Opsec Cyber Forensics Archives

Category Archives: Forensics

What Graykey Can and Can’t Unlock

November 26 2024 By Bruce Schneier in Forensics, iPhone, Security

This is from 404 Media:

The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world, is only able to retrieve partial data...
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Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records

July 17 2023 By Bruce Schneier in crime, Forensics, Security

Interesting forensics in connection with a serial killer arrest:

Investigators went through phone records collected from both midtown Manhattan and the Massapequa Park area of Long Island—two areas connected...
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Typing Incriminating Evidence in the Memo Field

June 28 2023 By Bruce Schneier in crime, Forensics, Security

Don’t do it:

Recently, the manager of the Harvard Med School morgue was accused of stealing and selling human body parts. Cedric Lodge and his wife Denise were among...
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Identifying the Idaho Killer

June 13 2023 By Bruce Schneier in Forensics, Security

The New York Times has a long article on the investigative techniques used to identify the person who stabbed and killed four University of Idaho students.

Pay attention to...

Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware

June 9 2023 By Bruce Schneier in Exploits, Forensics, iOS, iPhone, Malware, Security

Kaspersky is reporting a zero-click iOS exploit in the wild:

Mobile device backups contain a partial copy of the filesystem, including some of the user data and service databases....
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The Insecurity of Photo Cropping

February 21 2023 By Bruce Schneier in Forensics, Security

The Intercept has a long article on the insecurity of photo cropping:

One of the hazards lies in the fact that, for some of the programs, downstream crop reversals...
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Tracking Stolen Cryptocurrencies

September 27 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Forensics, Security

Good article about the current state of cryptocurrency forensics.

Surveillance of the Internet Backbone

August 25 2021 By Bruce Schneier in cybersecurity, Forensics, Privacy, Security, surveillance

Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used...

Risks of Evidentiary Software

June 29 2021 By Bruce Schneier in cybersecurity, Forensics, Security, vulnerabilities

Over at Lawfare, Susan Landau has an excellent essay on the risks posed by software used to collect evidence (a Breathalyzer is probably the most obvious example).

Bugs...