Hey everyone, Tarah Melton here, and today I’m going to show you a new artifact that you can enable in AXIOM 4.4 when processing a Windows evidence item, called NTFS Timestamp Mismatch.
This artifact is looking for a couple of … Read more
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How To Use And Export Cloud Tokens With XRY
In this video, I’m going to show you how to download cloud tokens with XRY. This does require the XRY Cloud license to download them. You don’t get them without that license – as you can see here, I did … Read more
How To Use The Magnet Web Page Saver
Hey everyone, Tarah Melton here, and today we’re going to walk through a workflow that you can use alongside a new artifact in AXIOM 4.4 that will help you present data output from Magnet’s free too, the Magnet Web Page … Read more
How To Find Location Data From Pictures In XAMN
Welcome to this XAMN feature demonstration video. In this video I will show the use of XAMN filters to find images containing location information, this being longitude, latitude or even both. I will also demonstrate how to create a pivot … Read more
Somebody Else’s Hero: Mental Health In Digital Forensics
Impostor syndrome is a common topic on LinkedIn and other professional online career communities, but it seems especially poignant among digital forensics analysts, who frequently work 9-5 Monday to Friday viewing things that no human eye should ever have to … Read more
DFIRforGood Is A Great Start: Let’s Use It To Ask Tougher Questions
In recent weeks the DFIR community has increasingly begun to speak out under the hashtag #DFIRforGood following conference presentations by leaders in digital forensics and information security.
In a keynote delivered at the SANS DFIR Summit in July 2020, Matt … Read more
Timelines In Digital Forensic Investigation: From Investigation To Court
Timelines have become a mainstay of digital forensic analysis in both public and private sectors. They help to explain what was happening on a given device or set of devices during a cybersecurity incident, a crime, a collision, or other … Read more
Digital Forensics Standard-Setting: Summer 2020 Round-Up
The summer has been a busy one for standards-setting organizations in the United States and European Union:
- In the U.S., the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its final guidelines for cloud forensics, along with a document towards
Case Study: Digital Evidence Confirms Players In Major Bitcoin Heist
Traditional policework helped track down the thieves targeting cryptocurrency data centers in Iceland, but digital intelligence from one suspect’s mobile devices provided the proof of their involvement.
Date: 2018
Challenge: To connect six suspects to the theft of more than … Read more
Digital Forensic Evidence And Artifacts: Recent News And Research
This month’s academic research reflects two aspects of the changing digital forensics industry: new ways to think not just about digital artifacts, but also about broader investigative processes — including interagency cooperation.
This round-up article includes three open-access articles from … Read more