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HTCI Closed Friday December 23, 2012 in Observation of ChristmasThe HTCI offices will be closed on Friday December 23, 2012 in observation of the Christmas holiday. We will be re-opening for business on Monday December 26, 2012 at 0800 EST. HTCI would like to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday weekend.

 

Office Hours for Friday December 16, 2011High Tech Crime Institute will be closing at 1500 today (Friday December 16, 2011) for our annual holiday party. We will resume normal business hours on Monday December 19, 2011 at 0800.

 

HTCI Closed Monday January 2, 2012 in Observation of the New Year The HTCI offices will be closed on Monday January 2, 2012 in observation of the New Year holiday. We will be re-opening for business on Tuesday January 3, 2012. Please come back and see all the new changes for the New Year.

 

Changes at HTCISo what are the changes being made for 2012? A complete organizational restructure has occurred allowing HTCI to expand into 4 new business units. You may notice that Forensic Store is no longer here. You are correct Forensic Store has earned it's wings and has left the nest as a completely separate company. This new woman owned Forensic Store can be found at http://www.forensicstore.com. Please take some time to look around the site at our offerings. As always we look forward to serving you in the coming year.

 

Kasemanager 2 Going LiveKasemanager 2 is a cellular analytics system that has been developed to meet the shortfall in the capabilities of cell phone collection products. This tool is used to gather analytics from cell phones that have been collected by other commercial packages. Kasemanager 2 is going live today (17-Feb-2012)

 

CCL-Forensics' R&D Team Cracks Android Pattern LockCCL-Forensics R&D Team Cracks Android Pattern Lock What do you do if you have to examine an Android device which has a pattern lock enabled, but USB debugging is not initialized? Pattern locks are a secure alternative Android uses in lieu of a password or passcode. Until now, there was not a way to get past this pattern locking mechanism CCL-Forensics researchers have developed a technique whereby if a physical level acquisition can be performed, it is possible to retrieve the lock pattern from the device. To find out how this was done, you can visit their website; http://www.ccl-forensics.com/Law-Enforcement-News/a-rainbow-table-for-android-pattern-locks.html There is even a sample of the script available for download there as well.