Category: Technology
6 Simple Online Investigation Techniques for Private Investigators
Following article is going to cover certain basic investigative techniques such as discovering a person’s online aliases, digging deeper into leads (such as profile images), leveraging Google to uncover files and setting up a system to get real time notifications about your target’s online activity. 1) Dictionary mining This method is used by spam bots [...]
Advanced Professional Video System Designed To Be Worn or Mounted
The Digital Ally FirstVu™ is a compact, lightweight, weather resistant digital video/audio recorder and photographic camera that is designed to capture hands-free evidence anywhere the job requires. An advanced clip system allows secure locking or quick transfer between a variety of locations, such as from a shirt pocket to the windshield of a vehicle. This [...]
Buyer Beware: Using Spyware Versus Forensics to Gather Evidence from Smart Phones
As a private investigator, I’m often asked by businesses to gather information from cell phones owned by a company; you can protect your business by tracking your employee’s cell phone data. Even though I know the best method for collecting data from phones is through mobile phone forensics, one client was insistent that we use [...]
Is my Mobile Phone Bugged?
As wireless technology becomes more prevalent in our world, so does the issue of privacy. As stated by author and eavesdropping specialist Kevin Murray, “For the average person, wiretapping is no longer a remote, government concern. Nearly everyone carries instant access to phone service, and tapping has become a personal concern.” The well documented comprehensive [...]
Armada Global Unveils a Mobile Unmanned Surveillance Platform for Private Investigators
Armada Global, Inc., a Central Pennsylvania-based high-tech surveillance and security firm, has developed a tool that is changing the way companies conduct their investigations. Owned and operated by former operations officers for CIA’s National Clandestine Service, Armada Global insisted on a more covert approach to their surveillance, breaking the mold of using the stereotypical dark [...]
Private Investigators Reducing their Carbon Footprint and “Going Green”
Helping the Environment It’s hard to go one day without hearing about “Going Green” or “Reducing our Carbon Footprint” to cut costs and assist the environment. Also take into account that any industry that has strong associations with the Court systems, Lawyers and insurance companies as private investigators do, that the amount of reports, files [...]
![[Video] Maltego – A Fascinating Open Source and Network Intelligence Tool](http://pursuitmag.com/wp-content/themes/Themenew/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://pursuitmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/maltego-150x150.png&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "[Video] Maltego – A Fascinating Open Source and Network Intelligence Tool")
[Video] Maltego – A Fascinating Open Source and Network Intelligence Tool
I’ve been playing with Maltego now for just a few weeks on some very complex business intelligence projects I have going on, and I have to tell you, I am STUNNED by how much information I develop every time I have the opportunity to run new data through it! In fact, I understand that several [...]
12 Essential Smartphone Apps Worth Investigating
Smartphones have indisputably change the face of human communication. No longer are we bound by the confines of terrestrial wired audio communication. We can see exactly where we are on earth, send photos and videos to our friends and family, and most importantly we can check our Facebook messages. Smartphones have driven revolutions in Egypt [...]
