Evidence - Spooks BBC1 - Did you watch?

Evidence - Spooks BBC1 - Did you watch?.Did any of you watch Spooks tonight (BBC1, 9pm)? .The Muslim character said that his fanatic friends...

UK MTEB Mobile Forensics Conference 2010

UK MTEB Mobile Forensics. Conference - September 2010.Conference Centre - TBA .Practitioners - Exhibition - Business..Britain is a World lea...

First case using wireless communications - history

First case using wireless communications - history. Photo courtesy of executedtoday.com.At the first UK MTEB Mobile Forensics Conference 200...

TimeTable - UK MTEB Mobile Forensics Conference 2009

Conference Timetable.25/11/09.REGISTRATION: 8.45am.Conference Opens: 9.15am.Speaker 1: 9.30am - 10.00am Greg Smith TrewMTELooking at the way...

Chipping, flashing, jailbreaking

Chipping, flashing, jailbreaking.Past discussion here and at Forensic Focus have highlighted that when examining mobile phones avoid causing...

Unlawful - Iphone Jailbreaking

Unlawful - Iphone Jailbreaking.The information below was reproduced from Sean Morrissey's website. It clearly has a significant impact h...

Eavesdropping on Bluetooth Headsets

Eavesdropping on Bluetooth Headsets.Make sure to change the Bluetooth pin setting from its default setting of 0000 to one you choose..

Googling Jurors

Googling Jurors.There is an interesting article by Ralph Losey online which is worth reading:.Jurors Rebel, Defy Judges, and Google Their Ow...

Solid State Drives will Ruin Forensics

Solid State Drives will Ruin Forensics Part 5/5 presentation on YouTube from the series about Solid State Drives (SDD) -v- Hard Disc Drives ...

Iphone jailbreak hack

Iphone jailbreak hack.Just in case some are unaware..http://blog.intego.com/2009/11/11/intego-security-memo-hacker-tool-copies-personal-info...

Mobile Phones, Security, Economy and Employment

Mobile Phones, Security, Economy and Employment.An article in the Telegraph on the 6th November 2009 caught my eye, titled "Inventor of...

Poppy and Hero

Poppy and Heroes.Under one Flag .http://www.poppy.org.uk/ . http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

3G Dongle CSA sample measurements

3G Dongle CSA sample measurements.Since the UK MTEB Mobile Forensics Conference 2009 is being held in Dorking, a short drive from Box Hill P...

Obama mobile phone aid programme

Obama mobile phone aid programme..Nicknamed "Obama phones" (after the President of the United States) it would appear that a US in...

Forensic Science Regulator Report

Forensic Science Regulator Report.Did you read this document from the Forensic Science Regulator dated July 2009?.Online Google Document:htt...

ICCI 2010

International Conference for Communications Interception 2010

100,000 reach trewmte blogspot

100,000 reach trewmte blogspot.Three years after trewmte.blogspot was launched and today it has reached over 100,000 visitors. For a small, ...

Booking Form Mobile Forensics Conference UK

25-26 Nov 2009 UK MTEB Mobile Forensics Conference UK.The Booking Forms are now available. A massive email mailshot was sent out yesterday i...

Extra-Statutory

Extra-Statutory.Where, for illustrative purposes only, a Home Office circular regulates e.g. the use of listening devices and aural and visu...

SMS Text Messages - Hearsay Evidence

SMS Text Messages - Hearsay Evidence.C2247 / R v Leonard 2009 YEAR OF CASE: 2009CITATION: [2009] EWCA Crim 1251COURT: Court of Appeal.SUMMAR...

Mobile Market Stats

Mobile Market StatsUseful OFCOM mobile market statistics collated from the UK mobile network operators.

BCCH data uncovered

BCCH data uncovered.The data found in the elementary file broadcast control channel (EFBCCH) 7F20:6F74 / 7F21:6F74 can provide useful data r...

Mobile Phone Identity Theft

Mobile Phone Identity Theft.With a title like that you could be forgiven if you thought that someone had taken your mobile phone, stolen the...

Subsidiarity Isn't working

Subsidiarity Isn't working.Sometimes, something can be said, a word or phrase, that sticks in my mind and eventually I have to go and re...

Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors

Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors, Says New Report By International EMF Collaborative.Photo courtesy of Radiation Research .Report available: ht...

Forensic Focus Interviews

Forensic Focus Interviews.Forensic Focus regularly interviews well known personalities from the world of computer and mobile phone forensics...

Cell Site Analysis (CSA) Images Part 2

Cell Site Analysis (CSA) Images Part 2.It may interest those reading the discussions that I post that Cell Site Analysis (CSA) results from ...

Cellphone starts Gas Stove

Cellphone starts Gas StoveThe New York Times has just published a great news story 21st August 2009 titled 'Hello, Oven? It’s Phone. Now...

Cell Site Analysis (CSA) Images

Cell Site Analysis (CSA) Images.Cell Site Analysis (CSA) has had a good deal of airing recently here on the forum, so I thought you might li...

Is section 133 Criminal Justice Act 2003 flawed?

Is section 133 Criminal Justice Act 2003 flawed?.The great cases of the 60s, 70s , 80s and 90s saw in the introduction of good quality case ...

Mobile Telephone Case Law

Mobile Telephone Case Law.As you know for Judges, Lawyers, Practitioners, Experts, Law Enforcement and Students the webblog was set up for e...

Happy Birthday Hans Christian Ørsted (Oersted)

Happy Birthday Hans Christian Ørsted (Oersted).Hans Christian Ørsted, one of the leading scientists of the nineteenth century, played a cruc...

Non-Law Enforcement Mobile Forensics Conference UK

Non-Law Enforcement Mobile Forensics Conference UK.A queries that has been raised about "When and where are the Mobile Forensic Confere...

Cellphone Examination and Myths

Cellphone Examination and Myths.There are still, surprisingly, many who still promulgate myths by unwittingly conducting examinations in a p...

Mobile Evidence CDR/Billing Course

Mobile Evidence CDR/Billing Course.One-day live training session on mobile evidence CDR/Billing..- understanding and obtaining evidence- sta...

ECHR Fairness with evidence

European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)Fairness with evidence.As part of the training syllabus for students, consideration is given to th...

Mobile Phone Flash Memory Chip Evidence

Mobile Phone Flash Memory Chip Evidence.When recovering data using flasher box devices it may be useful to support the notion of obtaining a...

Fowler-Nordheim Tunnelling Principle

Fowler-Nordheim Tunnelling Principle.The floating gate can be charged and discharged by using Fowler-Nordheim "tunnelling". A prin...

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla

Important scientific history associated Nikola Tesla and it's his Birthday today. Magnetic field strengthhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?...

3-D TV on Mobile Phones

3-D TV on Mobile Phones.This is an interesting European funded research project which began January 2008 called MOBILE3DTV. The purpose of t...

UK Criminal Evidence Delays

UK Criminal Evidence Delays.Due to delays in passing evidence to the defence certain building blocks of evidence used against a defendant ar...

Prisoner - 60 years sentence for having a cellphone

Prisoner - 60 years sentence for having a cellphone .Derrick Ross, a prisoner at Coffield unit correctional facility received a 60 years sen...

X12 Stun Gun Freezes People at 88 Feet Away

X12 Stun Gun Freezes People at 88 Feet Away.Promoted through Gizmodo and The Raw Feed and announced by Taser International this is another o...

A808 Watch Phone With Bluetooth

A808 Watch Phone With Bluetooth.The spec for the A808 Tri-band (GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHZ), GPRS and Bluetooth connectivity, a 1.3 inch touc...

Undercover Officer Down, how might SIM Access Control Class help? Part 1

PART 1: Undercover Officer Down, how might SIM Access Control Class help?.The following is a scenario created to help examiners and experts ...

Mobile Telephone Examination Procedure

Mobile Telephone Examination Procedure.This discussion continues on the theme to highlight, over the last five years, the diminishing qualit...

Call Detail Record (CDR) GSM Mobile Telephone Call

Call Detail Record (CDR) GSM Mobile Telephone Call.For every mobile telephone call there should be a corresponding Call Detail Record (CDR)....

Brazilian Satellite Hack Crackdown

Brazilian Satellite Hack CrackdownWired Magazine run an interesting news article entitled "The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown"...

Getting rid of the recession

Getting rid of the recession.Having a chat with local folks in my area I put an idea to them. If the government, instead of providing nearly...

Recording Telephone Calls

Recording Telephone Calls.A question that often gets asked is "Can I record a telephone call?" and the answer to that is that you ...

Don't be victimised by phone calls

Don't be victimised by phone calls.It is being noted that there is an exponential growth in harassing and intimidating calls from financ...

What is happening with Digital Forensics UK

What is happening with Digital Forensics UK.For those of you that did not know, which is probably most of the digital forensics community in...

Forensic Science Regulator

Forensic Science Regulator.I would urge all of you who examine mobile telephones and computers that if you want to do public sector work for...

Exploding Cell Phone Battery

Exploding Cell Phone Battery.A reminder for examiners to take care when examining mobile phones that require recharging the battery before e...

GSM mobile phone radio technologies power ahead

GSM mobile phone radio technologies power ahead.As mobile and mobile telephone communications power ahead with continuing growth, and predic...

Giving Evidence

Giving Evidence. Experience suggests when giving evidence at Court, keep it simple. That doesn't mean you cannot speak technically nor t...

Cellular Phones, Warrantless Searches

Cellular Phones, Warrantless Searches.I have just read an interesting paper, published at the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) website...

SIM PIN Challenge 2

SIM PIN Challenge 2. A reminder that this challenge ends on the 15th February 2012: . http://trewmte.blogspot.com/2009/01/sim-pin-challenge....

SIM PIN Challenge 2

SIM PIN Challenge 2.A reminder that this challenge ends on the 15th February 2009:.http://trewmte.blogspot.com/2009/01/sim-pin-challenge.htm...

God is a Wireless Scientist Too !

God is a Wireless Scientist Too !.Listening to the early universe just got harder according to a team, led by Alan Kogut, at NASA's Godd...

Mobile Phones and GPS Forensics & Evidence

Mobile Phones and GPS Forensics & Evidence.Mobile telephones are the predominate wireless telecommunications device throughout the world...

Part 2 MOBILE FORENSICS AND EVIDENCE DEGREES

Part 2 MOBILE FORENSICS AND EVIDENCE DEGREESI have received a question about the Degrees and whether there is sufficient educational materia...

Mobile Forensics and Evidence Degrees BSc, MSc and PhD

MOBILE FORENSICS AND EVIDENCE DEGREES BSc, MSc and PhD.The introduction of academic qualifications (at the levels of BSc, MSc and PhD) in th...

Checking Masts - CSA 2

Checking Masts - CSA 2.In response to the Checking Masts - CSA previous thread here at my blog, a Forensic Focus member asked the following ...

CHECKING MASTS - CSA

CHECKING MASTS - CSA.Since linking with Jamie Morris at Forensic Focus to create a Mobile Forensics Discussion Forum (http://www.forensicfoc...

SIM PIN Challenge

SIM PIN Challenge.Back in 2005 I was at a presentation by a SIM manufacturer when the presentation turned to CHV (Card Holder Verification),...

DAPRA Interference Multiple Access (IMA)

DAPRA Interference Multiple Access (IMA).I saw a YouTube presentation from BAE systems about a new communications algorithms system called D...

Mobile Forensics Discussion Forum

Mobile Forensics Discussion Forum.I have linked up with Jamie Morris of ForensicFocus (www.forensicfocus.com) to run a Mobile Forensics Disc...