Our storehouse for stories and lessons from past cases, conferences and research. Digital forensic analysis is an arms race - developers are constantly looking to improve the performance and user experience provided by their software, and can make whatever adjustments they want in the systems that make things happen. The stories below represent past victories and the lessons learned along the way, but we may not necessarily be able to replicate a past success if the techniques involved have been overtaken by advances in the industry. Give us a call, we’ll tell you about the current state of the art.
We are regularly brought in for situations when an executive hops from one company to another, and takes data with them on the way out the door. Sometimes we conduct the internal investigation which uncovers the data theft (politely called data exfiltration), other times we assist with the clean-up.
Here is a story which, I hope, will illustrate how messy these clean-ups can be.
Read MoreAt the start of a matter, you need search, you need filters, you need to cut out the irrelevant and the chaff. Document review platforms are terrific for that - you can't live without them if you have more than 1,000 documents in your case. But once you get down to the relevant documents, get them OUT of your review platform and into a thinking platform.
Read MoreKnowing "What" is important. It is a 'necessary but not sufficient' condition to take a page from our mathematician friends. It is finding out the "Why" that is reason for our investigations. And yet so many investigations stop short and simply present the "What".
Let me explain.
Read MoreWe've noticed a pattern.
When a case might settle why should you spend money preparing the evidence? Perhaps just inexpensive 'bluster' will win the day and with less spend on the case everyone is happy. The trouble is when opposing counsel calls your bluff or bluster fails…
Read More…we successfully broke into the encrypted storage container and recovered photo evidence of the spouse entering the home (contravening the retraining order) and retrieving the logs via USB stick.
The client loved us. The spying spouse, not so much.
Read MoreOne of our most frequent requests are social media captures - Facebook data, Instagram, WeChat, the list goes on and on.
Read MoreWe were recently asked to collect data from a home security system.
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