Friday, March 15, 2013

Retrieving Cell Phone Data



Retrieving Cell Phone Data

For those of you with a HTC, Motoral, Razr, Galaxy, Iphone or Windows phone beware. This is not an advertisement for Cellebrite but a notice that no cell phone is now safe from data extraction.

Before Cellebrite launched its HTC and Motorola user lock bypass, their forensic customers had to go to through a painstaking process to recover data from these Android devices: obtaining a search warrant to serve on Google, either to recover backup data or to obtain or reset the device user lock. In some cases, such as with a phone that was turned off, they may even have had to serve paper on the carrier as well.
              
That has recently changed. Now their customers have been able to access critical evidence which they previously could not. Deputy Steven Mueller of the Defiance County (Ohio) Sheriff’s Office and the Northwest Ohio Technology Crimes Unit, stated: “I was given a HTC PD15100 in December with a pattern lock. I was unable to acquire it then. Today with the updates it is being acquired as I write this.” 

                Therefore with upgrades by Cellebrite to their retrieval devices almost every cell phone is now open for data retrieval. For what it's worth.

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