Month: September 2010

Hi Everyone,

This is just a short note to tell anyone who is a subscriber to DFM (or even if you just want to get in touch this way) that we have now introduced a very good support solution on our website to track customer support tickets. If you have a problem from now on and need technical support, or any other kind of support from the DFM team, please click on the Support menu item on the left hand side of the screen and follow the simple ticket submission process.

This new system will stop you having to send all your queries to the editorial@ address which often gets swamped by all sorts of interesting news and reviews. What we want to ensure is that we deliver impeccable service to our valued readers, so by using this ticketing system we should be able to get your inquiry right to the desk of the most relevant person in the shortest possible time.

As you might have seen by now, the DFM team is totally committed to giving you the best possible service we can offer and as such we always welcome (in fact we actively encourage) feedback on this or any other aspect of DFM. Please write to our 360 email address if you want to get your comments heard by the editorial team.

And finally, Issue 5 is really shaping up to be a fantastic issue with all sorts of really cool articles to get your forensic juices (eugh!) flowing. Also, as this is our birthday issue (yes, that’s right folks, we’re 1 in November), we have a really special set of prizes for our traditional DFM competition: we are giving away a veritable library of technical security and forensics books, along with licenses for forensics tools, a portable media player etc. So, all that remains for me to say is, until the next time,

Tony

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Mobile phones hold a phenomenal amount of important forensic information that can often be vital to an investigation. Until now, much of this evidence has been unobtainable to the forensic investigator.

CCL-Forensics, based in Warwickshire, have developed a new toolkit that will not only reveal a mobile phones hidden cache, and thus the browser history, but also analyses and interprets the information.

Andrew Krauze, MD of CCL-Forensics Ltd, spoke exclusively to Digital Forensics Magazine, stating that,

“It is vital that the digital forensics industry keeps pace with the phenomenal technical advancements in the mobile phone industry.  This technique is one of the many developments we are investing in, as the world of mobile phone forensics becomes much more demanding.  People are not just using phones to call and text – so we work with investigators to look beyond that.”

Krauze further emphasised the importance of his companies’ new tool by saying,

“As the industry heads towards a much more regulated environment, it is crucial that investigators have maximum confidence in their suppliers that they can extract more data from more devices in the shortest possible time.  This means costs are kept to a minimum and detection rates are as high as possible.”

While many similar tools already exist to extract these files, none of them make the information available to the investigator. CCL’s new Mobile Web Cache Toolkit (MWCT) allows their in-house investigators to extract vital information about the usage of the phone and enhances the basic information already obtained.

David Lattimore, Total Quality Manager of CCL explained how,

“Sometimes the evidence you need is right under your nose.  This technique takes data, which is likely to be extracted using forensic tools and presents it in an easily viewable form.  Without the technique, the investigators could be missing out on data, despite the fact that they’ve already extracted it from the device.”

The MWCT looks to revolutionise the analysis of Mobile Phones and has the potential to be extremely beneficial to digital investigations.

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