Noel Lowdon

Just launched an area and free resource in our App called the Serious Collision Investigation Legacy. It will be a place we deposit knowledge on how to investigate serious collisions. 1.19bn still dying each year globally so lots of investigations carried out. If you need it let me know.

If your agency needs this development, we’re here to help. Our training is flexible - we can schedule sessions to fit your needs. With the facilities and small groups (just two participants per course), we make it straightforward to get this training on for you or your staff.

A busy start to 2025 with three Automotive Chip-Off courses completed already.

That means six Law Enforcement officers have enhanced their capabilities in Vehicle Systems Forensics—equipped with additional skills to tackle challenges in this field.

Maybe another sign of manufactures wishing to bring customers into their digital eco systems for commercial purposes as they drill for more oil (consumer data!) I have to ask myself why for eg Mercedes have developed MB OS for infotainment rather than just allow ACP / AA.

Vehicle Systems Forensics in 2025 More Data, More Challenges, More Opportunities

Key Themes for Vehicle Investigations in 2025

1st article in a new series is out: the rising focus on vehicle data and its impact this year.

Read on LinkedIn, our website, or watch the video in The Vehicle Network App (10/01 Friday Feature).

Thoughts? Comments?

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The Vehicle Network App is available in both app stores or as a PWA the-vehicle-network.passion.io

Digital Professionals on Bluesky wanting access hit me up and will activate the essentials and community plan foc for this series and beyond, for all things vehicles.

This weeks Friday Feature is live in our App - The Vehicle Network. The first in a series of vlogs looking at key themes for 2025 in vehicle related investigations. The first one looks at the anticipated increase in vehicle exams for data.

You Ask We Answer: Do I Get a Report? Vehicle Systems Forensics examinations often raise questions about the type of documentation or reporting you can expect. Here's how our process typically works which is a two stage process.

New Blog Post in our series of some of the most frequent questions asked of us. harpershaw.co.uk/blog/f/you-a...

Finally managed to get to a UK ASRG event yesterday and was able to offer an insight into the way Vehicle Systems Forensics can work hand in hand with Automotive Cybersecurity. Great presentations all round. Looking forward to future events.

Ha ha been here this week

Running another vehicle systems forensics course this week - module 3 from our programme - component examination. Acquisition methods including ISP. Many vehicles still include eMMC with no encryption. However so many different chip types & storage mediums found inside these require multi techniques

Data Reliability - VW MIB2STD: ISP Methods & Parking Durations Assessing Data Reliability in Volkswagen MIB2STD Infotainment Systems: In System Programming (ISP) - Preferred Acquisition Methods and the Need for Caution in Interpreting Parking Durations.

Here’s some research we did a few years ago but wrote up more recently about VW Mib2 infotainment systems. Vitally important to understand data limitations, only way to truly know is test.

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Thanks appreciated.

YouTube video by The Vehicle Network App Crash Scan - Lab Kit

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Another tool just landed for obtaining crash data from airbag control modules when no power at the vehicle. Fortunate to use a prototype earlier this year and it’s a nice addition to the tool box. Video walk through below.

This allows investigators to perform non destructive acquisitions on infotainment systems that have eMMC storage. Not all modules do some are older with TSOP only, some moving to UFS but a large chunk at the moment are eMMC. Raw data analysis also allows people to understand the source of the data

To kick things off we will be hosting one of our module 3 (component examinations) courses out of our training programme next week for people who are looking to use advanced techniques to acquire data from vehicle infotainment systems. ISP and then data reconstruction.

Thanks to @abrignoni.bsky.social for pointing me to the @bsky.app platform, look forward to engaging and posting content predominantly to do with Vehicle Systems Forensics but some other stuff too.

Il do some vehicle stuff