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How To Decrypt WhatsApp Messages With Oxygen Forensic Detective

Welcome to Oxygen Forensic Detective’s Knowledge Nuggets. In this video we’re going to discuss decrypting WhatsApp messaging. Let’s go over a few very important points that you need to consider before analyzing WhatsApp.  Number one: always place the device in

How To Acquire Cloud Data With MD-CLOUD

‘17.5 Zettabytes.’ This is the amount of data that the IDC estimates will be generated annually by 2025, and among those numbers, cloud traffic is expected to grow and reach 18.9 Zettabytes by 2021. This tremendous amount of cloud data

Everything You Ever Wanted To Ask About Checkm8 And Checkra1n

by Oxygen Forensics  What’s Checkm8? Checkm8 is an exploit (program exploiting OS or hardware vulnerabilities) aimed at obtaining access to the execution of its own software code at the earliest stage of iOS device loading. What makes it stand out?

Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge From A Forensic Point Of View

by Oleg Skulkin & Svetlana Ostrovskaya Recently Microsoft finally released the Chromium-based version of Edge Browser, so it seems we’ll miss ESE databases soon (not). Of course, it may have a similar set of forensic artifacts to Chromium or Chrome,

Forensic Pattern Of Life Analysis

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Pattern of life analysis isn’t a new concept to anyone who’s ever been involved with intelligence, in particular surveillance.  It’s all about the habits that people — suspects, persons of interest, crime victims, or those

NIST Tests Forensic Methods For Getting Data From Damaged Mobile Phones

by Richard Press Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy evidence. They might smash, shoot, submerge or cook their phones, but forensics experts can often retrieve the evidence anyway. Now, researchers at the National Institute of

Industry Roundup: Cloud Forensics

by Christa Miller Only a few short years ago, the idea of recovering forensic data from the cloud seemed like either troubling overreach, or unnecessarily redundant given the availability of evidence from mobile devices. As encryption became more prevalent on

How To Analyze Call Data Records In Oxygen Forensic Detective

Hi, this is Amanda Mangan with Oxygen Forensics. In this video, we’re going to go over Oxygen Forensics’ Call Data Expert. The first thing we’ll discuss is, what exactly is a CDR? A CDR is a call data record, and

Forensic Focus Legal Update December 2019 – Part II: Search And Seizure

by Christa Miller In cooperation with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, Forensic Focus offers a quarterly roundup of the latest legal developments around digital forensic evidence. Comprising major

How To Parse AirDrop Artifacts In Magnet AXIOM

Hey everyone, Trey Amick from Magnet Forensics here. Today we’re going to be looking at a new set of artifacts specific to Mac investigations, which will be released as part of the AXIOM 3.8 release. Today we’re going to be

Forensic Focus Legal Update December 2019 – Part I

by Christa Miller  In cooperation with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, Forensic Focus is proud to offer a quarterly roundup of the latest legal developments around digital forensic

How To Use Social Graph In Oxygen Forensic Detective

Hello, this is Keith Lockhart from the Oxygen Forensic training department, and this video is talking about the Social Graph inside Oxygen Forensic Detective. To fully understand the Social Graph and the things it can do for you, you kind

Investigating Nonconsensual Intimate Image Sharing

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Nonconsensual intimate image sharing – also known as image-based sexual abuse, nonconsensual pornography, or its original slang, “revenge porn” – has been around since at least the 1980s, but didn’t become a widespread social problem

How To Search For Visual Data With Griffeye Analyze DI

How To Search For Visual Data With Griffeye Analyze DI
In this video, we’re going to discuss how to use the ‘Search’ function to help you quickly locate files of interest within your case. Analyze DI allows users to search for not only text-based information, but also visual clues as