Digital Forensics Dispatch

Oct 21, 2021

Twitch Data Breach

Phil Muncaster of the Infosecurity Magazine recently published an article about the streaming platform Twitch and the data breach that

Oct 19, 2021

Mobile Forensics: A Brief Introduction

What is mobile forensics?   Mobile forensics is a branch of digital forensics that specifically deals with the acquisition, analysis,

Oct 14, 2021

UMass Undertakes Investigation into Racist Mass Email

A number of outlets recently reported that students at the University of Massachusetts had been receiving racist emails with some

Oct 12, 2021

Woman Accused of Faking Threatening Messages from Online Dating Match

According to Kevin Deutsch’s recent article on coralspringstalk.com, Coral Springs Florida resident Vanessa Restrepo has been criminally charged with sending

Oct 07, 2021

Digital Forensics: A Primer on Keyword Searching

A typical digital forensic investigation can consist of reviewing and searching through hundreds of thousands of files on a computer

Oct 05, 2021

Mobile and Cloud Data: Slack Data?

Recently, Allysia Edwards of CloudNine published an article titled Problems and Solutions for Slack Discovery. In the article, Edward discusses

Sep 30, 2021

Spears Phone Monitored Using Common iCloud Trick

According to a recent article by Nicholas Hautman on PageSix.com, when Britney Spear’s father and conservator, Jamie Spears, wanted to

Sep 21, 2021

Text Messages Released in Elizabeth Holmes Trial

Amy Larson of KRON4 recently reported that messages exchanged between Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani were added to the public

Sep 16, 2021

Cell Phone Location Data Leveraged in Murder Investigation

A recent article in the Lexington Clipper-Herald highlighted the detail of location and activity data that can potentially be gleaned

Sep 14, 2021

Dallas Police Seek FBI Assistance with Potential Criminal Evidence Destruction

Recently reporter Kevin Krause reported on an incident in The Dallas Morning News that has prompted the Dallas Police Department

Sep 09, 2021

Maryland Man Charged in January 6th Capitol Riot Facing Drug Conspiracy and Firearms Charges

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland has issued a press release charging 43 year-old Elias Nick Costianes,

Sep 08, 2021

Digital Evidence Being Investigated in Search for Missing ISU Student

India Afriyie of WEEK.com reports that an Illinois State University (ISU) student was reported as missing on August 25. ISU