SS7 Explained The Signalling System No 7 (SS7) is a set of telephone signalling protocols that was originally developed in 1975 that are used to setup telephone calls and provides other services including number translation and SMS. The SS7 protocol is named Common Channel Interoffice Signaling 7 (CCIS7) in the UK and Common Channel Signalling […]
Images Sent via WhatsApp
What is MetaData within a Digital Photograph or Image? Image metadata is text based information that is added to a digital photograph by the device used to take or capture it, such as the make and model of the mobile phone, or the software used to edit it, such as Adobe Photoshop. The metadata within […]
The Dark Web
The Dark Web – What is it? The ‘dark web’ forms part of the deep web and is not indexed in the normal way by search engines (e.g. Google etc). ‘Deep web’ websites are not indexed as they may consist of Internet email, forums, social media accounts, legal documents, online banking etc as well as […]
Teamviewer Forensics
What is TeamViewer? TeamViewer is an application that allows the user of one computer to connect and remotely use another computer, as if they were sat at it, via the Internet. The software can be downloaded from here https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/windows/ for personal use for free, with limitations such as a connection time limit, or it can […]
Bitlocker – Computer Forensics
BitLocker is a disk encryption facility that is available since Microsoft Windows 8 that can be used to protect data held on system and removable drives connected to the computer. BitLocker is available within machines running Windows Vista Ultimate and Enterprise, Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise, Windows 8.1 Professional and Enterprise and Windows 10 Professional. […]
