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How To Efficiently Decrypt TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt Encryption Using Passware

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

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

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

How To Use The Categories Filter In XAMN

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

A Linux Forensics Starter Case Study

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 Build A Contact Tracing App On Nuix Software

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

After SQLite, What Next? A Must-Read Primer On LevelDB

Over recent weeks, Alex Caithness, Principal Analyst at CCL Solutions, has been exploring the LevelDB database format. As ubiquitous as SQLite has become owing to the popularity of iOS and Android, he argues, “The trio of HTML5, CSS and JavaScript

How To Use UFED Physical Analyzer 7.33

We set out on a journey to devise a more intuitive design with improved navigation, visuals, and tools to optimize UFED Physical Analyzer to help you save valuable time and get the job done accurately. Now you can find evidence

Research Roundup: Finding New Cultural And Technical Opportunities

One of the most interesting and important things about digital forensics research is the way legal, cultural, and operational landscapes in different countries inform and even drive the research. In other words, digital technology doesn’t exist in a vacuum, even

Global Perspectives From Women In Digital Forensics

Women mathematicians and scientists invented the computer algorithm, software as we know it, and the foundation of telecommunications, including wireless communication. They helped break secret enemy messages during World War II, and ensured men got not just into space, but

Knowledge Sharing And Transfer In Digital Forensics

Sharing is at the heart of any community, and no less so in digital forensics and incident response. Sharing helps to avoid reinventing the wheel — or unnecessarily overcomplicating it. That’s especially true as the complexity of digital evidence advances