by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus
When we published our March opinion piece, “When Digital Forensics Vendors Hire Research Talent, Where Does It Leave Research?” the reaction on Twitter — mostly from vendor representatives themselves — was swift and … Read more
by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus
Online digital forensics training has been around for a number of years, offered as a convenient alternative to in-person training for examiners who couldn’t travel or were otherwise resource-constrained. In an unforeseen twist, though, live … Read more
As more employees are required to work from home, we’ve heard from our customers that they need the ability to remotely collect data from Mac systems without having to send MacQuisition hardware to someone’s home. In order to help our … Read more
Welcome to Oxygen Forensic Detective’s Knowledge Nuggets. In this video we’re going to discuss decrypting WhatsApp messaging.
Let’s go over a few very important points that you need to consider before analyzing WhatsApp.
Number one: always place the device in … Read more
Welcome to Oxygen Forensic Detective’s knowledge nuggets. In this video, I will show you how simple it is to extract cloud data using Detective’s Cloud Extractor. If you weren’t already aware, Oxygen Forensic Detective has a lot more to it … Read more
‘17.5 Zettabytes.’ This is the amount of data that the IDC estimates will be generated annually by 2025, and among those numbers, cloud traffic is expected to grow and reach 18.9 Zettabytes by 2021.
This tremendous amount of cloud data … Read more
by Christa Miller
In the second half of 2019, a set of hirings made some waves in the digital forensics community. First, in July, Cellebrite hired well-known SANS Senior Instructor Heather Mahalik. Then in August, Mike Williamson joined Jessica Hyde, … Read more
by Oxygen Forensics
What’s Checkm8?
Checkm8 is an exploit (program exploiting OS or hardware vulnerabilities) aimed at obtaining access to the execution of its own software code at the earliest stage of iOS device loading.
What makes it stand out?… Read more
by Oleg Skulkin & Svetlana Ostrovskaya
Recently Microsoft finally released the Chromium-based version of Edge Browser, so it seems we’ll miss ESE databases soon (not). Of course, it may have a similar set of forensic artifacts to Chromium or Chrome, … Read more
by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus
Pattern of life analysis isn’t a new concept to anyone who’s ever been involved with intelligence, in particular surveillance. It’s all about the habits that people — suspects, persons of interest, crime victims, or those … Read more