polar

10 ms·

61.
Anti-Forensics: Reverse Engineering a Leading Phone Forensic Tool(blackhat.com)
3 points by polar 5y ago|0 comments
62.
by polar 5y ago
It costs around $10k.
63.
Magnet Forensics increases TSX IPO target, aiming to raise $100M(betakit.com)
1 points by polar 5y ago|0 comments
64.
by polar 5y ago
> That might very well put pressure on LEA to abandon Cellebrite for a vendor that makes stronger promises[1] here. Hahaha. I can't wait till HN finds out about how rubbish the other vendors are.
65.
by polar 5y ago
Cellebrite's "Physical Analyzer" can parse imported data, including disk images and chip images.
66.
How can we design inclusive and accessible curricula for computer science?(raspberrypi.org)
1 points by polar 5y ago|1 comments
67.
The search to make a perfect condom(bbc.com)
2 points by polar 5y ago|0 comments
68.
In Memoriam: John Coster-Mullen (1946-2021)(blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
1 points by polar 5y ago|0 comments
69.
Post-Colonial Bad Jokes(thecritic.co.uk)
2 points by polar 5y ago|0 comments
70.
by polar 5y ago
I am reasonably confident that Apple is a Cellebrite customer. Their security team certainly has access to forensic tools from other vendors. That team also spawned BlackBag Technologies, which is now part of Cellebrite.
71.
Forensics Software and Oracle Outside in (2013)(insights.sei.cmu.edu)
1 points by polar 5y ago|0 comments
72.
by polar 5y ago
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/forensics-software-and-ora... ?
73.
by polar 5y ago
Cellebrite acquired BlackBag Technologies recently. BlackBag emerged from Apple's security team.
74.
by polar 5y ago
Pain In The M?
75.
by polar 6y ago
> I am surprised to even hear Thomasites who are one of the socio-econmic mores facing persecution in a state where BJP has no footprint. Perhaps you are surprised because he didn't say that!
76.
by polar 6y ago
> If you demand that he allows you to post on his site, could I make demands to post on your site? Well put.
77.
by polar 6y ago
> laying around ITYM lying around, unless this is a quirk of US English. Sorry to be pedantic!
78.
by polar 6y ago
Also, this is a barrier that the EU intends to introduce for themselves as well (postponed to July 2021).
79.
by polar 6y ago
The EU intends to introduce a similar system later this year. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/modernisi...
80.
by polar 6y ago
Jonathan Zdziarski is a pioneer in the field of iOS forensics. He was hired by Apple in 2017. HN may especially appreciate the sections titled "Forensics Tools are Terrible" and "Closed Source is Not Scientific".
81.
An Example of Forensic Science at Its Worst (Jonathan Zdziarski, 2014)(zdziarski.com)
2 points by polar 6y ago|1 comments
82.
by polar 6y ago
> Poorly written, over-priced assumptionware. https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=3717
83.
by polar 6y ago
> It's their potential customers, who don't know the difference. Their potential customers (forensic examiners not just in law enforcement, but also corporate investigators, incident response etc.) do know the difference. Being
84.
by polar 6y ago
> devices seized by law enforcement Not exclusively[1]. [1] https://www.cellebrite.com/en/business-solutions/
85.
by polar 6y ago
> all these companies who are better at marketing themselves well as experts are getting free lunches Better than us, I presume? But unless you or I are prepared to do this work (to parse data from Signal and every other application out
86.
by polar 6y ago
> The types of people that use Cellebrite will never understand the nuance here. Au contraire, I would imagine a law enforcement or corporate investigator would knows the difference between encryption in transit and encryption at endpoin
87.
by polar 6y ago
> automated taking pictures of app content There's a world of difference between taking screenshots of an application and extracting messages and metadata from a database. I should imagine that Cellebrite's audience of corporat
88.
by polar 6y ago
Opening up the database reveals more metadata than would be visible in the application's user interface.
89.
by polar 6y ago
One has to bear in mind that the typical digital forensic examiner is not a programmer and would therefore be impressed. Perhaps impressed enough to purchase Cellebrite's products instead of the equivalents from MSAB, Oxygen, Elcomsoft
90.
by polar 6y ago
Indeed. It is still very useful to an investigator who has to examine an unlocked device -- in most corporate investigations this is unlikely to be an issue. Forensic examiners working for the police are likely to have more of a hard time g

More ›