DIGITAL FORENSICS

Know Your Data Before Someone Else Does

It is well established that data from our beloved electronic devices contains deep insight into our lives. Law enforcement and specialist providers increasingly rely on this digital forensics to investigate and prosecute (often illegally), yet the ability for an individual to access and examine their own data in a similar fashion has remained largely inaccessible. We think it’s time to level the playing field.

Why Should I Care About What Is On My Devices?

Consider it good digital hygiene, like reviewing your bank statement. Ensure nothing is amiss, and detect and remove anything that should not be there. Forewarned is forearmed.

STALKERWARE: any software designed specifically to facilitate spying on someone. Including but not limited to keystroke logging, accessing cameras, microphones, all communications, GPS, etc. This plague is on the rise, and the malicious apps are mostly undetectable by standard antivirus.

ILLEGAL CONTENT: People often share devices (sometimes unwittingly). What happens when another user downloads illegal content to the shared device, but you are in possession of it at the time of an incident which leads to your arrest? Good luck with the aftermath from child pornography charges, even after they’ve been dropped. This happens. Standard search tools won’t find hidden or deleted files, but a forensic search will.

SUPERVISION OF MINORS: Kids are often more technologically sophisticated than the parents, and will successfully hide data from them. If they can hide it from us, there’s an internship available.

PREVENTING LEAKAGE AND OVERREACH: Sometimes we have to submit our devices to third parties for repair or evidence collection. Repair technicians are known to plunder private photographs. Law enforcement regularly ingest more data than agreed upon, then prosecute unrelated charges based on “evidence discovered during the course of investigation”. Know what data is on your device before turning it over.

LITIGATION SUPPORT: You know that necessary evidence is scattered amongst your devices: desktop, laptop, phone, tablet, smart watch or speaker, SD card, abacus, whatever. You need it all collected in one place, organized, easy to browse and search - with available expert analysis.

DOWNLOAD ALL YOUR CLOUD DATA: Looking to make a clean break from Google or Apple services? Ever wondered exactly what’s stored with them? Download all your cloud data for examination, or to archive and delete the online accounts. Our tools are far more comprehensive than their export utilities.

QUESTION ANY EVIDENCE PREVIOUSLY COLLECTED FROM YOUR PHONE: In addition to knowing what’s on your device before there’s a potential issue, turns out there may be a good reason to question any digital evidence you’ve previously submitted via phone. Law Enforcement, investigators, and other third parties have long tampered with physical and digital evidence. Now one of their cornerstone DFIR tools, Cellebrite, has had serious vulnerabilities exposed by Signal CEO, Moxie Marlinspike. With this bombshell, practically any and all convictions based on Cellebrite forensics are suspect, and attorneys are already clamoring for them to be overturned, or at least have the data reacquired where possible.

Why Choose Mid-Atlantic Science?

One of our goals is to make advanced technology accessible to underserved populations. We demystify the tech and speak plainly. We pride ourselves in maintaining a no BS, results-driven approach (if you’ll forgive the corporate speak).

Our office is located in downtown Houston, TX with sufficient computing power, located in-house for most jobs, so your data does not leave the premises. If your project requires greater resources, we can rapidly deploy secure cloud instances with sufficient power for any task.

If you have a particularly interesting case and no money, send us an email at info@mid-atlantic.science.