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A community for those just beginning to learn digital forensics and cybersecurity through hands-on investigations and real-world cybercrime scenarios.

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Geofencing warrant
Years ago, when I was a Digital Forensic Analyst, I was exploring options in a case where I was trying to pinpoint certain people in certain locations. Unfortunately, cell towers were limited in these sticks and I had limited info to process. Then.. A Marshal walked by and asked what I was working on. I explained, and he came back with the geofencing request idea. It was the first time I had heard of this and I was not so surprised in finding out that certain services could pinpoint you based on answering the question, "Which accounts using your service were located between these coordinates 'xxxxxx, xxxxxx' between the hours ox Xam and Xpm on THIS date." < very loose verbiage here. Wow. I shouldn't be so surprised, right? The ongoing collection of personal data is neverending. How could this NOT be a search, is my question. So now, do you think we cover the area of collecting "tower dumps"? Wouldn't this be very close to a geofence? Read the new ruling on this here: Court rules that law enforcement’s use of “geofence warrant” was a “search” | SCOTUSblog https://share.google/Lwu0k19PRCIM9iZJI What says you all?
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Well stated. A backwards search of sorts - So a search warrant allowing data collection of a mass of unknown persons. How can this be implemented? It really can't if the law is to list a targeted person by name to gain a search warrant on their data. First collect a large data dump. Second narrow to the targeted.
Free Tools
Did you know that you can join SANS for free and gain access to free tools? You can. I did, am pleasantly surprised and will likely use some of these in my current position at work. Check this out -see pic. I think it's time to start doing some Free Tool Tuesdays with some of these. Planning on trying the Android triage tool 1st. Likely this is (havent downloaded and tested yet..) a tool to create an Android backup via adb (android debug bridge) and will require that you know the passcode to do so. What I am wondering is if there is a feature that will parse in some way, even if a rudimentary file system-type menu. Pop quiz - if this is a tool to use adb to create a backup, what will you have to do to the phone to allow the connection?
Free Tools
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https://www.sans.org/tools
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I asked my 120k followers on tiktok, but no one has cracked this password yet. Everyone, please have a look at the Capture the Flag challenge. Can you crack a password? Give it a shot! If you are the first to win this, I will grant you VIP access. Level up! Can you do it?
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Digital forensics and cybersecurity educator, training specialist, and subject matter expert inspiring future cyber investigators.

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