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 -
The easiest way to prevent your mobile from getting infected is by rejecting any messages that come from unknown sources.
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.
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.
We have been providing an array of services to our clients over the past years. From data recovery to vulnerability testing, from forensic investigation to support for proprietary products; we have been doing it all. Through this we have gained valuable experience and expertise in various projects. Also this has resulted in providing more services which are complex in nature and require expertise.
Mentioned below are the services that we currently provide.
Here are this week’s links to some special topics on forensics and related topics.
1. An essential guide to computer data recovery for IT professionals. Read more
2. A unique presentation highlighting the importance of Mobile Forensics. Read more
3. A real life example, wherein an anonymous hacker posted details of millions of residents online - just to highlight the data protection problems in Chile. Read more
Apple’s iPhone is quickly becoming the world’s #1 mobile device, being increasingly used in business, personal activities, and ofcourse crime. To educate professionals on how to recover data from the iPhone - O’Reilly is hosting a Forensics workshop in Boston.
The speaker at the workshop will be Jonathan Zdziarski, original iPhone hacker and author of iPhone Forensics. This two-day workshop will guide you, hands on, through forensic examination of an iPhone and iPhone 3G. It will teach methods for recovering evidence, personal data and corporate assets from the iPhone.
The workshop will attract many security experts and law enforcement officials interested in recovering information from the iPhone. Also, students will learn about what kinds of evidence are stored on the devices and how to do prepare for a forensics investigation.
With the annual rate of cyber crimes increasing at 100 percent, the cyber cell of Delhi Police made a great effort in training 100 officials.
The officials had undergone a six-weeks training programme at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. They were given training in hardware and software, computer networks, cyber crime, digital fraud, incident response systems, computer forensics fundamentals, cyber law, e-mail crime, cyber forensics, credit card frauds and e-mail tracing. The training program concluded recently and the first batch of 100 investigating officers of Delhi Police and 2 officers of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) were handed certificates in ‘Cyber Crime Investigation and Computer Forensics’ yesterday.
With terrorists and criminals, increasingly using computers to accomplish terrorists attacks, threats and scams, the need for police officers who can investigate cyber crimes has risen manifold. This was a great effort undertaken by the Delhi Police to train its officials to fight against the increasing white collar crimes.
Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal said that 100 more officers would undergo similar training soon.
A new software tool: JDAFTS has been launched in the demo version for forensic professionals. JDAFTS, which stands for Jones Dykstra & Associates Forensic Tool Suite, includes case data management applications that extend beyond the capabilities of currently-available forensic software applications. The tool is designed for computer forensics, corporate, government, and law enforcement investigators as well as universities.
It is easy to use and allows forensics professionals to import, analyze, compare, and export electronic activity logs from sources including web browser activities, Windows Recycle Bins, and software packages like EnCase and Forensic Toolkit (FTK).
JDAFTS features include:
• Comprehensive Data Timeline
• Quick Reports
Thus, JDAFTS benefits Electronic Forensics Professionals in Legal, Corporate, Consulting, Government, Law Enforcement and Academic Fields.
We had mentioned a few days ago that our product AgapeMobiTool is under testing process. Today we completed the final phase of the testing process and will be releasing its version 1.0 soon.
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.
GENERAL FEATURES:
1. Acquisition of data from 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.
INVESTIGATOR FRIENDLY FEATURES:
1. Data integrity reserved by MD5 & SHA1.
2. Secure acquisition through wireless media.
3. Available with complete hardware kit.
AgapeMobiTool will be available in three different editions.
1. Enterprise Edition
2. Professional Edition
3. Standard Edition
We at Agape have been developing a unique data recovery software for mobile phones and other hand held devices. The special recovery tool can extract information from a mobile phone and thus help in forensic investigation.
This software is being developed in Microsoft .Net technology. Our development team has been working very hard for this unique software since the last 6 months. This software is currently under testing process and will be launched in the Beta version soon.
Its a great moment for us to announce the launch of our Mobile Forensic Lab.
We are the first ones to implement the concept of mobile cyber forensic lab which is available 24 * 7 for assistance in a cyber forensic scene. Also with this launch, it becomes India’s first cyber & mobile forensic lab on wheels. It has all the necessary tools and softwares which can help in investigating a case at the crime site.
