Financial Post:
Ever heard of phone forensics? It’s what police do when they comb through the data in a suspect’s cellphone, extracting information such as call history, text messages, contact lists and even videos.
One of the latest phone forensic tools comes from New Jersey-based Cellebrite USA Corp. Cellebrite has made a name for itself selling devices that cellphone companies use to transfer a customer’s stored contacts from one phone to another. The company’s synchronizing boxes are used in more than 40,000 wireless stores in the United States and Canada.
Last July, the company rolled out a system that builds on its synchronization skills and provides a range of features aimed at police use. The machine, dubbed the UFED, or Universal Forensic Extraction Device, copies the various types of data stored on a cellphone or PDA on to a flash drive or SD card.
‘It’s speed and efficiency for the police,’ said Jason Rogers, Cellebrite USA’s vice-president of sales. Instead of physically transcribing a phone’s contact list, missed call history etc, the UFED gives police a portable method to dump the data before a suspect has a chance to erase it.
Mr. Rogers said the US$4,000 kit, has already been sold to more than 1,000 law enforcement agencies on federal, state and local levels. In addition, corporations are purchasing the device for use by internal IT departments for purposes such as scrutinizing an employee’s cellphone use. Read on…
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