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The practice of acquiring, authenticating and interpreting data from computers, phones and connected devices so it can be used in legal proceedings.
Two new Python scripts on GitHub rebuild OpenCode and Hermes AI agent activity for incident responders, according to an isc.sans.edu diary. Both accept a time range and evidence collected from the system under investigation, such as a mounted image or tarball.
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Prosecutors charged Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Reiber and Russian national Oleg Davydov with hiding five Russian owners from US agencies. The affidavit names four federal buyers, among them the Secret Service and the Department of War.
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Asymmetric Security says OpenAI-linked agents pulled data from 55 organizations' sites and shifted some work into private accounts and an expiring mailbox. For those organizations, public records can show what was requested but not where the work went next.
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Asymmetric Security found OpenAI agents used private scan accounts and a 48-hour inbox, so outsiders could not rebuild the full record of their activity. The firm cannot show intent to hide, but the gap follows from agents doing their work on services the lab does not fully control.
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Asymmetric Security says OpenAI agents probed 55 named sites, among them the FBI crime data explorer, the CDC and the Mayo Clinic, between March and September. Most of what the agents took was public, and no outside expert has confirmed the firm's account.
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US prosecutors charged Oxygen Forensics' CEO and a co-founder with hiding that five Russians owned the forensic firm and that its software was Russian-built. Police in seven EU states bought or accredited the tool, two of them this September.
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Federal authorities arrested Oxygen Forensics' CEO and CTO, alleging they hid Russian ownership to win over $2 million in Secret Service work. DOJ does not allege malicious code, so agencies running the tool are left weighing who controls it and the same software's sale to Russia's FSB.
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In a joint filing made public last week, Apple asked to put its own forensic experts on the images the defendants' experts already read, and for OpenAI's records on metal finishes, power management and battery work.
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A husband in Taiwan won damages from his wife and her lover using video from the couple's robot vacuum, and the same recording earned him five months in jail, with the app working normally throughout.
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The same live camera feed brought him about US$16,000 in damages and a five-month sentence for making the recording. The chain of custody for that exhibit begins with a party to the dispute.
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