Thursday, 03-May-2012 10:05:11 UTC

XRY used in Counter Terrorism

IRA membership trial hears mobile phone evidence

The trial of a Dublin man accused of membership of the IRA has heard evidence from a garda mobile phone expert.

Sean Farrell (aged 27), of Kilfenora Road, Crumlin, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation within the State namely Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the Irish Republican Army, otherwise the IRA on July 7, 2011.

Giving evidence this afternoon before the non-jury court, Detective Garda Fiona Summers told Mr Michael Bowman BL, for the State, that she works with Europol as an analyst and is attached to the Special Detective Unit.

She agreed that she conducted a review of an XRY analysis of mobile phones taken from Mr Farrell and another man also arrested during the investigation, and extracted all communications between the two handsets such as text messages and phone calls.

The court heard earlier that an XRY examination involves the use of software to download from mobile phones and SIM cards details of all communications such as texts written and received, phone calls made, received and missed, contact phonebook details and pictures saved.

Det Gda Summers told Mr Bowman that a text message sent to Mr Farrell's phone from the other man’s phone at 10:53am on June 24, 2011 read: “Sean, did you put everything in the one bag”.

The trial heard last week that the fingerprint of the accused man was retrieved from a plastic bag used to wrap a sawn-off shotgun, which gardaí found along with two other weapons after a search of a one-bedroom flat on Bride Road in Dublin 8.

For more on this story please visit Breaking News IE >>

Monday, 23-Apr-2012 09:04:48 UTC

Robbers caught taking pictures on phones

Teenage robbers who raided garage caught after saving pictures of their loot on a mobile phone

 

Three teenage robbers put themselves in the frame by taking pictures of themselves with their loot on a mobile phone - and even using one damning photo as a screensaver.

The boys - two aged 16 and one 17 - had thought they had got away with their armed raid at a 24-hour service station after disguising themselves with hoodies and scarves and turning their coats inside out.

But a police raid on their homes found the mobile phone containing the incriminating pictures. 

Today, Det Sgt Paul Copplestone of Greater Manchester Police said: 'We had very very good circumstantial evidence as well as the phones.

'We found they had been using the phones to use taxis in that vicinity on the morning of the raid and the pictures we found of one of them with the money which was a bit of a nail in the coffin.'

The police also traced the date and time of the photos to just after the offence.

Read more: Daily Mail Story >>

Monday, 26-Mar-2012 12:03:29 UTC

No ordinary CSI: mobile phone forensics

Why should anyone care about mobile phone forensics if they have no skeletons in the closet?

"Mobile phones have become so embedded into our daily use that little thought is given to the type and amount of information we store on them," said Adam Stafford, a mobile phone forensics expert with accounting firm BDO in Western Australia.

Stafford, a former officer with the Police Computer Crime Squad in Western Australia, fondly recalled how some criminals had the odd habit of taking photographs of their prized assets.

For example, criminals nabbed for possessing weapons were found to have photographs posing with their marijuana plants on their smartphones.

For more on this story please visit The Hong Kong Standard >>

Monday, 19-Mar-2012 14:03:45 UTC

Technology means more work for police

It could take thousands of dollars and overtime hours to keep up.

US News:

As “cybercrime” becomes more and more prevalent, police will tell you it’s crucial that they don’t fall behind.

“When you talk about cybercrime, that’s pretty much anything that can be transmitted over a computer or telephone or anything else — whether it’s transferring pictures or whether it’s running a scam or maintaining evidence of a crime in a computer or cell phone,”

said Canyon County Criminal Investigations Section Lt. Marv Dashiell.

Technology is always changing, and for police, it could take thousands of dollars and overtime hours to keep up.

Drug dealers, child enticers and scammers are finding new ways to use technology to their advantage. This presents pros and cons for police.

For more information about this story and to watch a video interview with one of the officers please visit: www.idahopress.com >>

Monday, 20-Feb-2012 19:02:12 UTC

v6.2 XRY Release Coming Soon

The latest release from MSAB is due for release in the coming month

Micro Systemation has just announced that v6.2 of the XRY Forensics Pack will be due for release in the near future.

The company is now in the final testing stages before the release, which can be expected within the next 30 days at the latest.

v6.2 XRY promises to be a significant upgrade for all current users with major improvements in "Physical" extraction capabilities and a significant number of new devices supported.

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