Can courts trust evidence collected by Cellebrite s mobile device forensic tools?
The question was posed late last month by Signal, the messaging app that is a recent new target for Cellebrite s data-collecting tools for law enforcement. Signal s founder, Moxie Marlinspike, contended that software vulnerabilities found in Cellebrite s tools could be used to tamper with evidence. As a result, one lawyer has already filed a motion for a new trial. (see
But Marlinspike isn t the only person who has taken a close look at Cellebrite s devices. On Friday, Matt Bergin of KoreLogic will present his latest findings at the Black Hat Asia conference, which relate to Cellebrite s Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED).
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Signal s hack of surveillance software a big concern for courts
Questions linger about Cellebrite’s UFED software Credit: IDG
A surveillance software used by Australian police to extract messages, photos and other crucial pieces of evidence used in criminal hearings, has come into question after vulnerabilities were discovered that could be exploited to create falsified evidence.
Security concerns about a surveillance software developed by Cellebrite, were raised in a blog post last week by Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the encrypted app Signal. According to Marlinspike, he managed to hack Cellebrite’s Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), a software program used by law enforcement agencies to gather criminally important evidence from devices.
Randa Slim
Senior Fellow and Director of Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program
News from Iraq often shifts between the good and the very bad. Successes and disasters alternate in a regular news cycle, and the last few days have been no exception. On April 18, information leaked to news outlets revealed that Iraq hosted direct talks on April 9 between Iranian and Saudi delegations, primarily to discuss Yemen. On April 25, we saw the horrific pictures of the fire at the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, in which at least 82 people were killed, many of them COVID-19 patients, and hundreds wounded.
If the Iranian-Saudi meeting in Baghdad is the result of competent and smart Iraqi diplomacy, the hospital tragedy is the result of endemic corruption and a culture of impunity in a political class that has since 2003 treated the country and its resources as their spoils of war.