Computer Forensics
Expert insights into computer forensics, data recovery, and digital evidence analysis for legal and investigative professionals.
Assessing Law Enforcement’s Role Review what digital evidence law enforcement has collected: discovery motions, social media records, provider records, surveillance [...]
Assessing the Scene When assessing a scene, look for surveillance cameras, potential witnesses, nearby businesses, social media activity around the [...]
Assessing Involved Persons Check the digital footprint of involved persons—social media activity, devices you may have access to, provider records, [...]
Assessing the Client During client assessment, identify the client’s devices, service provider, social media accounts, associates, cloud backups, and vehicle [...]
The ABCs of Digital Evidence Assessment Follow a repeatable process. Use the ABCs: Assess, Baseline, Collect. Assess the client, scene, [...]
Repeatable Processes = Reliable Digital Evidence A repeatable approach is essential when collecting or evaluating digital evidence, this helps you [...]
Digital Evidence Handling Electronic evidence are sensitive to heat, cold, humidity, shock, static, and magnetic fields. Use paper bags, envelopes, [...]
Basic Digital Evidence Handling When handling digital devices, avoid viewing files or opening programs. Photograph the device front and back, [...]
Why Chain of Custody Matters Chain of custody shows how digital evidence was handled, packaged, stored, and transferred. Proper documentation [...]
Chain of Custody & Documentation Chain of Custody proves the evidence was never altered or tampered with, protecting its admissibility [...]
🖨️ Need a report you can email or print? Use “Export Single Item” to quickly generate a small PDF with [...]
Reliability, Authenticity & the Best Evidence Rule Admissible digital evidence must be relevant, authentic, and reliable. Metadata and a clear [...]
When to Bring in an Expert Digital evidence collection, preservation, and validation often require specialized expertise and software. Bringing in [...]
Admissibility Depends on Metadata Integrity For digital evidence to be admissible in court, it must be validated—typically through metadata. If [...]
🗃️ Open multiple Report files at once. Cellebrite Reader lets you search and analyze multiple phones at once—great for co-defendant [...]
Why Forensic Collection Is Essential Digital evidence must be collected forensically. Using proper tools—including write blockers—prevents metadata from being altered [...]
📌 Tag & Bookmark key data. Found a key call, chat, or location? Tag it, and bookmark it for instant [...]
What to Avoid When Handling Digital Evidence Avoid opening or viewing files directly—doing so changes critical metadata. Metadata shows when [...]
🧵 View messages in conversation layout. Click the chat icon in Cellebrite Reader to display messages as they appear on [...]
What is Metadata? Metadata is what makes digital evidence admissible in court. All Digital Evidence contains metadata, metadata can show [...]
Preserving Integrity Through Best Practices Evidence collected not following the best practices and standards will be inadmissible. Using standards and [...]
Assessing Evidence Collected by Law Enforcement Prevent wrongful convictions and give effective representation for your client by using the Best [...]
Need to find an address, keyword, or name across thousands of messages? ✅ Type it in the Global Search bar. [...]
📚 PDF reports aren’t enough. The Cellebrite Reader (UFDR) report has searchable, sortable, and visual data. It's the version you [...]
⏱️ Timezones make or break digital evidence. Set the time zone correctly in Cellebrite Reader to avoid misleading timelines. 📍 [...]
Standards & Best Practices Matter Digital evidence collection must follow repeatable, defensible procedures. Avoid viewing files manually—digital evidence is fragile [...]
What is Digital Evidence? Digital Evidence is in 90% of cases and is extremely compelling. What is Digital Evidence? Information [...]
🧠 Don't just open Cellebrite reports—navigate them. The UFDR Reader unlocks more than data. It gives you search, tagging, and [...]
Digital evidence is time sensitive. Assess the digital evidence you have, triage for time sensitive parts of the digital evidence [...]
Digital evidence is time sensitive. Assess the digital evidence you have, triage for time sensitive parts of the digital evidence [...]
Wrongful Convictions Happen The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded thousands of exonerations since 1989 and recent studies estimate that 4% [...]
The use of digital evidence in criminal cases has evolved over time as technology has advanced and now constitutes 90% [...]
