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How To Use Annotations In Amped Replay

Some of you may be aware of Amped Replay, but for those who are not, Replay can be considered the VLC (and much more!) for investigators. It was designed to make the life of investigators easier by providing them with

How To Perform An Android 10 Full File Extraction With MD-NEXT

New release: MD-NEXT v.1.89.5  Full filesystem extraction is available for Samsung Galaxy S10/Note10 Series (Exynos) with Android 10 (FBE enabled), and this will support the Samsung Secure Folder. Check out the video! If you have any questions, feel free to

Recent Research In Digital Forensics

Despite pandemic-related disruptions in both research and publishing as we head into the summer, there are still some posts and papers being published. In this round-up, we take a look at three recent articles in digital forensics. An Evaluation of

Virtualizing The Digital Forensics Lab

When the spread of COVID-19 spurred businesses and governments to close their doors and require employees to work from home, questions arose for those working in the criminal justice system. Operations couldn’t end, but to what extent would they be

Put Your Lab’s Existing Tools And Processes To Work — For Science

Digital forensic tools rely on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s National Software Reference Library (NSRL), the standard reference dataset, to filter out known software and images from unknown ones. Forensic examiners, judges, and attorneys rely on NIST’s

Mitigating Risk Through Standardization

A recap of Dr Gillian Tully’s DFRWS EU keynote. By Christa Miller, Forensic Focus No one denies that digital forensics is becoming more complex. The range of devices to examine keeps increasing, as does the complexity of acquiring and analyzing

MSAB XAMN

You’ve already extracted data from a mobile device, you’re up against the clock and you’re trying to analyze large amounts of mobile device and app data. Where do you start?  Join us for a 30-minute free webinar and learn smart

How To Extract Data From Samsung Galaxy S9 / Android 10 With MD-NEXT

In this video, we will introduce ‘Bootloader Pro’ extraction method which is capable of extracting Android 10 installed Samsung devices. Currently, MD-NEXT supports Galaxy S9(SM-G960N, SM-G960F)/Galaxy S9+(SM-G965N, SM-G965F)/Galaxy Note 9(SM-N960N) with Exynos chipset. If you have any further inquiries, contact

Forensic Focus Legal Update: The COVID-19 Edition

When employers worldwide instituted remote-work policies to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the impact to entire criminal justice systems — from law enforcement to evidence processing through the courts — was profound. Digital evidence examiners in

So You Want To Start A Digital Forensic Business

by Patrick Siewert Pro Digital Forensic Consulting is about to embark on its seventh year in full-time operation. It’s hard to believe that when I made the decision to transition from law enforcement to the private sector, my little company

Industry Roundup: Online Digital Forensics Training

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus  Online digital forensics training has been around for a number of years, offered as a convenient alternative to in-person training for examiners who couldn’t travel or were otherwise resource-constrained. In an unforeseen twist, though, live

How To Collect Data Using MacQuisition Live

As more employees are required to work from home, we’ve heard from our customers that they need the ability to remotely collect data from Mac systems without having to send MacQuisition hardware to someone’s home. In order to help our