Graduate Students Helping Wage Cyber Crime War
By Prempal Singh
Students exploitation and homicide instances are stacking up for a cyber crime laboratory.
Forensic lab analysts say they are busy tugging out key components of information from cell phones that will soon be turned over for criminal prosecution.
“The most of the instances which may have come in at this point revolve around homicide cases and various types of gender offences or child exploitation instances, ” said forensic laboratory analyst, Jonathan Hay.
Hay said the University of North Texas Crime Laboratory has been contacted by local police force agencies and district attorney’s offices to extract pictures and videos for various cases.
“It’s evidence, ” said Hay.
Graduate students are also assisting with research and say oftentimes the computer alone can’t discover pictures and videos.
“You know the pornographic images or threats of some type could be hidden within these programs that you needed never know about”, said graduate assistant Lynn Belous.
They say something as innocent looking as a calculator icon can be used in the wrong manner to hide pictures.
Many of these cases are still under investigation and once all of the information is extracted, it will be turned over to police investigators or area attorney’s offices.
Source: dfw.cbslocal.com