Forensics for mobiles

In one instance in Texas after damning evidence was recovered by FTS from two mobiles which had been submerged at the bottom of a lake. In Scotland, the company helped convict camera phone killer Stephen Price, who posed for graphic pictures next to his butchered victim.

Former Strathclyde detective superintendent Willie Johnston said FTS forensically examined a staggering 26,000 phones last year.  "You will not find a major crime investigation or a serious and organised crime investigation where mobile phones do not feature. They may not feature in evidence but they will certainly feature as part of the investigation. Anything that has a memory chip in it, of any kind, can be interrogated," he is reported saying.

The company's Hex M-Filter software can recover seemingly deleted data from the BGA chip, which is built into the handset, similar to a computer hard drive. If someone deletes a text message or a picture from their phone, it is not truly gone but encrypted and on the BGA chip of the phone.

Kent-based FTS manages to recover deleted texts by  rebuilding them and uses software to retrieve call records, phone book entries and texts, some of which had been deleted. FTS technicians have also rebuilt a smashed camera phone and although  images were deleted and the phone smashed and buried the handset was rebuilt to discover incriminating photos.

FTS can also map the movements of a phone using cell site analysis with. FTS experts giving evidence during the six-week trial linking the movement of phones around Pollokshields which supported evidence  police had gathered.

Recognised as specialists within this field, FTS with several office in England, now has a lab in Canada and its services o been used in Europe, the Middle East and the US

 Source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/
Web:http://www.forensicts.co.uk