Suburban computer forensics team sifts through scams

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130315/business/703159783/

By Anna Marie Kukec
Daily Herald
3/15/2013

When a young employee of iRobot left the company known for the Roomba 
self-traveling vacuum, a competing product soon hit the market. After a period 
of surveillance, the company filed a lawsuit against the former employee for 
taking trade secrets.

Also making robots for the military, the company requires high security and 
hired Daniel Bellich, a former FBI agent who protected Pope John Paul II and 
headed major heroin busts, and Keith Chval, a former head of the High-Tech 
Crimes Unit at the Illinois Attorney General's office. They co-founded Claredon 
Hills-based Protek International, which specializes in computer forensics and 
investigations.

Chval and Bellich do high-tech computer investigations to search for data, and 
when necessary, combine that with some old-fashioned, low-tech Dumpster diving 
to retrieve records. In the iRobot case, they later enlisted the U.S. marshals 
office to escort them to search the homes of the suspect as well as his parents 
and girlfriend.

"We found the girlfriend's laptop had just finished wiping out some data," 
Chval said. "And during the course of all this, he got a $250 million 
Department of Defense contract. But it was later voided."

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