Brute forcing on secured shell servers emphasising the role of cyber forensics - a quali-quantitative study.

Background: Increasing numbers of cyber attacks threaten us personally and professionally. Cyber crimes include obtaining sensitive information (medical or financial) but may extend to organising heinous crimes including murders and aggravated sexual assaults. A major vector of cyber crimes is brute force attacks on secured shell servers.

Glass table tops: An unusual source of lethal domestic injury.

A 42-year-old woman who fell through a glass tabletop had her lower back pierced by a long shard of glass. She rapidly exsanguinated. At autopsy, a single penetrating wound was present in her left lower back, with complete transection of her left kidney and a 3.

Timing of death of a dead born foetus determined at medico-legal autopsy refuted the allegation of medical negligence.

The case concerns a dead newborn. The family alleged that his death was due to delay in delivery by the attending doctors. Medico-legal autopsy was performed three days later which showed maceration changes suggestive of the foetus lying for about 24 h which prima facie refuted the allegation of negligence.

Fatal bleeding from a laceration of superficial temporal artery: A rare case.

We report a case of a 34-year-old drunken male, who was found dead in his apartment. On scene inspection, the deceased body was found in the sitting position on a chair, and a massive arterial blood pattern was observed at the scene. First responders and the coroner visited the scene considered this case as a criminally suspicious due to arterial blood pattern on walls and excessive blood pool at the scene.

An unusual patterned injury from homicidal craniocerebral impalement with a metal chair leg.

A 26-year-old young man died shortly after he had suffered craniocerebral impalement from a metal chair leg during an affray at an airport bar. At autopsy a 25 mm diameter circular wound was present in the left parietal region with protruding brain tissue. Death was due to craniocerebral trauma from a penetrating injury to the head.

Post-mortem CT with macroscopic and microscopic correlation in a case of sudden death due to systemic sarcoidosis.

We report a case of sudden death due to systemic sarcoidosis in a fifty-four year old male who was reportedly healthy. A computerized tomography (CT) scan was performed before the autopsy. It showed cardiomegaly with hilar and abdominal lymphadenopathy.

Rare gripping object in electrocution: Cadaveric spasm at its best.

Cadaveric spasm causes instantaneous rigor without preceding post-mortem flaccidity. The precise pathophysiological basis of this phenomenon is still unknown. We report a case of accidental electrocution where the deceased was found dead with a metallic water supply pipe of a motor booster pump firmly gripped in his hand.

Deaths Due to Accidental Air Conditioner Compressor Explosion: A Case Series.

In an air-conditioning system, the compressor is a large electric pump that pressurizes the refrigerant gas as part of the process of turning it back into a liquid. The explosion of an air conditioner (AC) compressor is an uncommon event, and immediate death resulted from the blast effect is not reported in forensic literature. We report three such cases in which young AC mechanics were killed on the spot due to compressor blast, while repairing the domestic split AC unit.

Intracranial penetrating injury by screw driver: a case report and review of literature.

Penetrating injury to the head, with the exception of missile injuries is rare owing to thick calvarium. Orbital and temporal areas are comparatively vulnerable to penetrating injuries, due to their relative thinness. A case is presented in which a man killed his wife by forcefully thrusting a screw driver into her cranial cavity.