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Agape Inc, one of the leading computer & mobile forensics & security technology company has joined force with another global technology service provider: RADIUS-ED to form a state of the art work force known under the brand name “AGAPE-RADIUS.”

With Agape’s expertise in mobile forensics and the extensive work field experience of Radius-ED in mobile marketing has resulted in this alliance to be one of its kind. This will provide a common platform wherein you can get the finest mobile marketing services (E.g. G1, SMS assure, IPM, etc) to generate revenue for your business globally. Putting together the cutting edge solution of bulk mobile sms’ing with added safety creates a hi-tech package that can adhere the next generation.

Bulk SMS marketing has attained lot of importance as it enables companies to directly reach to their customers. But this involves making the use of technology and with technology comes the need of security. This is where Agape Inc makes its presence felt by providing technical expertise for keeping the complete process highly secure. Through this new venture Agape-Radius has developed a dynamic & interactive marketing strategy by targeting the fundamental upbringing and thinking beyond imagination to create a relationship with value for its privileged customers. Thus, Agape Radius-ED network of direct operator connections delivers messages from mobile business applications to mobile subscribers worldwide.

For more information on our solutions and various mobile marketing plans, visit Agape-Radius website.

Paraben Corporation, the industry leader in handheld and mobile forensics, had launched  their mobile forensic certification program – PCME. Paraben’s Certified Mobile Examiner is the premier industry certification for mobile forensic examiners. Digital forensic examiners are faced with more and more types of digital evidence. The need for specialized mobile forensic examiners has created a need for certification. The certification requirements are stringent and solid which will make sure that the best examiners are only awarded the certification, thereby helping the forensic community. Thus, PCME is must for you as not only will it test your skills in handling the latest technologies, but it will also help in giving you a strong foothold in the forensic industry.

Paraben has based its training on a slightly different approach than other companies with a comprehensive 360° system that covers not only how to use technology but how the underlying device technology works. Having the company do a certification for mobile forensics was a natural progression. But Paraben has held its commitment to quality training by awarding the best certification out there. Unlike other training programs, Paraben’s PCME doesn’t focus solely on cell phones. This comprehensive approach to certification keeps in line with Paraben’s 360° approach to forensics. By covering cell phones, PDAs, hybrid devices, SIM cards, and even GPS devices and by combining both theory and device knowledge with practical examinations and thorough testing, Paraben’s certified examiners will be prepared for whatever the world of handheld forensics throws at them.

Details about how to become PCME certified can be found at Paraben’s training website at: http://www.paraben-training.com/pcme.html

The date was 26 October 2008 and the time was 19:00 hrs. Whats that? Well that was the time when we launched the Beta version of our or should i say India’s first and best Mobile phone recovery tool. Its called as AgapeMobiTool. AgapeMobiTool is forensically valid software for acquiring & decoding data stored in Mobile phone & SIM. It maintains chain of events to find information from a device for investigation purposes.

Individuals who are interested in testing the demo version are FREE to download it from the link given below.

Download Link: AgapeMobiTool Beta version

Currently the demo version is a 7 day trial version which can be used for a maximum of 5 times. Here are some quick features of AgapeMobiTool:

1. Acquisition of data from 2G and 3G GSM/CDMA SIM cards including text messages, phonebook, and call logs.
2. Recovers deleted data from GSM/CDMA SIM cards.
3. Supports with Infrared, Bluetooth & Serial Cables.
4. Acquisition of data from mobile phone memory including pictures, videos, audios, themes.
5. Text, Hex & ASCII data viewing options available.
6. Generates report using XML style sheet.
7. Data acquisition rate for SIM is about 4kbps.

Soon, AgapeMobiTool will be released in Enterprise, Professional & Standard edition with a forensic kit that will be consisting of all the components that are required for the investigation process.

At a recent Techno-Security conference, over 1500 law enforcement and security professionals were briefed on the latest cyber-security vulnerabilities. Many issues and their solutions were discussed. One such issue was recovering the data from a mobile phone in a short period of time. This is when the CSI Stick from Paraben caught the attention of many because it can grab all data from a cell phone very quickly.

The Cellular Seizure Investigation Stick or CSI Stick captures all the data from a cell phone, even deleted data that has not be overwritten. This device was primarily aimed for Law Enforcement and Security Professionals but now, it can be purchased by anyone. The CSI Stick is about the size of a BIC lighter and its tip is color coded to work with certain model cell phones. By plugging the CSI Stick into the data port of a cell phone, it can quickly download all e-mails, instant messages, dialed numbers, phone books and everything else stored in the memory.

Paraben calls it “The Portable Cell Phone Forensic and Data Gathering Tool” and has priced the CSI Stick at $200. It requires their proprietary Device Seizure or DS Lite software installed on your computer which deciphers the encrypted data and presents it on your computer in a readable format.

We are the authorized distributors for Paraben products. For ordering the CSI stick, contact us at: info [at] agapeinc.in

Cellebrite - the industry leader in mobile phone content transfer and backup solutions, recently announced native support for iPhone. The universally popular iPhone will now be compatible with Cellebrite’s UME-36 synchronization device. Native iPhone support represents user interface breakthrough, allowing users to transfer customer’s phonebook, from phone to phone, over a direct cabled connection, without requiring a PC or additional software.

The portable, stand-alone UME-36 device connects directly to an iPhone using a USB cable, requiring no PC for use, and supports more than 1500 past and current cellular phones. Over 50,000 Cellebrite UME-36 devices are currently used exclusively by all major carriers in the world including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, Nokia, Vodafone, T-Mobile, US Cellular and more.

This new feature will definitely help forensic investigators to fasten their process and provide effiicent results, specially for the newly released iPhone.

Recently, Jonathan Zdziarski presented an O’Reilly webcast iPhone Forensics: Bypassing the iPhone passcode which demonstrated steps that can be used by law enforcement to bypass the iPhone 3G’s passcode lock by creating a custom firmware bundle. During the webcast Zdziarski explained how the iPhone keeps a snapshot image of your most recent action. He also stated that it could take as little as 60 seconds to break the iPhone’s security. Some of the other methods include taking data from the iPhone’s keyboard cache, Safari cache, Google Maps lookups and so on. Experts and hackers can also recover deleted photos or e-mails from months ago.”

Zdziarski has been a longtime mobile hacker who has played a key role in opening the iPhone’s environment. He has written books on iPhone development and forensics for O’Reilly. He would be organising a 2 day forensic workshop from tomorrow.

Considering these loopholes in iPhone, no one would like to spend on a device that does not promise robust security. Not that everyone has got anything to hide, but there are some things that everyone wants to remain private - always.

A new Pocket PC surveillance tool has come up that is designed to fetch detailed mobile phone information, thereby making the task of the mobile forensic investigators-easy. The tool can fetch OS registry information, database records, files information along with other phone information like contact numbers SMS, IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number, IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) number, battery status, signal quality, mobile model number and more with the facility of restoring the recovered data on the laptop or desktop system.

Windows mobile software is specifically useful for forensic investigators to examine and extract all relevant information of Windows based cell phone devices including pocket PC, PDA, hand held PC device, palm device, smart phones, palm OS platform device of all major brands like Nokia, Hitachi, HP iPAQ, Motorola, Samsung, i-mate JasJar, Siemens, etc.

Paraben Corporation - a leader in computer forensic software, is conducting the first annual PFIC conference in Park City, Utah on November 9-12, 2008. Paraben’s Forensic Innovations Conference(PFIC 2008) will be providing training, lectures and workshops for FREE! That’s right, Paraben has generously waived their registration fees ($995) to allow people understand the new techniques and tools in forensics.

Also there would be a CSI stick bootcamp, which will teach the operations of the new CSI stick - which is a Compact Mobile Phone Forensic Solution. The fee for attending this workshop is $399. And yes, the new CSI stick will also be provided to the participants of this workshop. There would be more sessions on different topics of forensics but the one featured session you won’t want to miss is P2 Commander 101.

Attend this conference to know the new techniques and tools to improve your forensic investigation results.

Agape Inc, pioneers in the field of Cyber Forensics, Cyber Law, Storage Solutions, Digital & Mobile Forensics and Biometrics, recently joined hands with Cellebrite - leading solutions providers in Mobile phone and content transfer. Their software applications are the world’s number one solutions for mobile phones, smart phones and PDA’s, and the choice of major carriers across the globe.

Agape will now be housing more variety of mobile forensic solutions; specially Cellebrite’s popular products like UME-36Pro (Universal Memory Exchanger) and UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device). Agape is the only information security company in India to house Cellebrite’s products.

So far, this is Agape’s 2nd alliance with a renowned forensic solutions company in this month. It is worth noting that a week ago, Agape Inc had formed an alliance with SalvationDATA, the leading data recovery service provider.

Cell Phone Virus? Is it really possible? Yes, it is. Think of your cell phone in the same terms as you think of your computer. If your cell phone has the Internet on it and can browse the web and open email attachments and sync with your Outlook and on and on, a virus can attack your phone any time. As more consumers are migrating towards using the iphones and PDA’s, which are armed with latest technologies, the security poses a big question.

There was a chaos in 2004 when Cabir (first cell phone virus) infected many phones around the world. Currently, there are three infection vectors used by mobile malware to infect phones. They are: Bluetooth, MMS messages and MultiMediaCard (MMC). So how does one avoid their mobile phones from getting infected?
Here are some suggestions -

1. The easiest way to prevent your mobile from getting infected is by rejecting any messages that come from unknown sources.
2. The other way (which can be used for infected phones) is using a strong Anti-virus solution. There are many proprietary products such as Avira AntiVir Mobile, F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Mobile Security.
3. If all these options fail to protect your mobile, its time to call an expert.

So, beware of the malicious messages and executables that you receive as they are licensed to infect.