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Spotlight is Apple’s Mac OS X content indexing and search feature. Like any other desktop search technology, it is aimed at helping the user find files and folders on the computer. Mac Spotlight indexes all the files/folders on a volume, storing indexed metadata about filesystem objects to deliver rapid and widespread searching capabilities across the […]

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As opposed to iPhone devices, Android phones are produced by a plethora of makers, brands and models, from very simple to high end devices, they share similar protection security measures when we are dealing with new devices or new Android OS versions. In fact, like iPhones, Android device content is encrypted and protected from being […]

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While the common procedure to forensically process a laptop or desktop involves an image of its data repositories (meaning the disk or disks where the information being handled by the device, including it OS, is stored), this is not the case when the device is a smartphone. Although in this post we address only iPhones, […]