Digital forensics expert & expert witness · The Forbes digital forensics columnist
Senator Maggie Hassan sent letters April 16 to ElevenLabs, LOVO, Speechify and VEED demanding answers on how they stop voice-clone scams as FBI reports $893M in losses.
Comcast agreed to a $117.5 million settlement after a 2023 breach exposed 35 million Xfinity customers. Eligible class members can claim up to $10,000 by Aug. 14.
Covert real-time coaching of witnesses and is now cheap, hidden and easy. Every legal proceeding that runs on live testimony is exposed.
Generative AI has opened medical record forgery to a much wider pool of bad actors. Defense requires layers—AI, human in the loop, and digital forensics.
Berkeley's Hany Farid says humans can barely spot AI-generated content. Every court, claim file and contract that depends on human judgment needs a backup plan.
The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone in a recent federal case. Signal's encryption was not broken. Here is what actually happened, and why the data was still on the phone.In a federal terrorism case in Texas, the FBI pulled incoming Signal messages off a defendant's iPhone after
A digital forensics expert breaks down how the FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone in a federal terrorism case, why Signal's encryption was not the weak link, and the one notification setting that closes the gap.
Deepfake-as-a-service follows the ransomware playbook. For a handful of dollars anyone can commission synthetic video, cloned audio, or fabricated images to target you.
Deepfakes are already reaching U.S. courtrooms. And in the deepfake era, proving a piece of digital evidence is real often requires specialized forensic experts that public defenders rarely have the funding to bring in. That gap may become the gap between a fair trial and a wrongful conviction.
In the deepfake era, proving digital evidence is real requires experts public defenders cannot afford. Their indigent clients are the ones who will pay.
Police jailed an innocent woman for five months on a bogus AI hashtag#FacialRecognition match. In this case, the real failure is human, not machine.
