Sean Farrell (aged 27), of Kilfenora Road, Crumlin, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation within the State namely Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the Irish Republican Army, otherwise the IRA on July 7, 2011.

Giving evidence this afternoon before the non-jury court, Detective Garda Fiona Summers told Mr Michael Bowman BL, for the State, that she works with Europol as an analyst and is attached to the Special Detective Unit.

She agreed that she conducted a review of an XRY analysis of mobile phones taken from Mr Farrell and another man also arrested during the investigation, and extracted all communications between the two handsets such as text messages and phone calls.

The court heard earlier that an XRY examination involves the use of software to download from mobile phones and SIM cards details of all communications such as texts written and received, phone calls made, received and missed, contact phonebook details and pictures saved.

Det Gda Summers told Mr Bowman that a text message sent to Mr Farrell's phone from the other man’s phone at 10:53am on June 24, 2011 read: “Sean, did you put everything in the one bag”.

The trial heard last week that the fingerprint of the accused man was retrieved from a plastic bag used to wrap a sawn-off shotgun, which gardaí found along with two other weapons after a search of a one-bedroom flat on Bride Road in Dublin 8.

For more on this story please visit Breaking News IE >>

Three teenage robbers put themselves in the frame by taking pictures of themselves with their loot on a mobile phone - and even using one damning photo as a screensaver.

The boys - two aged 16 and one 17 - had thought they had got away with their armed raid at a 24-hour service station after disguising themselves with hoodies and scarves and turning their coats inside out.

But a police raid on their homes found the mobile phone containing the incriminating pictures. 

Today, Det Sgt Paul Copplestone of Greater Manchester Police said: 'We had very very good circumstantial evidence as well as the phones.

'We found they had been using the phones to use taxis in that vicinity on the morning of the raid and the pictures we found of one of them with the money which was a bit of a nail in the coffin.'

The police also traced the date and time of the photos to just after the offence.

Read more: Daily Mail Story >>

Stafford, a former officer with the Police Computer Crime Squad in Western Australia, fondly recalled how some criminals had the odd habit of taking photographs of their prized assets.

For example, criminals nabbed for possessing weapons were found to have photographs posing with their marijuana plants on their smartphones.

For more on this story please visit The Hong Kong Standard >>

As “cybercrime” becomes more and more prevalent, police will tell you it’s crucial that they don’t fall behind.

“When you talk about cybercrime, that’s pretty much anything that can be transmitted over a computer or telephone or anything else — whether it’s transferring pictures or whether it’s running a scam or maintaining evidence of a crime in a computer or cell phone,”

said Canyon County Criminal Investigations Section Lt. Marv Dashiell.

Technology is always changing, and for police, it could take thousands of dollars and overtime hours to keep up.

Drug dealers, child enticers and scammers are finding new ways to use technology to their advantage. This presents pros and cons for police.

For more information about this story and to watch a video interview with one of the officers please visit: www.idahopress.com >>

The company is now in the final testing stages before the release, which can be expected within the next 30 days at the latest.

v6.2 XRY promises to be a significant upgrade for all current users with major improvements in "Physical" extraction capabilities and a significant number of new devices supported.

If you want to be put on the mailing list for future announcements about releases, please use the Contact Me page to send us your details.

Micro Systemation understands that recommendations from other forensic practitioners have considerably more credibility than listening to the words of the marketing departments of the manufacturer.

So we thought we would take things one step further and seek the views of professionals to recommend XRY to others. Using the independent platform of LinkedIn to gather the results; we were delighted to discover that over ten different professionals who use XRY on a regular basis have all recommended it.

We truly believe you too can benefit from having a professional mobile forensic tool that focuses on:

• Ease of Use
• Analysis of Data
• Top Level Technical Support

Take a look at the recommendations posted on

LinkedIn here for more details >>

We would be absolutely delighted if you felt compelled to write your own recommendation as well.

As our company continues to enjoy success in the mobile forensics sector, we need to invest more in research & development and customer support to maintain our strong position.

We currently have six new vacancies available in both Sweden & USA and more jobs are likely to be published during the year.

If you are interested in working for a Fast 500 Technology company involved in cutting edge technology to help detect crime, the please visit our Careers Page for more details.

We will be moving to new premises in Stockholm this year to provide increased accomodation, so use this link to see where you could be working in the future.

Stockholm, December 27th, 2011

NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ:NDAQ) announced that Micro Systemation AB
(MSAB B), today starts trading its shares on the main market of NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.

Micro Systemation was previously listed on NGM Equity and is the tenth company that has switched to NASDAQ OMX this year.

Joel Bollö, CEO at Micro Systemation commented

“Today’s listing and switch to NASDAQ OMX gives Micro Systemation yet another quality mark on our unique products and the company itself." 

"Our assessment is that a listing at one of Europe’s leading equities markets will provide our share with an improved liquidity in combination with a broader ownership base.”

For more information on this story and NASDAQ read the official press release here >>

It was never easy for judges to delineate the murky line that separates investigative necessity from personal privacy, but in an era of smartphones, computers and instant messaging, the exercise is fraught with uncertainty.

Close to 60 billion text messages were sent in Canada last year – a figure that hints at the stunning trove of intimate information contained in devices like cellphones. Increasingly, the courts are relying on experts to help them weigh the merits of allowing or excluding electronic evidence.

One of those experts – Daniel Embury, head of an RCMP forensic-science unit in Ottawa – works in a small, cluttered lab where he and the five technicians under his command are deluged by a blizzard of devices to be disassembled and analyzed.

Read More of this article at The Globe & Mail >>

In the past few days MSAB has been awarded the following three recognitions:

1. Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA

This programme is the region's most objective industry award programme, recognizing technology companies that have achieved the fastest rates of revenue growth in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) during the past five years.

2. Deloitte Sweden Technology Fast 50

Sweden Technology Fast 50 is an annual, independent ranking of the fastest growing technology companies. The ranking includes both public and private companies and covers all types of technology, the Internet, computers and other computer equipment to Biotech.

3. Di Gasell Company 2011

Dagens Industry identifies the fastest growing companies in Sweden for the Gazelle Award. Gazelle companies are masters at both profitable growth and creating new jobs, which have grown rapidly during the last three years.

On hearing the news Joel Bollö said 

"I am proud to be the CEO of Micro Systemation – this is the third year in row we have received such awards. Micro Systemation is unique to be in 0,07% of all companies in Sweden who achieve this status. It is a testament to all the hard work put in by our staff"