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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

How To Use Nuix Promote To Discover

14th December 2020

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

Forensic Focus Legal Update December 2020: Refining Search & Seizure; New Laws & Guidance

22nd February 202311th December 2020

The fourth quarter of 2020 has seen some significant legal developments when it comes to digital evidence. In this issue (which also happens to be the anniversary of the inaugural Forensic Focus Legal Update), we highlight: Search warrant reform in

How To Use The Categories Filter In XAMN

10th December 2020

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

Community In Collaboration: The Scientific Working Group On Digital Evidence

9th December 20209th December 2020

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

A Linux Forensics Starter Case Study

8th December 2020

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 web

How To Use Nuix Enterprise Collection Center For Targeted File Collections

7th December 2020

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

How To Build A Contact Tracing App On Nuix Software

4th December 2020

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