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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.

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.

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

We had launched this toll free number on 17 December 2007 to combat cyber crime and mobile offenses.

With the increase in the number of PDA’s and mobiles, related crimes in this sector have also increased. Cyber crimes such as online fraud, phishing or even threat mails have witnessed an increase in recent time. Also mobile related offenses like unsolicited calls or pornographic MMS have made many suffer. According to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT IN) hackers had attacked around 6000 websites in the last year.

But now such sufferers can call 1800 209 6789 and seek professional and individual assistance for FREE. This number currently works only in India. But we are planning to make this number accessible worldwide.

This is our endeavor in curbing cyber crimes and making the web a safer place for everyone.

Mobile device forensics have gained much importance in recent years. To keep the community informed Rick Mislan, Assistant Professor at Purdue University, College of Technology had organized a world conference. It was the first ever Mobile Forensics World Conference held in Chicago, Illinois, USA between May 8-10, this year. Many mobile forensic guru’s attended this conference to share their experience and enlighten others.

If you missed this conference, take a look at some of the presentations and the pictures of MFW08.

Make sure you attend the conference next year!