April 14, 2023, 7:40 a.m. | /u/SolomonGilbert

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Hello all :) UK penetration tester here.

Amongst my hobbies, I'm part of a company that specialises in combatting fraud, identity theft, and financial crime. I've just finished a little research project where I bought USB sticks on Facebook marketplace, conducted forensic analysis on them, and attempted to establish whether deleted files found from the analysis could be used as a viable criminal attack vector for identity theft.

The answer was a resounding yes. Amongst other things, we were able …

analysis attack attack vector crime criminal documents etc facebook files financial financial crime forensic forensic analysis fraud hello identity identity theft isn marketplace numbers opinions passports penetration privacy project recover research research project tax theft things usb usb sticks yes

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