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consider though that in most countries, the #Police can already get a lot of verifiable data from a #vehicle they have already stopped in the street or seized and taken to their garage for #forensic investigation - even if its registration mark is false, its unlikely its #VIN would have been altered throughout (including where it is stored in #ECU and other electronic modules) - and RPU (Roads Policing Unit) officers tend to be car enthusiasts anyway - so a service like this would only be useful for pre-emptive surveillance (such as monitoring vehicles at a car meet or other such gathering from a distance)

Researchers confirm two #journalists were #hacked with #Paragon #spyware | TechCrunch

published a new report detailing the results of a new #forensic investigation into the #iPhones of Italian #journalist #CiroPellegrino and an unnamed “prominent” European journalist. The researchers said both journalists were hacked by the same Paragon customer, based on evidence found on the two journalists’ devices.
#privacy #surveillance #security

techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/rese

TechCrunch · Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware | TechCrunchThe confirmation of two hacked victims further deepens an ongoing spyware scandal that, for now, appears largely focused on the Italian government.

At least 206 Ukrainian soldiers died in Russian captivity amid brutal treatment

There have been multiple reports of #Ukrainian #POWs being tortured or #killed while in #Russian #captivity

As of May criminal investigations were underway regarding #execution of 268 Ukrainian POWs

AP reported, citing previous reports of #forensic expert who conducted the #autopsies of the POWs.

kyivindependent.com/over-200-u

The Kyiv Independent · At least 206 Ukrainian soldiers died in Russian captivity, AP reportsBy Kateryna Hodunova

"New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.

The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant — what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money — but for now he’s an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted.

'Picks And Shovels' is a high-tech crime thriller about the “weird era of PCs” in the early 1980s, when Reaganomics, the tech industry, multilevel marketing, and the AIDS crisis all converged in San Francisco. "—Jacobin

"Picks And Shovels" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic, with Yanis Varoufakis @VaroufakisDE & David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com >

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Those #forensic #digital #records are important for record-keeping requirements & allow for troubleshooting, but they also allow experts to investigate potential breaches, sometimes even tracing the attacker's path back to the vulnerability that let them inside a network. The records can also help experts see what #data might have been removed. Basic logs would likely not be enough to demonstrate the extent of a bad actor's activities, but it would be a start.

#law#Trump#Musk

A 220-year-old mystery surrounding the remains of infamous German outlaw Johannes Bückler, known as #Schinderhannes, has at last been solved. An international research team used cutting-edge #forensic techniques to confirm that a skeleton long thought to be that of another criminal, “Schwarzer Jonas” (Black Jonas), is in fact Schinderhannes. The true destiny of Schwarzer Jonas’ remains remains a secret.

archaeologymag.com/2025/03/inf #science #history #FamilyHistory #Hunsrück #genome

Archaeology News Online Magazine · Infamous robber Schinderhannes identified after 220-year-old skeleton mix-upBy Dario Radley

Our #image #analysis #pipeline is ready to go into #pruduction.

It combines #AI and #forensic techniques to assess authenticity. It first extracts EXIF/XMP #metadata to detect real camera data forcing a “photograph” classification if present. Then, a CLIP based preprocessor (#computervision) classifies images into categories: photograph, meme, infographic, comic/cartoons, or text only.

Custom configurations (#development) adjust weights so that, for example, memes/text only images discount AI model influence while forensic tests (ELA, FFT, noise, edge sharpness, text detection) (#science, #math) quantify artifacts. #C2PA data is also considered. All evidence is combined to yield a final decision which will be the “confidence percentage” data that will be included in every post moving forward.

#ThankYou to everyone who cast a #vote

#tech 🚀 #mastodon 🐘 #community 🤝

#image, #memes, #photos

Signs of torture found on most bodies of #Ukrainians repatriated from #Russian #captivity

Head of #Forensic Medical Examination of #Corpses Department: "80% of the bodies brought back to us from [Russian] pre-trial detention centres, prisons and so on, show signs of #torture"

pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/03

Ukrainska Pravda · Signs of torture found on most bodies of Ukrainians repatriated from Russian captivity – photo, videoBy VALENTYNA ROMANENKO

Super happy to see the open source sysdiagnose joining the hackathon.lu held in Luxembourg on April 8th and 9th, 2025.

sysdiagnose is an open-source framework developed to facilitate the analysis of the Apple sysdiagnose files and especially the one generated on mobile devices (iOS / iPadOS). In the light of targeted attacks against journalists, activist, representatives from the civil society and politicians, it empowered incident response team to review device behaviour and ensure their integrity. This tool is initially the result of a joint effort between EC DIGIT CSOC (European Commission DG DIGIT) and CERT-EU (cert.europa.eu/).

hackathon.lu/projects/#sysdiag

Don't hesitate to register and add your project!

#opensource #dfir #forensic #hackathon #luxembourg

Thanks to @ddu and the team to join us.

cert.europa.euCERT-EUCERT-EU

A Chicago judge just erased her predecessor's historic ruling on forensic firearms analysis

The courts continue to think that legitimacy comes not from correcting their mistakes, but insisting that they never make them

open.substack.com/pub/radleyba

@radleybalko #forensic #firearms #analysis

The Watch · A Chicago judge just erased her predecessor's historic ruling on forensic firearms analysisBy Radley Balko

The term “#forensic #linguistics” was likely coined in the 1960s by Jan Svartvik,
a Swedish linguist who re-examined the controversial case of Timothy John Evans,
a Welshman who was wrongfully accused of murdering his wife and daughter and was convicted and hanged in 1950.
Svartvik found that it was unlikely that Evans, who was illiterate, had written the most damning parts of his confession,
which had been transcribed by police and likely tampered with.
The real murderer was the Evans’ downstairs neighbor, who turned out to be a serial killer.

A forensic linguist has much in common with Sherlock Homes in “A Scandal in Bohemia.”:
“The man who wrote the note is a German. Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence?” the detective asks in the 1891 short story. “A Frenchman or a Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs.”

thedial.world/articles/news/is

The DialCan a Comma Solve a Crime? — The DialHow forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases.