Once the idea of an operating system being independent of the hardware took hold in the PC market several things happened; hardware became less important to your average buyer, as long as a computer ran Windows you knew where you were, this led to people losing brand loyalty to the hardware brands.
The capacity of mobile phones to store, and steal, intellectual property is vast and with more companies issuing corporate mobiles to greater numbers of staff with few controls over their usage and even less ability to check for misuse, the possibility of fraud, theft of IP and other misuse is high.
Mobile Phone Forensics
Mobile phones hold much more than just a phonebook. They store data on a SIM card and on the phone body's own memory. And, just like computers, this data is at risk if it is not examined in a forensically sound manner.
Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s) are palmtop computers, often with mobile phone capabilities built in.
These devices offer greater functionality than a typical phone, enabling full web browsing, media playing and document handling capabilities. Whilst this often leads to more information being recoverable, examining PDA’s requires specialist techniques more commonly used in computer forensics to ensure the fullest recovery of data. FTS has the experience and know-how to recover data from the many different types of portable computing devices available today, including BlackBerry and Apple iPhone.
CCL-Forensics is out in force at the busy F3 (First Forensic Forum) conference in Gloucestershire.
The event, which runs today and tomorrow at Tortworth Court is a gathering of some of the UK’s leading forensic experts and practitioners.
CCL-Forensics is well represented with Mark Larson (Forensics Manager), David Lattimore (Total Quality Manager) and Darren Payne (Operations Manager) all in attendance.
CCL-Forensics has partnered with digital forensics training provider, Control-F, to co-author a white paper on the underlying structure of widely used video files on mobile phones.
This can enable forensic examiners to apply a much more intelligent approach to recovering deleted video from a mobile phone hex dump.
