. We find missing siblings and parents. In fact, we find missing relatives of all sorts. Some have been estranged for years and old hurts are fading. Other cases…
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It is What It Is in Cell Phone Forensics
Many times, especially in domestic cases, there are three sides to every story: his, hers and the truth. Cell phone forensics allows us to find that third side. Cell phones are just computers. And, as I have stated before, even data you think may have been deleted from a computer is still stored somewhere in…
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To Get Cell Phone Records as Evidence in a Court of Law Takes Expert Handling
When Joe calls us or comes into the International Investigator’s office saying that his girlfriend is cheating on him and gives us the cell phone he has on his account for her to use, we can help him find the truth. The truth for him usually doesn’t involve using cell phone records as evidence in…
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Cellphone Expert Analysis Comes Down to the Minute Details
We recently had a cell phone forensics case that illustrates exactly why cellphone forensic analysts are often considered cellphone experts. Cell phone forensics was being completed to determine whether or not malware or cellular spyware had been installed on a client’s phone. The user was suspicious because there were some people who knew things that…
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With Cellular Forensics, Timing Can Be Everything
Since we are one of only a handful of cell phone forensics labs in the nation, we are considered experts at cell phone forensics here at . Because of that, we get a lot of inquiries about the topic from attorneys, local and federal agencies and from regular citizens. People who suspect that their phone…
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In Cellular Forensics There is a Difference Between Physical and Logical Data
If you suspect that you or one of your clients is the subject of illegal cell phone tracking, you call to complete a full cellular forensics analysis on the phone. Did you realize that we have to look at two different types of data on the phone? We look at the physical data and the…