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A Springboard To Digital Forensics Research In 2021

8th February 2021

The end of 2020 could not come fast enough for most of us, and yet, as the year wound down, some things — such as the digital forensics research recapped in this article — were worth slowing down for. This

Are You Looking To Get #DFIRfit In 2021?

18th February 20215th February 2021

Few digital forensics practitioners would dispute that their job is largely sedentary: there’s a lot of sitting, be it in labs, vehicles (including aircraft), meeting rooms, and conference lecture rooms, among others. That only became more true in 2020, when

Writing DFIR Reports: A Primer

4th February 20214th February 2021

“How do I write a good DFIR report?” – Literally Everyone at some point You wouldn’t believe how many times that question gets asked out of me here at Marshall University (and sometimes in the DFIR community). Year after year I’ve

How To Extract Text From Files Using OCR In Magnet AXIOM

27th January 2021

Tara: Hey everyone, Tara Melton here, and I’m going to be showing you a new and exciting feature introduced in AXIOM 4.8. Now you can extract text from certain files using optical character recognition, or OCR, technology. AXIOM will extract

How To Investigate The Source Camera Of Digital Videos

25th January 2021

Unique features that allow for identification are considered a real blessing in investigations. First, there was fingerprint analysis, then DNA analysis brought a real revolution, raising the contribution of scientific analysis to investigations at unprecedented levels. The field of digital

How To Convert Proprietary Video Files With The Amped Conversion Engine

21st January 2021

Behind the scenes of all Amped Software programs that handle video files there is a powerful and unique conversion engine. Although quick and simple in use, it hides an extraordinarily complex process that is required when dealing with proprietary surveillance

How To Timeline Login Information From Windows Event Logs

20th January 2021

Justin: Alright. So, hello. And this is a recorded video, so just kind of, welcome, whenever you’re watching this. I’m Justin Tolman, I am the Director of Training for AccessData, and today, for the next little bit, we’ll be talking

How To Perform iOS Full Filesystem Extraction Via Checkm8 With Oxygen Forensic Detective

19th January 2021

Keith: Hey, it’s Keith Lockhart, Director of Training with Oxygen Forensics. This video is titled “iOS Full File Extraction via Checkm8,” but the reality is it’s the evolutionary next step of a video that already exists in our knowledge library,

Digital Forensics Standards Update: Calls For Training And Public Comment

18th January 2021

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 same

How To Extract Passwords From The Acquired Windows Registry With Passware

15th January 2021

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

How To Efficiently Decrypt TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt Encryption Using Passware

13th January 2021

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 keys (cascade

MSAB: Top 10 Updates Of 2020

18th December 202017th December 2020

The top 10 most valuable updates of 2020, from MSAB: 32,931 supported profilesIncluding iOS 14, Samsung A & J series, Huawei Mediatech devices and LG Qualcomm devicesCheckm8 exploit is now integrated in XRYNew connected device screen capture capability in XRY