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November 27, 2020 / Last updated : November 27, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

TNW: How to build a search engine for criminal data

TNW: How to build a search engine for criminal data. “Data analysis platforms are becoming increasingly crucial in the fight against crime. We spoke with two forensic software experts from Hansken about how they support law enforcement agencies, like the Dutch National Police and the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service.”

November 23, 2020 / Last updated : November 23, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Gizmodo: Forensics Experts Used Social Media to Reconstruct Exact Cause of the Tragic Beirut Explosion

Gizmodo: Forensics Experts Used Social Media to Reconstruct Exact Cause of the Tragic Beirut Explosion. “One of the most awful elements of the devastating August 4 explosion in Beirut, which killed over 200 people and injured more than 6,500, was that it could have easily been prevented. Using videos of the event that were shared […]

June 18, 2020 / Last updated : June 18, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Philadelphia Inquirer: The FBI used a Philly protester’s Etsy profile, LinkedIn, and other internet history to charge her with setting police cars ablaze

Philadelphia Inquirer: The FBI used a Philly protester’s Etsy profile, LinkedIn, and other internet history to charge her with setting police cars ablaze. “More than two weeks after that climactic May 30 moment, federal authorities say they’ve identified the arsonist as 33-year-old Philadelphia massage therapist Lore Elisabeth Blumenthal by following the intricate trail of bread […]

March 12, 2020 / Last updated : March 12, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Motherboard: We Built a Database of Over 500 iPhones Cops Have Tried to Unlock

Motherboard: We Built a Database of Over 500 iPhones Cops Have Tried to Unlock. “One of the top level findings of Motherboard’s dataset is that many law enforcement agencies and officials can not reliably access data stored on iPhones. Whether that’s due to a device having too strong a passcode, the phone being damaged, an […]

January 21, 2020 / Last updated : January 21, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

EurekAlert: New research uses physiological cues to distinguish computer-generated faces from human ones

EurekAlert: New research uses physiological cues to distinguish computer-generated faces from human ones. “‘Digital human face detection in video sequences via a physiological signal analysis,’ a paper published today in the Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI), presents a viable, innovative way to discern between natural humans (NAT) and CG faces within the context of multimedia […]

December 26, 2019 / Last updated : December 26, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Trib Live: CMU researchers develop tool to pinpoint source of gunshots using smartphone videos

Trib Live: CMU researchers develop tool to pinpoint source of gunshots using smartphone videos. “A tool developed at Carnegie Mellon University to determine the location of gunshots correctly pinpointed where the shots came from in the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, CMU researchers said.”

December 23, 2019 / Last updated : December 23, 2019 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Mashable: Company says it can extract email addresses and passwords from locked iPhones

Mashable: Company says it can extract email addresses and passwords from locked iPhones. “A Russia-based cybersecurity company said it found a new way into your locked iPhone. Elcomsoft, which creates digital forensic software for governments and law enforcement agencies, said on Friday that its iOS Forensic Toolkit can now extract some data from locked iPhones […]

December 15, 2019 / Last updated : December 15, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Phys .org: Here’s what police know about digital evidence

Phys .org: Here’s what police know about digital evidence. “In today’s criminal justice system, a Play Station and iPhone are just as important pieces of evidence as eyewitness accounts. Yet, there isn’t a strong understanding as to how police officers identify digital evidence—everything from a laptop to a smart television—in the field.”

November 26, 2019 / Last updated : November 26, 2019 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

New York Times: Imagine Being on Trial. With Exonerating Evidence Trapped on Your Phone.

The New York Times: Imagine Being on Trial. With Exonerating Evidence Trapped on Your Phone.. “In America, citizens accused of crimes are supposed to have an advantage. The burden of proof is on prosecutors, and the government must turn over all its evidence to defendants, who have no reciprocal obligation. In practice, of course — […]

October 17, 2019 / Last updated : October 17, 2019 ResearchBuzz Useful Stuff

IFL Science: Twitter Thread On How To Delete Yourself From The Internet Goes Viral

IFL Science: Twitter Thread On How To Delete Yourself From The Internet Goes Viral. “Whether you’re a spy, someone worried about data privacy and security, or just a regular person with a backlog of terrible memes, it may have crossed your mind that you might one day want to delete every last trace of yourself […]

May 31, 2019 / Last updated : May 31, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Speech2Face: A neural network that “imagines” faces from hearing voices. Is it too soon to worry about ethnic profiling? (Packt)

Packt: Speech2Face: A neural network that “imagines” faces from hearing voices. Is it too soon to worry about ethnic profiling?. “The researchers designed and trained a neural network which uses millions of natural Internet/YouTube videos of people speaking. During training, they demonstrated that the model learns voice-face correlations that allows it to produce images that […]

May 11, 2019 / Last updated : May 11, 2019 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

New York Times: How Volunteer Sleuths Identified a Hiker and Her Killer After 36 Years

New York Times: How Volunteer Sleuths Identified a Hiker and Her Killer After 36 Years. “What does it actually take to identify a person through genetic genealogy? Wading through infidelities and pornography.”

March 8, 2019 / Last updated : March 8, 2019 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

EurekAlert: An all-in-one cyber toolkit for criminal investigations

EurekAlert: An all-in-one cyber toolkit for criminal investigations . “FileTSAR is available free to law enforcement. The project was funded by the National Institute of Justice. The Purdue toolkit brings together in one complete package the top open source investigative tools used by digital forensic law enforcement teams at the local, state, national and global […]

November 16, 2018 / Last updated : November 16, 2018 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Nieman Lab: How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes

Nieman Lab: How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes. “We at The Wall Street Journal are taking this threat seriously and have launched an internal deepfakes task force led by the Ethics & Standards and the Research & Development teams. This group, the WSJ Media Forensics Committee, is comprised of […]

October 3, 2018 / Last updated : October 3, 2018 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

EurekAlert: Can we trust digital forensic evidence?

EurekAlert: Can we trust digital forensic evidence? . “Digital forensics is the recovery and investigation of digital devices and digital materials, often related to serious crimes, such as terrorism and murder, but also more localised issues within the workplace such as employee misconduct and cyber bullying.New research at the University of York examining digital forensic […]

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