Forensics

New Technique Could Help Law Enforcement Collect Smartphone Data

There have been many recent news stories involving law enforcement’s desire to access smartphone data while investigating crimes, due to the growing importance of the information that can be stored in the memory of these devices. Sometimes this information is considered just as important as evidence recovered from an ordinary crime scene.

Now a team of researchers from Purdue University is working on a new technique that could aid law enforcement in gathering this data more efficiently.

The team, led by Dongyan Xu, a computer science professor and interim executive director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, has been working on the technique, coined RetroScope, for the past nine months, as a continuation of the team's work in smart phone memory forensics.