by SJDC | May 25, 2025 | Cell Phone, Digital, eDiscovery, Forensics, Mobile Device, Phone, Private Investigations, Smart Phone
As a licensed Private Investigator (PI), it’s frustrating when I’m asked by other PIs how they can preserve visible data from a client’s iPhone. For example, “one of my clients exchanged messages with a contractor who accepted payment and then failed to deliver...
by SJDC | Jan 28, 2025 | Accident, Cell Phone, Crash, Data, Deleted, Deleted, Digital, Distracted Driving, eDiscovery, Forensics, Incident Response, Mobile Device, Phone, Recover, Smart Phone, Traffic
Understanding Pattern-of-Life Data in Mobile Device Forensics In mobile device forensics, “pattern-of-life” data refers to the behaviors and activities of individuals as inferred from their mobile device usage. By analyzing this data, investigators can...
by SJDC | Jun 2, 2024 | Accident, Cell Phone, Crash, Data, Deleted, Deleted, Digital, Distracted Driving, eDiscovery, Forensics, Incident Response, Legal, Mobile Device, Phone, Privacy, Recover, Smart Phone, Traffic
The purpose of this post is to provide instructions for the capture of iOS crash logs, including sysdiagnose logs, after they’ve been created. These logs can also be highly relevant to a digital forensic analysis and thus it is important to create and capture...
by SJDC | Jun 2, 2024 | Accident, Cell Phone, Crash, Data, Deleted, Deleted, Digital, Distracted Driving, eDiscovery, Forensics, Incident Response, Mobile Device, Phone, Recover, Smart Phone, Traffic
The purpose of this post is to provide digital forensic examiners a user-friendly guide (available publicly here) for forensic analysts to trigger (capture on a iPhone/iPad) a “sysdiagnose” log of events. Capturing Android crash logs is covered in a...
by SJDC | Mar 17, 2018 | Cell Phone, Data, Deleted, Deleted, Digital, eDiscovery, Forensics, Legal, Mobile Device, Phone, Private Investigations, Recover, Smart Phone
The purpose of this page is to generate and maintain a resource for digital forensic and eDiscovery practitioners, lawyers and legal professionals, and anyone generally looking to understand and/or explain (by way of analogy) some of the technology concepts that may...
by SJDC | Apr 26, 2015 | Accident, Cell Phone, Crash, Data, Deleted, Deleted, Digital, Distracted Driving, eDiscovery, Forensics, Legal, Mobile Device, Phone, Privacy, Private Investigations, Recover, Smart Phone, Traffic
SJDC is often hired to perform digital forensic analyses of cell phones or other types of mobile devices that were present during traffic accidents. The goal of these exams is almost always to determine the possibility of distracted driving and mobile devices have...
