Why Would I want to Write Protect USB Devices? A private computer that is shared by others or a company computer can contain personal, confidential or commercially sensitive information. Such information can easily be copied from the computer if the user connects a USB data stick or hard drive to it. To prevent this, a […]

The cases that we are involved often include the examination of mobile phones that have been factory reset before they were seized or handed over for review and the device may contain no or limited user data. Rather than stopping the examination as soon as it becomes apparent that the phone was reset and contains […]

We have recently encountered issues and concerns as to whether the disclosure of data is possible under GDPR, notably from the CPS. As part of an investigation of the evidence, it is often necessary for a copy of the data extracted from a device by Police to be disclosed. This data required is normally from […]

Spotlight Indexing If a USB memory stick or hard drive is plugged into an Apple computer running OSX then it is likely that the system will have automatically created a folder called Spotlight-V100. By default, the folder also exists on the system drive itself. The Spotlight-V100 folder contains reates an index of all files and […]

What is a Firewall? A Firewall is used to protect unauthorised access to a computer or a computer network. The firewall does this by sitting between the external network (e.g. the Internet) and the internal network or computer that it is protecting by filtering the packets sent to or from a network. Open System Interconnect […]