Apple sued over iPad and iPhone app 'data leaks'

Apple sued over iPad and iPhone app 'data leaks' The BBC article doesn't mention it, but it would be helpful to know what person...

Tutorial Pt1 - Creating an Elementary File

Tutorial Pt1 - Creating an Elementary FileWhen examining ICC (SIM)/ UICC ((U)SIM) Cards data is commonly extracted and harvested from partic...

Self Deleting Text Messages

Self Deleting Text Messages How to send self deleting SMS according to a computer hacking website that reports "this technique is calle...

Spoofing Legislation

Spoofing Legislation Called the "Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010" the legislation (HR 1258 Report No 111-461 / Union Calendar No 26...

iPhone - Evidence Handset Reader Tools

iPhone - Evidence Handset Reader Tools Two questions: 1) How many 'evidence' handset reader tools can you name off the top of your h...

A Field of Remembrance

A Field of Remembrance In the Christian religion, and I put my name down as one who believes, there is a poignant, moving verse in New Testa...

Mobile Telephone Blogs Approved Access Only

Mobile Telephone Blogs Approved Access Only I have endeavoured to be free with sharing knowledge and information over the years through my b...

UK Roaming Orange and T-Mobile

UK Roaming Orange and T-Mobile I got a text message today (08/10/10) from Orange informing me "Now you can pick up a signal from both ...

CSA and seamless roaming

CSA and seamless roamingUK seamless roaming on the H3G to O2 and H3G to Orange always added further dimensions needing to be investigated wh...

ISO 17025 Toolkit

ISO 17025 Toolkit Members at the Institute for Digital Forensics (IDF) Group at LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/)  we are discussing the c...

Cyberbullying Report

Cyberbullying Report US analysis of the use of email, websites, Instant Messages, Twitter, Facebook and other online resources to torment, h...

US Cases - Interpretation regarding seizure

US Cases - Interpretation regarding seizure Two interesting US cases posted at Susan Brenner, Professor of Law, blog highlighting the comple...

Quad-SIM (4 in 1)

Quad-SIM (4 in 1)Wonder how we will handle the examination of this beast? Which profile will need to be read first? Will the handset have di...

Smart Card Hacking

Smart Card HackingBack in 2002 I wrote about SIM Card Cloning for examiners to demonstrate the state of the market place, where software and...

Location Update (LU) and Cell Site Analysis (CSA)

Location Update (LU) and Cell Site Analysis (CSA)Heine, G; referred to the model "An MS performs LU on several occasions: every time it...

Poppies and Heroes

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

Poppies and Heroes

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

Poppies and Heroes

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

Mobile Phones Carrying Warning Signs

Mobile Phones Carrying Warning Signs Back in 1997 the journailist Michael Fleet wrote in the Daily Telegraph Tuesday May 6th about a repor...

Mobile Face Recognition Might Replace Password/PIN

Mobile Face Recognition Might Replace Password/PIN One exciting aspect about forensic examination of mobile handsets is the constant expos...

Charlie Chaplin and the 1928 mystery mobile phone

Charlie Chaplin and the 1928 mystery mobile phone Regular visitors to my webblog are already aware, however if you are a first time visitor ...

Four Blogs

Four BlogsI have four open webblogs that are active:http://trewmte.blogspot.comhttp://cellsiteanalysis.blogspot.comhttp://sim2usim.blogspot....

Four Blogs

Four BlogsI have four open webblogs that are active:http://trewmte.blogspot.comhttp://cellsiteanalysis.blogspot.comhttp://sim2usim.blogspot....

Four Blogs

Four Blogs I have four open webblogs that are active: http://trewmte.blogspot.com http://cellsiteanalysis.blogspot.com http://sim2usim.blogs...

Cyber What?

Cyber What? We had a short discussion recently about "cyber" labels and their meanings. The wave that has been engulfing society f...

Domestic Abuse is a Crime

Domestic Abuse is a Crime If there was a public stand and famous people such as Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Louis Walsh were stood on it prom...

Mobile Phone outsourcing goes insourcing pt2

Do you remember back in March I wrote the piece about "Mobile Phone outsourcing goes insourcing" ( http://trewmte.blogspot.com/201...

Vision of Mobile Phones in 1976

Photo courtesy of www.paleofuture.com/  Vision of Mobile Phones in 1976 I am glad to see more and more information popping up on the Interne...

Apple's Killer Patent for Jailbreakers

Apple's Killer Patent for Jailbreakers Apple has used the route of a patent to institute a series of measures to protect its devices fro...

US Case: Daubert and Cell Site Analysis Maps

US Case: Daubert and Cell Site Analysis MapsI having been an advocate, as many of you know, for many years for the use in evidence of netw...

US Case: Daubert and Cell Site Analysis Maps

US Case: Daubert and Cell Site Analysis MapsI having been an advocate, as many of you know, for many years for the use in evidence of networ...

SMS 25 Years Old Today

SMS 25 Years Old TodayToday, SMS (short message service) text messaging cellebrates its birthday. The service was technically created in 198...

One-Size-Fits-All Power Charger

One-Size-Fits-All Power ChargerManufacturers have agreed to create a single one-size-fits-all power charger, thus the expectation of a stand...

Deleted messages uncovers fake rape claim

Deleted messages uncovers fake rape claimHaving specialised in the UK for many years dealing with deleted data and having published many pap...

Mobile Telephone Evidence (MTE) VOL7 MTE02 2010

Mobile Telephone Evidence (MTE) VOL7 MTE02 2010.- Market Trends.- Self Destructing SMS Message.- Mobile Antenna Forensics (MAF).- Historical...

5-Billion Mobile Subscriptions forecast by Q4-2010

Mobile market forecasts all predict the heavily reliance on GSM/3G/LTE and Mobile WiMax etc over the next 15 years. This is something I have...

Forensic Student Conference

Forensic Student ConferenceMTEB STUDENT FORENSICS & MOBILE / SMART / WIRELESS MARKETPLACE©MTEB Pathfinder CourseEvery student involved w...

How long will Computer Forensic Standards Last?

How long will Computer Forensic Standards Last?A police officer switching ON a device that is already switched OFF at a potental crime scene...

Market Trends - Mobile/Smart Phones

Market Trends - Mobile/Smart PhonesThere is a considerable body of factual and statistical evidence defining the continuing and diversified ...

Fundamentals & Principles, Mobile Phone Programming

Fundamentals & Principles, Mobile Phone ProgrammingAt the MTEB Conference 2009 Greg Smith TrewMTE stated that the MTEB would launch a se...

Cell Site Analysis Fundamentals

Cell Site Analysis FundamentalsCOURSE CONTENTSection 1 IntroductionSection 2 Legal and Technical FrameworksSection 3 GSM and 3GPP StandardsS...

Gold Wafer SIM Cards

Gold Wafer SIM CardsA snippet of information I recently noted that was interesting related to the recyclicable gold used in SIM Cards. It is...

3G USIM 2G SIM Service Numbers

3G USIM 2G SIM Service Numbers3G USIM (2010-04)Service n°1: Local Phone BookService n°2: Fixed Dialling Numbers (FDN)Service n°3: E...

CSA: Directed Retry Can Alter Mobile Phone's Location

CSA: Directed Retry Can Alter Mobile Phone's LocationClass│Value│0 0 0│1 1 0 1│ Directed RetryThe accuracy or inaccuracy of cell site an...

Orange and Vodka - mixing mobile networks

Orange and Vodka - mixing mobile networks(shaken, not stirred).Good title for a book or article that heading. I thought this would be a usef...

UTRAN & GERAN 3G Inter-PLMN Handover

UTRAN & GERAN 3G Inter-PLMN Handover.The subscriber's home network is France. The visited network where the subscriber is registered...

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 ...

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...

Checking Masts - CSA 2

Checking Masts - CSA 2.In response to the discussion at Checking Masts - CSA, a couple of questions that I have been asked:.- Do you, yourse...

CHECKING MASTS - CSA

CHECKING MASTS - CSA.I have had several discussions with people who are new to mobile telephone evidence and have asked me to provide furthe...

CSA: Mobile Phones and Fringe Coverage

CSA: Mobile Phones and Fringe Coverage.I have this habit with mobile phones and cell coverage that when I see something that interests me, e...

CSA: From Ockham's (Occam's) Razor to Checking Mast

CSA: From Ockham's (Occam's) Razor to Checking MastsCreating a 'de facto' standard is always going to be a hard job and none...

Cell Site Analysis - .DT1 Files

Cell Site Analysis - .DT1 FilesWhy is this electronic file extension (.DT1) and significantly the data it contains important to the law of e...

GSM Mast Installations (Density)

GSM Mast Installations (Density).When planning a cellular radio network there are many aspects to consider. The matter of radio technology a...

GSM MS List of States for the cell selection process

GSM MS List of States for the cell selection processThe GSM mobile station (MS) enters various states when switched on, but in the idle mode...

GSM Timers

GSM TimersIn the thread Cell Site Analysis-Call Analysis it highlighted the range of Cause Failures for mobile calls. The overview it provid...

Cell Site Analysis - Call Analysis

Cell Site Analysis - Call AnalysisAn element of Cell Site Analysis is Call Analysis. Evidence seen at court is often on the basis that the c...

Cell Site Analysis - Criminal Case

Cell Site Analysis - Criminal CaseIN HER MAJESTY'S COURT OF APPEAL IN NORTHERN IRELANDNeutral Citation no. [2008] NICA 5THE QUEEN v RICH...

GSM Radio Test Measurements - Non-Dominance

GSM Radio Test Measurements - Non-Dominance Screen Image 1Readers and cell site analysis students will recall the thread GSM Radio Test Meas...

GSM Radio Test Measurements

GSM Radio Test MeasurementsRadio Test Measurements 1 The screen image (Radio Test Measurements 1) represents the output results of radio cov...

Cell Site Analysis Obervations

Cell Site Analysis Obervations"Radio, she is a beauty but a mistress to none. Just when you think you have her coralled up she'll j...

Evidence and Admissibility Part 2

Evidence and Admissibility Part 2.In the first discussion on Evidence and Admissibility that appeared in Part 1 there was reference made to ...

Evidence and Admissibility Part 1

Evidence and Admissibility Part 1The analysis that can never stop relates to issues associated with evidence and admissibility. We need thou...

MTEdipl Diplomas

MTEdipl Diplomas. For registered students and those going through the process of registering for the Diplomas for the start of the Septemb...

Diplomas: MTEdipl Syllabus and Student Handbook

Diplomas: MTEdipl Syllabus and Student HandbookThe distance learning and self-study Diplomas: Mobile Telephone Evidence (MTEdipl) Syllabus a...

Diplomas: Mobile Telephone Evidence (MTEdipl)

Diplomas: Mobile Telephone Evidence (MTEdipl).The Diplomas provide individuals with a path to recognition for demonstrating development of s...

Orange and Vodka - mixing mobile networks

Orange and Vodka - mixing mobile networks(shaken, not stirred).Good title for a book or article that heading. I thought this would be a usef...

Taping Business Mobile Phone Calls

Taping Business Mobile Phone CallsThe Financial Services Authority (FSA) consultation report, entitled "CP10/7 [PDF] Taping: Removing ...

St George's Day 23rd April

St George's Day 23rd AprilI was taken by surprise when I was asked recently why are we celebrating St George's Day? So rather than m...

Mobile Telephone Examination Charges

Mobile Telephone Examination ChargesGiven the changing economic climate I have now assembled a team of examiners, and with flexible charges ...

UTRAN & GERAN 3G Inter-PLMN Handover

UTRAN & GERAN 3G Inter-PLMN Handover . The subscriber's home network is France. The visited network where the subscriber is register...

Seminar on GSM Standards Updated

Seminar on GSM Standards Updated.Updated for Seminar on GSM Standards (previous link):http://trewmte.blogspot.com/2010/03/seminar-on-gsm-sta...

Linux - out-of-memory (L-OOM)

Linux - out-of-memory (L-OOM) Whilst researching on mobile phones using Linux OS I came across a report on guidelines for creating robust ...

Seminar on GSM Standards

Seminar on GSM Standards.It is clear that associated with mobile phone examination to obtain evidence that examiners must read the GSM Stand...

Mobile Phone outsourcing goes insourcing

Mobile Phone outsourcing goes insourcingKENT NEWS: Sim card specialists will aid the technological tussle with crime following the formatio...

Google says PC will be irrelevant in 3 years

Google says PC will be irrelevant in 3 yearsInteresting article in The Register:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/05/google_says_pc_will_...

Mobile Phone is not a 'Closed Container' Part 2

Mobile Phone is not a 'Closed Container' Part 2 I mentioned in the thread " Mobile Phone is not a 'Closed Container' ...

Mobile Phone is not a 'Closed Container'

Mobile Phone is not a 'Closed Container'. There has recently been an important judgment in an Ohio Supreme Court that ruled a mobile...

Humanitarian Aid or Pay As You Throw?

Humanitarian Aid or Pay As You Throw?Vodafone's 150 design shape reminds me that this looks like a squared-edged version of the old rou...

Certified/Validated Mobile Phone Tools

Certified/Validated Mobile Phone Tools.A Poll running over on ForensicFocus (www.forensicfocus.com) concerns mobile phone tools used for exa...

Finger powers mobile phone battery

Finger powers mobile phone battery.At trewmte.blogspot I have endeavoured over the years to ensure part of the content identifies innovation...

MNO & VMNO SIM Cards

MNO & VMNO SIM Cards..If everyone can email to me (trewmte@gmail.com) a photo image of any MNO or VMNO SIMs complete in ISO Card (ID-1 c...

ACPO Managers Guide

ACPO Managers Guide.Good Practice and Advice Guide for Managers of e-Crime Investigations.I telephoned and spoke with a personable Stephen C...

Location Area Codes (LAC)

Location Area Codes (LAC)The desire to create databases containing MCC/MNC/LAC/CellID may seem a good idea but might produce inaccurate or e...

Victorian Texting

Victorian Texting.During the Christmas 2009 break I managed to visit and take the tour of Porthcurno Telegraph Museum in Cornwall (http://w...