by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 6, 2018 | Civic Analytics
With deaths from drug overdoses now the leading cause of death for US citizens under the age of 50, the US Department of Justice has turned to big data to help stem the flow of illegal drugs bought on the shadier back alleys of the internet. This past August, Attorney...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 6, 2018 | Civic Analytics, Civic Data & Tech
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter aren’t just for you or me. Terrorists use social networks as well — and extremist groups are getting more marketing-savvy by the day. These groups have branding. They make memes. Their videos have production value with drone...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 1, 2018 | Digital Forensics
A neural network is powerful. Within limits, it supposed to be able to compute any arbitrary function. But since any process can be computed as a function, neural networks can be used for all sorts of things from translating a page written in Cyrillic into English to...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 1, 2018 | Digital Forensics
Criminals today may try to hide the digital evidence of their misdeeds by burying it in the mass of code that underpins the graphical user interface that now dominates computer use. Unless you know what you are looking for specifically, these particular bits can be...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 1, 2018 | Digital Forensics
Big data is now intimately entwined with the world of forensic investigations. It’s the new normal; with so many sensor points around us, it’s estimated that by 2025 the average connected person will have over 4,800 interactions with IoT devices every day....
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 1, 2018 | Digital Forensics
The internet of things (IoT) has conquered our world. Statistics platform Statista estimates that there are over 20 billion IoT objects among us, constantly monitoring and recording us and our activities. By 2025, Statista projects that there will be more than nine...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 1, 2018 | Digital Forensics
Digital forensics is most often a reactive science. This isn’t Minority Report; a crime happens and a forensics team collects, preserves, analyzes, and presents the scientific version of the facts before a court of law. But with the increasing connectedness of the...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 1, 2018 | Digital Forensics
When your boat fills with water, you need a bucket to bail it out. But sometimes there’s just too much water. For digital forensics experts working in an IoT world, drowning in data is the new norm. It can seem like the old tools aren’t adequate The old methods of...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 28, 2018 | Digital Forensics
The Waymo v. Uber trial ended in a $245 million settlement earlier this month, closing out days of courtroom proceedings in which a digital forensics consulting firm emerged as a key entity. Waymo (owned by Google) accused rideshare company Uber of using trade secrets...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 26, 2018 | Procurement
At first glance, the 2018 budget deal passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump this month seems to herald boom times for contractors. The new two-year bipartisan deal boosts defense and civilian spending by $300 billion over the next two years, much...
