Digital Life & Security
Complicated Passwords Make You Less Safe, Experts Now Say
Government experts are now recommending longer but easier to remember passcodes over complex ones using symbols and mixed capitals.
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Cell Phone Forensics
Eric Adams’ Phone Passcode Change Could Thwart Investigators (For Now)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams recent smartphone passcode change only delays the inevitable. Cell phone forensic technology advances while his phone is in stasis.
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Eric Adams’ Seized Devices-Only Source Of Specific Electronic Evidence
The New York City mayor's devices have been seized because they contain data that does exist anywhere else. Physical device access means experts can recover deleted data.
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Surfacing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Video Evidence Unlikely To Be Fake
Video forensics expert explains why old video evidence would be hard to fake in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs case because of analog and early digital formats.
Cell Phone Forensics
How Digital Forensics Experts Read Your Encrypted WhatsApp Messages
WhatsApp encryption protects your messages from hackers, but not from digital forensics experts using modern cell phone forensics technology.
Cell Phone Forensics
Location Services Off? You Can Still Be Tracked
When you turn off location services on your phone you are disabling precise location data, but you're still creating location data that can be used as evidence.
Cell Phone Forensics
Cracking Smartphone Passcodes In The Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Case
How law enforcement can gain access to passcode locked smartphones in the Sean 'Diddy' Combs case using advanced mobile device forensic technology.
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Introduction to Digital Forensics: Decoding Digital Evidence
Title: Decoding Digital Evidence: An Introduction to Digital Forensics for Legal ProfessionalsDescription:In our increasingly digital world, the field of digital forensics has become essential in both civil and criminal cases involving digital…
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Live on NewsNation: I Prove Karen Reid Photos and Video Were Manipulated
Friday night, live on NewsNation, I proved #KarenReid videos/photos were manipulated… This is an example of #Shallowfakes. A “shallowfake” refers to a type of manipulated media, typically a video or audio recording, that has been altered using…
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Wrongly Accused: Faked Audio Evidence
Your eyes can see manipulated audio even if your ears cannot hear it...Learn how I used spectrogram analysis to uncover manipulation in a recorded conversation. I will also explain how I translated the technical #audioforensics concepts into plain…
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Digital Forensics Case Files: Manipulated Audio
Your eyes can see manipulated audio even if your ears cannot hear it...Learn how I used spectrogram analysis to uncover manipulation in a recorded conversation. I will also explain how I translated the technical #audioforensics concepts into plain…
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Insurance Fraud: Making Fake Photos with AI
In this video, I make a deepfake "pre-loss" condition photo using #adobe #photoshop and their #generativeai technology.The insurance industry has seen a dramatic rise of fraudulent insurance claims based upon #shallowfake and #deepfake photos. These…
