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Quarter of a Million Given the vast numbers using the internet finding trewmte.blogspot must seem like trying to find a grain of sand on a b...

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ForensicMobex has moved to MTEB LinkedIn Group as a subgroup: Stakeholder Information----------------------- Mission Statement: Expert discu...

A European Focused Mobile Consumer Survey

A European Focused Mobile Consumer Survey Informa Telecom and Media have published the results of their Smartphone Usage and Behaviour Surve...

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US Handset Serial Number Databases

US Handset Serial Number Databases US operators maintain their own stolen and blacklisted cellphone databases. As of the 31st October 2012 t...

EU Cybercrime (aka real name ICT ecrime)

EU Cybercrime (aka real name ICT ecrime) Setting up the the criminal legal framework: Judicial cooperation in criminal matters: combating at...

Mobile Flash Data Erasure

Mobile Flash Data Erasure                                                   Photo courtesy of Blancco The growth in smart phones naturally...

iPhone Secret Folder

iPhone Secret Folder Opening the taps on this one could prove useful:   https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/secrets-folder-pro-lock-your/id56651...

Mobile Weapons and Seizure Procedure

Mobile Weapons and Seizure Procedure The MTEB (Mobile Telephone Examination Board) is preparing the Eighth Edition of Section 4 Mobile Telep...

Age UK introduces mobile for elderly

Age UK introduces mobile for elderly Evidential examiners may not expect to find our elderly senior citizens getting into bother and doing t...

A Hacker's Guide: iOS6 Kernel Security

A Hacker's Guide: iOS6 Kernel Security The recent release of iOS6 has introduced improved security by strengthening the Kernel. This pre...

LTE 4GEE

LTE 4GEE As Orange/T-Mobile has launched Everything Everywhere (EE) 4G/LTE ahead of the other major UK MNO players I took a web-stroll over ...

Mobile Examination HW / SW Considerations Pt3

Mobile Examination HW / SW Considerations Pt3 The links to previous discussions are at the foot of this article. In Part 2 reference was mad...

LTE, Test Trials and Cell Site Analysis

LTE, Test Trials and Cell Site Analysis There are some strange views floating around that cell site analysis is highly difficult or impossib...

Originals and Copies. Britain and Smartphone Manufacturing

Originals and Copies. Britain and Smartphone Manufacturing A recent post at Global Sources discussed the Chinese smartphone manufacturing co...

Mobile Examination HW / SW Considerations Pt2

Mobile Examination HW / SW Considerations Pt2 The design of memory allocation and chips in telephones may not follow a prescribed standard. ...

To Clone or NOT to Clone?

To Clone or NOT to Clone? The purpose of this article is to reiterate the issues surrounding the best practice model of the forensic examina...

Mobile Examination HW / SW Considerations Pt1

Mobile Examination HW / SW Considerations Pt1 Mobile phone forensics requires a level of examiner capability to conduct the examination. The...

PM Cameron needs new ideas

PM Cameron needs new ideas The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, needs new ideas. If £30 million (just spending £2 million on a cyber c...

The rates of pay

The rates of pay There is an old saying "never apologise for what you can earn"; quoted in the context relating to the provision o...

Kenya bans counterfeit mobiles being used

Kenya bans counterfeit mobiles being used "Kenya is set to switch off all uncertified mobile phones in the country by the end of Septem...

JTAG Tutorial

JTAG Tutorial  Certain mobile phones have no other access capability other than a test interface to allow for debugging and memory analysis ...

Threats and Forcing SMS delay

Following my article France Car Shootings and Mobile Evidence http://www.trewmte.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/france-car-shootings-and-mobile-evid...

France Car Shootings and Mobile Evidence

France Car Shootings and Mobile Evidence It is well known by now that the team investigating the shootings in the French Alps discovered two...

Catching the IMSI Catchers

 “IMSI catcher catcher”—a device designed to snoop on the snoopers, sniffing out anyone operating an IMSI catcher in a given location. Spyin...

Roll Call - 10 Years Service to Mobile Phone Examination

Roll Call - 10 Years Service to Mobile Phone Examination The MTEB is endeavouring to track down nearly 400 people to provide a Certificate o...

Were you on these courses in 2002-2004?

 Were you on these courses in 2002-2004? MTEB is trying to track down those delegates who attended the following courses during 2002 to 2004...

Data Usage in Cell Site Analysis

Data Usage in Cell Site Analysis There are numerous common mistakes that can be made when conducting cell site analysis, and a mistake becom...

MTEB Recognition Certificate Awards

  MTEB Recognition Certificate Awards Category: Outstanding Contribution E-Evidence.Info MTEB recognises e-evidence.info and its services to...

Clueful knows what iPhone apps are doing

For those wishing to retain privacy or those involved in eDiscovery, investigation, examination and/or evidence Bitdefender's Clueful id...

NFC Phone Hacking

"...presentation included a demonstration of the use of a malicious NFC device which, simply when placed close enough to a user's p...

The Art of Mobile Jamming Pt 2 (c)2012

The Art of Mobile Jamming Pt 2 (c)2012 Part 1 - http://trewmte.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/art-of-mobile-jamming-pt-1-c2012.html In Pt 2 the disc...

EU Ruling on reselling of used software

EU Ruling on reselling of used software The ruling in the case of UsedSoft GmbH -v- Oracle International Corporation could have quite a prof...

Changing the concept of rotary dial phone

Changing the concept of rotary dial phone Good to see telephones likes the old 1980s GPO 746 Rotary Dial Telephone can still influence today...

The Art of Mobile Jamming Pt 1 (c)2012

The Art of Mobile Jamming Pt 1 (c)2012 Bill 15 introduced to the House of Commons on 20 June 2012 is titled PRISONS (INTERFERENCE WITH WIREL...

Hidden data battery investigations

Hidden data battery investigations Due to a common embedded c...

iPhone changing to 19-pin port?

iPhone changing to 19-pin port? Image courtesy of Tech Crunch This could be an interesting twist in the marketplace relating to Apple's ...

ETSI release details of new 4FF UICC

ETSI release details of new 4FF UICC Following on from the discussion ( http://www.trewmte.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/sim-card-new-4ff-form-fact...

CSA - Masts and a head for heights

There are occasions when cell site analysis may require climbing the Mast. You really do have to have a head for heights and here is one vid...

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On 1st June 2012 ETSI announced a new SIM Card size has been agreed and approved for inclusion in the standard TS.102221 and the new inclusi...

CSA - R&TTE Directive

R&TTE Directive applies to telecommunications and radio equipment and therefore is applicable to examiners and advisors involved with fo...

CSA - GSM Timing advance and absolute delay

The notion of GSM Timing advance and absolute delay as considered in relation to cell site analysis (CSA) requires not only understanding th...

New malware invokes label "cyber weapon"

New malware invokes label "cyber weapon" A report from the BBC News online technology section ( http://www.bbc.com/news/technology...

Trace Log Generator

Trace Log Generator I am looking into creating a new handset tool that generates a trace log of commands sent to the handset and responses r...

Evidence is one thing, Understanding is another

Evidence is one thing, Understanding is another I like Nokia. They were in at the beginning and presented the World with options, and so man...

GSM Cell Selection Process

There are many aspects of GSM that provide useful guidance to understand processes that are performed regarding cell selection. These proces...

Delete GPS Movements

Delete GPS Movements I noticed an interesting app that promotes enhancing GPS location positioning using A-GPS where the app tweaks the accu...

Data and Time Stamps

Data and Time Stamps An important issue to bear in mind when dealing with any analogue or digital device that contain a 'clock', for...

Mini Course in Cell Site Identification (Pt3.s2)

Mini Course in Cell Site Identification (Pt3.s2) Links to previous discussions in these Mini Course modules: Mini Course in Cell Site Identi...

Evidence interpretation

Evidence interpretation "The problem with SMS messages today is that one cannot tell which texts are truthful."  William Ewart Gla...

Examination Techniques8: Simple Experiments2

Examination Techniques8: Simple Experiments2 Continuing the discussion to offer suggestions on ways to generate test methodologies in order ...

Examination Techniques7: Bluetooth Headset

Examination Techniques7: Bluetooth Headset Examiners may find it useful to be reminded to obtain a copy the bluetooth headset (DUT) user gui...

Cyclists Laws Require Registration

Cyclists Laws Require Registration Unconfirmed reports, writes Loof Prila, are that Lord Raleigh the Minister for Cycling may announce short...

Blinking Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS)

Blinking Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) Security issue concerns raised about Samsung's 'Face Unlock' has received a boost in the new O...

Examination Techniques6: Simple Experiments

Examination Techniques6: Simple Experiments Leaving validation to one side, when I am teaching mobile phone examination I get delegates on t...

Examination Techniques5: Validation and Verification

Examination Techniques5: Validation and Verification The constant and never ending challenge to ensure examination tools meets the requireme...

Archived Data

Archived Data In the UK, the operators tend to vary their approach to data retention made available to law enforcement and data subj...

Hashing Call Records

Hashing Call Records Given the varying development of mobile phone forensics and evidence practices and procedures around the world, I have ...

Examination Techniques4: iPhone PDP Context

Examination Techniques4: iPhone PDP Context In examination techniques3 it explored the potential for an examiner to investigate values and c...

Turning Water into Wine? Well no, Power, actually!

Turning Water into Wine? Well no, Power, actually! Photo courtesy of Physorg.com By searching my blog readers can find that I have endeavour...

Examination Techniques3: Blackberry Bold

Examination Techniques3: Blackberry Bold Examiners may have noticed that the internet is flooded with secret or hack codes that may be enter...

iPhone logs for forensics students to explore

iPhone logs for forensics students to explore Apologies in advance for the length of the information below.   For forensics students who do ...

20th Anniversary 2012/13 for SMS Texting

20th Anniversary 2012/13 for SMS Texting If you like obscure facts, then this may be just up your street. Importantly, text messaging is one...

128-Gigabit flash chip

128-Gigabit flash chip SanDisk partnered with Toshiba produced some interesting technical stats with this new flash chip capable of 128-giga...

Happy Birthday Heinrich Hertz

Happy Birthday Heinrich Hertz February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894 A pioneer of radio signals and as a consequence the future of radio, all t...

Examination Techniques2: Android

Examination Techniques2: Android To assist formulate a conclusion how a device (DUT) has been used examining apps the user has recently used...

Examination Techniques1: iOS5 Safari Browsing

Examination Techniques1: iOS5 Safari Browsing When conducting examinations it may be helpful to raise the observation that an investigator m...

Appeal Case - Mobile Phone Stun Gun

Mobile Phone Stun Gun Case The recent appeal case of Matthew Brereton overturned by the Appeal Court to have his sentence reduced brought to...

Pinging mobile phones

Pinging mobile phones http://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/biltxt/intro/HB1108I.htm SECOND REGULAR SESSION HOUSE BILL NO. 1108 96TH GEN...

Privacy Act for Mobile Devices

Privacy Act for Mobile Devices Do you recall last year when the Carrier IQ story broke about user keystrokes being monitored by clandestine ...

Smaller Caliber Guided Bullet

Smaller Caliber Guided Bullet Said to reach a target upto 2K-metres this lazer guided bullet contains an optical sensor, CPU, battery and el...

Mobile Phone Sniffer

Mobile Phone Sniffer Preventing inmates who are detained at Her Majesty's pleasure from making mobile calls has been a harder task than ...

15 years charged AA Battery Mobile Phone

15 years charged AA Battery Mobile Phone It's a mobile phone (not smartphone) with voice and SMS and on top of that offers a patented ba...

Changing Memory Storage and World Mobile Markets

Changing Memory Storage and World Mobile Markets In the chaos of uncertainty created by an even more uncertain global economic climate mobil...

Installing Multi Band Mini Base Stations (MBMBS)

Installing Multi Band Mini Base Stations (MBMBS) There is a large selection of material about Femtocells and their usefulness as a participa...

Power in a suitcase

Power in a suitcase Do you remember the discussion at my blog about a Backpack unit that could be used to generate power? Weblink to Backpac...

IPv6 chooses D-Day for World Launch Date

IPv6 chooses D-Day for World Launch Date We normally associate the day 6th June with D-Day (1944) because of an incredible wartime historica...

Mini Course in Cell Site Identification (Pt3.s1)

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Cell Phone - Pocket Microscope

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