Assembly Code Assembly language is the lowest level of code and is specific to the processor architecture that it has been written for as well as the BIOS and device drivers and forms a bridge between software and the hardware. Assembly language provides the hardware with instructions to handle operation requests from the operating system […]
Android Artifacts
Where possible a full file system or physical extraction of the device being examined should be taken, this ensures that all potentially relevant data is retrieved from the device as per 2.2.5 of the ACPO Guidelines for Computer Based Evidence, where it states: 2.2.5 This may be a physical / logical block image of the […]
Police Officer – Unauthorised Phone Access
After a 5 day trial, Former Guernsey Police officer, Aaron Cusack was found guilty of intending to pervert the course of justice. During the Trial he admitted to accessing a mobile phone belonging to an alleged rape victim before it was examined by the Digital Forensic Unit. The ex-Detective had previously admitted to 3 counts […]
Cylinder-Head-Sector (CHS) Addressing Explained
What is a Hard Disk Drive? A hard drive is a 3.5″ or 2.5″ square metal box that is contained within many desktop and laptop computers. The drive contains a magnetic flat circular plate, normally made of aluminium or glass and contains a magnetic coating. This plate is used to store the data, through magnetic […]
DuckDuckGo – Alleged SHPO Breaches
DuckDuckGo is an Internet search engine that, similarly to Google or Bing, enables a user to input a search term and identify websites that relate to it. DuckDuckGo claims to differ from most mainstream search engines by not tracking the user activity or websites visited as a result of those searches. DuckDuckGo also claims that […]
