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October 24, 2025

Protecting Victims at the Intersection of Cyber and Domestic Violence - Part Four in a Five-Part Series on Cybersecurity Awareness and Investigating Cybercrime

October is both Cybersecurity and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and our focus today is on the crucial, yet often overlooked, intersection where abusers weaponize everyday technology, from IoT devices and…

October 17, 2025

Deepfakes, Disinformation and the Death of Trust Online: Part Three in a Five-Part Series on Cybersecurity Awareness and Investigating Cybercrime

In 2025, fraudsters don’t just hack systems — they hack belief. AI-generated faces and voices, fake online personas, and disinformation campaigns are being used in romance scams, business fraud, and even…

October 9, 2025

The “Who” Behind the Website: Part Two in a Five-Part Series on Cybersecurity Awareness and Investigating Cybercrime

As part of our ongoing series tied to Cybersecurity Awareness month, we thought we might highlight a recent case in which our client, a large medical device company, discovered an imposter website had been set…

October 3, 2025

The Unruly March of Technology - Part One in a Five-Part Series on Cybersecurity Awareness and Investigating Cybercrime

Who among my cohort of GenX hasn’t helped an aging parent sort through and unwind a text- or email-based scam of one or another sort - financial, romantic, personal info-based - to which they’ve fallen prey?

June 30, 2025

Digging in the weeds…and the deeds: Property records’ importance in complex investigations

While we aren’t always asked to look into a subject’s history of homeownership, any investigator worth their salt can attest that scrutinizing property and other related records can provide a window into a…

June 13, 2025

A Nod to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Public perceptions (and misperceptions) of the work investigators do have their roots in depictions spanning literature, film and television. One figure from the genre of detective fiction has come to be a…

April 7, 2025

National Library Week 2025

In case it wasn’t on your calendar, this week is one of 221B’s favorite weeks of the year—National Library Week! Libraries hold a myriad of records, ranging from old newspaper articles to environmental maps to…

January 28, 2025

From Exposure to Action: Strengthening Executive Security in a Digital Age

It’s 2025, and we here at 221B believe there is no better way to kick off the New Year (and celebrate Data Privacy Day!) than with a critical look at one’s online exposure. Now more than ever, executives,…

October 31, 2024

The Uniform Commercial Code Filing: Finding Investigative Pearls

As investigators probing the backgrounds and interests of individuals and companies in the context of due diligence, litigation consulting or asset searches, one of our principal remits is to understand and…

October 3, 2024

Swiping Left on Romance Scams

In the world of online dating and social media, romance scams have become alarmingly common. These skilled scammers are professionals at emotional exploitation. They manipulate their victims into sharing…

September 30, 2024

Searching Press? Why Databases May Not be Enough

It’s often said that journalism is the first rough draft of history. Unfortunately, like most rough drafts, press reports aren’t always perfect and can contain incomplete information or outright errors.…

August 1, 2024

Take a Dip in the Internet’s Hot Tub Time Machine

On this World Wide Web Day, we highlight an important (and free) resource to use during an investigation - the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a searchable repository of archived webpages dating to the…

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