As 2020 drew to a close, demand for digital forensics and investigations had perhaps never been higher. The COVID-19 pandemic continued to accelerate many forms of digital crime, particularly crimes against children and various types of fraud.
At the … Read more
The Microsoft Windows operating system stores passwords and other login data for the installed applications on a system disk in the user profile directory, as well as in a hierarchical Windows registry database. By acquiring this database from a target … Read more
VeraCrypt and the former TrueCrypt are two of the most challenging types of encryption to bypass with regard to their popularity as full disk encryption software.
Unlike Bitlocker encryption, TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt may encrypt their containers and volumes with multiple encryption … Read more
The top 10 most valuable updates of 2020, from MSAB:
Welcome everyone. My name is Jenna Czaplicki, and today I’m going to walk you through a feature called ‘Promote to Discover.’
Promote to Discover is a feature available in both Nuix Workstation and Nuix Investigate, but today we will focus … Read more
Welcome to this quick how-to guide explaining how to work with the Categories filter within XAMN. Categories filter is a powerful tool that is built into the heart of XAMN to help you quickly identify artifacts of a specific type … Read more
In September, Forensic Focus was invited to sit in on a meeting of the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE). The third and final meeting of 2020 was held virtually — just as the previous meeting, in June, had … Read more
Linux is the dominant operating system used for the millions of web servers on which the Internet is built. ZDNet reports, in fact, that 96.3% of web servers run Linux. Because of this, a large number of incidents involving … Read more
I’m now going to walk you through the steps to perform a targeted file collection. Performing targeted file collections is a critical function of ediscovery and investigative matters.
In step one, we establish the collection: case information, as well as … Read more
In this brief contact tracing demo, we’re first going to create a new case in Nuix Workstation. We’ll add evidence to the case in the form of real-time data from a Kafka topic, as you can see here.
Switching over … Read more