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The forensic engineers who help police gather evidence understand this even if it's not always been clear which methods are the most effective as extracting data accurately enough for it to meet standards of evidence. To examine the issue, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology says it recently conducted tests using 10 popular Android smartphones careful loaded with a mix of data accumulated during simulated use.
Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy data. Manufacturers use those taps to test their circuit boards, but by soldering wires onto them, forensic investigators can extract data from the chips.
On Sept. 11, 2019, two security experts at a company that had been hired by the state of Iowa to test the physical and network security of its judicial system were arrested while probing the security of an Iowa county courthouse, jailed in orange jumpsuits, charged with burglary, and held on $100,000 bail. Gary DeMercurio, 43 of Seattle, and Justin Wynn, 29 of Naples, Fla., are both professional penetration testers employed by Coalfire Labs, a security firm based in Westminster, Colo. Iowa's State Court Administration had hired the company to test the security of its judicial buildings.
Google is testing out a feature to make Android's built-in password manager safer, according to online sleuths who have picked apart its software. You could use it to take autofill input from third-party password managers, or if you wanted to keep everything in your Google account, you could use autofill with Google's own password management service.
Corporate network security breaches, which can prove costly to remediate and expose a company to lawsuits, are frequently the result of vulnerabilities that could have been fixed for a relatively low cost. During the internal phase, our team's white hack attackers moved around laterally within the entire network via the external access provided by the JBoss issue.
The data breach disclosure was met with ire from customers whose lab test results, health card numbers and more were accessed.
Lab test provider LifeLabs said Tuesday that it paid a ransom to secure data for Canadians that was stolen in a data breach in late October. read more
Mastercard marked the first tests of a new digital service that has the potential to verify a person’s identity immediately, safely and securely in both the digital and the physical world. The...
The secure messaging service is looking to address usability issues.
Social engineering hacking preys on the vulnerabilities inherent in human psychology, so it’s vital for organizations to test employee cyber competence. Take the Nigerian 419 scam as an example –...