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Cellebrite?s UFED, a Must for Forensic Investigators!

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The digitalization has transformed the criminal enterprise to a high tech, stealthy, global organization. Identity theft, money laundering, fraud, theft of intellectual property, etc., are a few to add in a long list of crimes happening in web 2.0. Imagine if your friend is charged with money laundering which he/she is not committed. What if you could show electronic evidence that proves his/her innocence! Sounds interesting? Cellebrite’s UFED, a mobile forensic devise, gives investigators all the tools necessary to do job efficiently, with a full complement of accessories, cables, card readers and much more, plus powerful analyzing, extraction & reporting software that can be run from any PC.

With a rapid change in technology and advanced mobile devices, BlackBerrys, Androids, iPhones are some of the smart phone we use on daily basis to take photographs,send texts and emails, update Facebook, consult maps, search the web, and the list goes on. As we do this, however, our mobile devices often are quietly making records and generating evidence of all these activities. For better or for worse, this makes mobile devices perhaps the richest source of evidence about the people that use them.

However, one of the major issues is that, because the mobile device industry is still at nascent stage, a multitude of different operating systems, communications protocols, and data storage methods are in use, and more are being developed every day such as Apple?s iOS, Google?s Android, BlackBerry OS, Microsoft?s Windows Mobile, HP?s webOS, Nokia?s Symbian OS, and many others. What is the best solution then? Cellebrite’s UFED!

Why Cellebrite’s UFED?

A few exceptional and analyzing capabilities of the Cellebrite UFED standalone mobile forensic device:

• Portable, fast and easy to operate, facilitates a truly untethered operation even in the most remote locations.
• Performs physical, logical, user password and file system extractions.
• IOS physical extraction, decoding & real-time decryption.
• Gives access to internal application data.
• Data extraction of hidden, existing and deleted data.
• Android & GPS devices extraction and decoding.
• Blackberry decoding.
• Phone internal data including IMSI history, past SIM cards used, past user lock code history

In short, Cellebrite’s UFED is designed specifically for forensic investigators. Its best used for retrieving data ( deleted and non-deleted) from mobile phones, as the UFED forensic system empowers law enforcement, computer crime and investigations to capture critical forensic data and much more. The best part is it covers all major mobile OS: IOS, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Palm.

Full post as published by Electronic Data Discovery on April 19, 2012 (boomark / email).