Posted by: Frederick Lane
on 22 September 2009
The conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud trial of former Bear Sterns fund manager Matthew Tannin offers an object lesson for computer forensic specialists and electronic investigators on the fragility of cloud data. At issue, the Wall Street Journal reports, is whether the government can introduce evidence that Tannin deleted his Google mail account in March 2008, rendering the information unrecoverable for trial eighteen months later.
Posted by: Frederick Lane
on 10 September 2009
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Last April, a murder in Boston's tony Back Bay made headlines across the country. From one perspective, there was sadly nothing remarkable about the crime: a woman advertising erotic services ("massage") was assaulted and murdered by a customer. But what caught everyone's attention was the fact that the alleged killer found his victim on Craigslist, an online classified advertising site that included a category called "Erotic Services."
Posted by: Frederick Lane
on 27 October 2008
Software giant Microsoft is assisting in
the search for a missing Canadian teenager named Brandon Crisp. At the request of Ontario law enforcement, Microsoft has agreed to release confidential information about the teen's online activity while playing
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. In addition, the company has added $25,000 to the award offered for information about his whereabouts.
Posted by: Frederick Lane
on 26 October 2008
A new website, My Mobile Witness, offers a unique new service: subpoena-free data recovery by law enforcement. And yes, it's a feature, not a bug.
The free site serves as an electronic vault for photos and messages sent from mobile devices. Its target audience is the paranoid, the suspicious, and the nosy.
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