I am in the digital forensics business. That means that when something related to eMail or computer evidence is in the news, my friends and family ask me questions, like: “are Tom Brady’s destroyed “DeflateGate” text messages recoverable?”, and “could you recover...
State of Vermont Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and CRA Selects Team Consisting of Experts from 4Discovery and CES In today’s world, the critical evidence required to investigate criminal or terrorist activity is increasingly found on laptops, tablets,...
Smart Phones: A New Holy Grail of Digital Evidence for Litigators? Using a series of short case studies, 4Discovery’s Jeffrey L. Hartman illustrates how specialized forensics are bringing new evidence to life in modern litigation as the amount of...
Jury returns guilty verdict for “front-running” Anthony Balzanto, a partner at the Chicago-based computer forensics firm, 4Discovery, provided critical testimony last week in the SEC v. Yang[1] Insider trading case, resulting in the jury returning a guilty verdict for front running and...
George Zimmerman Special Prosecutor Fires IT Chief Who Raised Discovery Concerns By Jeffrey Hartman Let’s be fair. Most IT people are competent and qualified. Some are exceptional. Our 4Discovery team has the opportunity to work with these capable folks on...
Not All Computer Forensics Experts are Created Equal. This story is almost too disturbing to repeat. So we hope you will forgive us for examining a slightly different angle. Just when we thought this horrible case was somehow behind us,...
Your E-Reader may be called as an “electronic witness” [1] The Background The defendant was accused of murdering his wife. He claimed it was self-defense, that his wife tried to shoot him during a heated argument and he shot her as...
No need to explain complicated patent law to jurors when the ESI is so convincing the iPhone has a “beautiful design”, and “easy to copy” hardware. – internal Samsung report [1] The Background In one of the most significant Intellectual...
Defendant’s on-line postings about his “reckless drunkenness” come back to haunt him The Background A young woman came home on May 25, 2007 and found her 2 year old daughter unconscious. A call is placed to 911, and police arrive...