Who retains Rune Forensics
Criminal defense counsel, civil litigators, businesses, insurers, investigators, and individuals represented by counsel.
Boston, Massachusetts
Digital forensics and expert evidence analysis in Boston
Forensic examination and independent review for Boston matters involving phones, computers, cloud accounts, email records, timelines, forensic reports, and questioned digital media.
Boston forensic consulting
Digital evidence can affect case strategy before anyone reaches the merits.
Rune Forensics assists attorneys, businesses, insurers, investigators, and represented individuals when digital evidence needs to be preserved, examined, challenged, or explained. Boston matters can involve corporate systems, employee devices, personal phones, cloud accounts, email platforms, disputed media, or a forensic report already produced by another examiner.
The work is not limited to generating a tool report. Source artifacts, timestamps, metadata, account records, application behavior, file system data, and surrounding context are reviewed so the findings remain tied to the evidence rather than assumptions.
What the work is built to answer
What happened, what the records show, what they do not show, and where the available evidence has limits.
Forensic services for Boston matters
Focused examination of devices, accounts, records, and reports.
The service path depends on the evidence question. Some matters require preservation. Others require analysis, rebuttal review, timeline work, or testimony support.
Computer forensics
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File activity, user activity, external media, browser records, and system artifacts.
Computer examinations may address file access, deletion, transfer activity, internet use, installed applications, removable devices, and operating system records.
Mobile forensics
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Messages, application data, media, location artifacts, and phone extractions.
Mobile device review may include extraction analysis, deleted data questions, app records, calls, media, device activity, and limitations caused by encryption or access.
Email and BEC
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Mailbox activity, forwarding rules, suspicious logins, and account compromise records.
Email review may include headers, authentication records, mailbox rules, sign in logs, forwarding activity, and the sequence of events around disputed communication.
Business investigations
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Departing employees, account access, cloud systems, and internal disputes.
Business forensic work may address file movement, cloud sync, account misuse, employee device activity, and records relevant to internal investigations.
Independent review
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Second opinions on extractions, reports, assumptions, timelines, and conclusions.
Independent review evaluates whether the available records support a forensic conclusion, whether important limitations were stated, and whether additional source data should be examined.
Litigation support
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Reports, declarations, deposition preparation, and testimony support.
Findings can be organized for attorneys, courts, insurers, and other reviewers who need the technical record explained clearly.
Questioned media and deepfake review
When photos, video, or audio are part of the dispute.
Boston matters increasingly involve screenshots, images, videos, recordings, social media content, and files alleged to be edited, misattributed, staged, or AI generated. Forensic review can help separate what the file itself shows from what surrounding records suggest.
Analysis may include metadata, file structure, timestamps, compression history, editing indicators, device records, account records, transmission history, and consistency with the broader timeline. The goal is not to overstate certainty. The goal is to explain what can be supported and what remains unresolved.
Media record
Photo, video, audio, screenshot, or shared file
Review begins with the original file when available, not just a copy embedded in a message or document.
Forensic checks
Metadata, timestamps, compression, source context, and account records
Indicators are considered together because one artifact rarely answers the entire question.
For attorneys and litigation teams
Analysis that can be reviewed, challenged, and explained.
Legal matters require more than a list of recovered artifacts. The examiner should be able to explain the source of a finding, the method used to reach it, and the limits of the available evidence.
Reports and rebuttal review
Reports can identify what was reviewed, what was found, what was not found, and what facts remain unresolved. When reviewing another report, the work focuses on source data, method, assumptions, omissions, and limits.
Chain of custody and documentation
Handling, transfer, extraction, review, and reporting steps are documented so the process can be explained later if the evidence is questioned.
Consultation before collection
Early consultation can help identify what should be preserved, what should not be altered, and whether the available records are likely to answer the question presented.
Questions forensic work may address
The useful question is usually narrower than the available data.
Boston cases can include large volumes of data. The work is scoped around the records that matter.
Was a file accessed, copied, deleted, transferred, or modified?
Do phone records support the alleged sequence of communications?
Were cloud records or account logins consistent with unauthorized access?
Does a screenshot match underlying application or account records?
Did a forensic report omit artifacts, limitations, or alternate explanations?
Can a photo, video, audio file, or document be tied to a device, account, or timeline?
Why Rune Forensics
Independent forensic work for matters where the record may be questioned.
Rune Forensics provides digital forensic consulting, reporting, independent review, and testimony support. The work is designed for attorneys and decision makers who need the evidence explained without turning uncertainty into certainty.
Certifications and tools matter, but neither replaces examiner judgment. Findings are checked against the records that support them, and limitations are stated when they affect the strength of an opinion.
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Engagement process
Define the issue
The matter begins with the forensic question, deadline, available evidence, and any legal or access limits.
Preserve the records
Devices, exports, account records, reports, and available logs are identified before unnecessary use or alteration occurs.
Review source artifacts
Findings are evaluated against artifacts, metadata, timestamps, logs, application records, and surrounding context.
Report the findings
The work product explains what was reviewed, what was found, what remains uncertain, and what the evidence can reasonably support.
Boston and Greater Boston matters
Remote and coordinated forensic support for Boston matters.
Rune Forensics is based on the North Shore of Massachusetts and supports Boston matters through remote consultation, controlled evidence transfer, coordinated device handling, and expert review when appropriate for the evidence and scope.
Attorneys and firms
Consultation can help assess preservation issues, discovery questions, existing forensic reports, and whether additional review is needed.
Businesses and insurers
Forensic work may support internal investigations, account compromise review, employee device issues, claim analysis, and business disputes.
Individuals represented by counsel
Review may address phones, computers, accounts, communications, media, timelines, and disputed forensic conclusions.
FAQ
Boston digital forensics questions
Do Boston matters require a local examiner to preserve digital evidence?
Not always. The right preservation method depends on the evidence source, device access, urgency, legal authority, and whether collection can be handled remotely, by controlled shipment, or through coordinated onsite support.
Can Rune Forensics review a Cellebrite or Magnet report in a Boston case?
Yes. An independent review can evaluate the extraction type, parsed results, source artifacts, omitted records, timeline issues, tool limitations, and whether the report supports the conclusions being offered.
Can deleted data be recovered from a phone or computer?
Sometimes. Recovery depends on the device, operating system, encryption state, application, storage activity, elapsed time, and the type of forensic access available. No responsible examiner should guarantee deleted data recovery.
Can digital forensic analysis help with questioned photos, video, audio, or deepfake concerns?
Yes. Review may include metadata, file structure, timestamps, compression history, device records, account records, edit indicators, and surrounding context. The goal is to explain what the available records can and cannot establish.
What should be preserved before contacting a forensic examiner?
Preserve the original device or account access when possible, avoid factory resets, avoid unnecessary use, keep messages and files in place, retain cloud records, and document who has handled the evidence.
Can Rune Forensics support attorneys with reports and testimony?
Yes. Work can include consultation, written reports, rebuttal analysis, declarations, deposition preparation, and testimony support when the forensic issues need to be explained clearly.
Boston forensic review
Need an independent review of digital evidence?
Send the matter type, the evidence sources, and any deadline that affects preservation, reporting, or testimony.
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