Digital Forensics: articles and guides

A plain-English explainer on mobile device forensics: what it is, when it is used in incident response and legal matters, the acquisition types (logical, file-system and physical), chain of custody, the challenges posed by encryption and cloud data, and the category of tools involved — written defensively, without vendor claims.

Federal prosecutors arrested Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Reiber and Russian national Oleg Davydov, alleging the Virginia-based digital-forensics vendor concealed Russian ownership and Russian-developed software while selling to the Secret Service, HSI, DHS OIG and other agencies. What the complaint alleges, what it explicitly does not, and what it means for vendor-risk programs everywhere.