Cyberlab Computer Forensics, LLC

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Cyberlab Computer Forensics, LLC is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Cyberlab opened for business in August 2001 as the first regional forensic computer service in southeast Virginia, and one of the first privately-owned / private sector forensic computer services in the mid-Atlantic states. Cyberlab Computer Forensics, LLC offers a range of forensic computer services that includes: Forensic Computer Examinations Computer Data Forensic Analysis Lost Data Recovery Hidden Data Recovery "Exact" Copies of Hard Disks and Computer Media Unlocking Passwords and Lost Password Recovery Digital Discovery for Law Firms and Litigation Data Authentication Data Format Conversion "Suspect Employee" Internal Corporate Inquiries E-mail Trace Route Analysis (E-mail Tracing) "Trojan Horse" Hijacked Computer Analysis Deleted E-mail and Instant Message Chat recovery Kazaa/Morpheus/Grokster (etc.) file sharing analysis ICQ / AOL Instant Message / Yahoo / MSN6 and similar instant message chat recovery and analysis Internet History and Web Surfing Activity Analysis Data Recovery from Damaged Floppies and CD-Rs Wipe ("sterilize") old hard drives to DOD Standards Computer Registry Analysis And much, much more. Cyberlab serves the following kinds of clients: Law Firms Accountants, Fraud Examiners and Auditors Businesses and Corporations Law Enforcement, Police Agencies and Prosecutors Courts and the Judiciary (as a neutral third-party expert to the Court or a Special Master) Private Investigators Insurance Companies Victims of Computer Crimes or Torts Students or others suffering data loss Personnel. Our chief examiner is Gary Amos, J.D., C.F.C.E. Gary Amos is a Virginia attorney with a long and distinguished career both in the legal field and in legal education as a law professor. He has practiced in the areas of corporate law, international law, and international banking. He has taught and written in the areas of constitutional law, crime and punishment, individual rights and liberties, and jurisprudence. Gary Amos is a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (certified January 2002 by IACIS , the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists). He was the first computer forensic attorney in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As an attorney and CFCE he is qualified to assist district attorneys and prosecutors in computer crime prosecution, to assist plaintiff's or defense counsel in civil cases involving computer evidence, or to explain and interpret forensically significant digital evidence to defense counsel in criminal cases. For legal, ethical, and professional reasons the two roles of forensic computer examiner and attorney are kept separate. When serving as a forensic examiner, Mr. Amos does not serve in the role of attorney nor establish a privileged attorney/client relationship with the client. The forensic services provided are under the auspices of the client's own attorney. All privileged and confidential information involved is contractually protected by non-circumvention / non-disclosure agreements and additionally by the attorney workproduct privilege through the lead attorney in the case. For these and other reasons, all examinations performed by Gary Amos for Cyberlab Computer Forensics, LLC are as a forensic computer examiner and not as attorney at law. Expert Witness Services. Gary Amos has appeared as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases in the federal courts of south Florida, has served as a court-appointed neutral in Tennessee state court, and served as a neutral expert between parties litigating in federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia. When serving as an attorney rather than forensic computer examiner in a computer case, Mr. Amos does not act in the capacity of expert witness. Training. Gary Amos received his initial training as a forensic computer examiner in 2001 from the Computer Forensic Training Center in Key Largo, Florida. The Computer Forensic Training Center is recognized as an authorized computer forensics training program by the High Tech Crimes Network. The Computer Forensic Training Center is the only diploma-equivalent, certificate-granting computer forensics educational program in the United States. CFTC is owned and operated by John Mellon of Key Largo, Florida. John Mellon is internationally recognized as one of the world's premier computer forensic experts and one of the originators of computer forensic science. He is a retired US Customs Senior Special Agent with 28 years investigative experience and over 17 years experience in computers. He started the forensic computer examination program for U.S. Customs in Miami, Florida in 1991, and was its chief examiner through 1993. He has served as Chairman of the Board of IACIS, the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists, and as the IACIS Certification Committee Chairman. He developed and implemented the IACIS Forensic Examination Standards, the IACIS Code of Ethics, the advanced Windows Processing Certification, and previous IACIS Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) problems which were prerequisites for attaining the CFCE certification from IACIS. He continues to instruct civilians and law enforcement officers world-wide in computer forensic examinations. The computer forensic training sponsored by John Mellon and CFTC is now affiliated with the Southeast CyberCrime Institute at Kennesaw State University, the Tri County Technical College, Pendleton, SC, Sir Sanford Fleming College, Ontario, Canada and Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI. Cyberlab Computer Forensics, LLC highly recommends the training offered by Computer Forensic Training Center to anyone interested in receiving excellent instruction in forensic computer examinations. Continuing Education: Gary Amos stays current with the fast-changing field of computer forensics by annually attending weeklong training events such as those sponsored by the Southeast Cybercrime Institute of Kennesaw State University, by teaching courses in computer forensics, digital evidence and technology law, by personal research and study, by maintaining ongoing professional interaction with other forensic experts in areas such as network security and live network data acquisition forensics, and by the everyday hands-on practice of computer forensics in real cases and the business of advanced data analysis and recovery for corporate and private clients. Our experience includes analyzing computers with the following operating systems: DOS, MS-DOS, Windows 3.0 and 3.1, Windows 95A and 95B, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home and Pro, Unix, Linux, and several flavors of Apple Macintosh operating systems. We have examined computers with hard drives as small as several hundred megabytes and configurations as large as a terabyte (1,000 gigabytes). We have cracked as many as 8,000 passwords for a single case. Our experience includes uncovering contraband missed by law enforcement in one case, and doing preliminary forensic work later relied upon by federal law enforcement in tracing offshore laundered accounts in another. It includes forensic analysis of stand alone computers and computers connected to live networks. This experience also involves cases such as the following: demonstrating the means and methods where an innocent individual's computer was hacked and turned into a proxy server for another's anonymous and malicious activity; demonstrating the means and methods whereby a network was used to wrongfully obtain another's copyrighted proprietary information; demonstrating that an online site had appropriated a programmer's protected intellectual property involving a method of proprietary data encryption; demonstrating that suspect employees had used company computers to visit contraband sites on company time and contrary to company policy; uncovering evidence showing collusion between top managers to take clients and business with them to their new employer contrary to their contract obligations and noncompete agreements, etc. These are only a few examples among literally dozens of others, and there are many other sorts of data scenarios not mentioned besides these. Fees: Our Fees are normally based upon an hourly rate of $250 to $350 per hour, depending upon the operating system, the difficulty of the examination or recovery, and whether court testimony may be necessary. This rate will be determined and quoted before any limited or complete examination begins. We offer four types of examinations: (1) a

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