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Can Your Investigation Interpret Emoji?

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Emoji are everywhere — including in your evidence. Used across private-messaging apps and email, social media, and even in passwords and account names, emoji are pictographic representations of objects, moods, and words. They’re a convenient

Walkthrough: XRY Photon Manual

XRY Photon is a solution designed for recovering smartphone app data that’s inaccessible through normal extraction techniques. Now the power of XRY Photon has been expanded to cover hundreds of additional apps, with a new manual option. Before using XRY

How To Use Griffeye Brain – Artificial Intelligence

The Griffeye Brain in Analyze DI Pro version 19.2 brings the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to help you quickly locate and identify child sex abuse material within your investigations. In addition, the Griffeye Brain now has improved

Three Reasons Why Call Detail Records Analysis Is Not “Junk Science”

by Patrick Siewert, Principal Consultant, Pro Digital Forensic Consulting Since introducing our private sector clients to the impact that cellular call detail records (CDR) analysis & mapping can have on their cases, we’ve had a lot of robust discussions with

How To Save Time With XAMN’s Dynamic Artifact Count Feature

At MSAB, we’re always looking to improve our software and make every product more user-friendly, intuitive, and valuable; and to help save you time. We’ve recently improved the way that XAMN displays and counts artifacts. Let’s take a look at

How To Integrate LACE Carver With Griffeye Analyze DI Pro

Let’s talk about the exciting new LACE Carver integration with Analyze DI Pro. Once you have the proper license, you can head over to your Downloads page on MyGriffeye.com and go to the LACE Carver download. Once the app package

How To Use AXIOM In Malware Investigations: Part II

Hey everyone, Tara Nelson here with Magnet Forensics. Today I’m going to give a little insight into how AXIOM can help with some of your day-to-day investigations. In this video we’re going to talk a little bit about malware investigations.

How To Boot Scan A Microsoft Surface Pro

Hi, I’m Rich Frawley, and I’m the Digital Forensic Specialist with ADF Solutions. Today we’re going to conduct a boot scan of a Microsoft Surface Pro with BitLocker activated. At this point you have decided on a search profile, or

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part VI

by Harold Burt-Gerrans Welcome to Part 6, the last in this series. In case you’re joining late, the previous parts are available as follows: Standards Standards and De-Duplication Levels New Approach to Managing Duplicative Documents Family Level Coding Recursive De-Duplication

How To Use AXIOM In Malware Investigations: Part I

Hey everyone, Tara Nelson here with Magnet Forensics. Today I’m going to give a little bit of insight into how AXIOM can help with some of your day-to-day investigations. In part one of the segment we’re going to talk a

How To Export Media Files From BlackLight Into Semantics21

So before we go to export our files from BlackLight to S21, what we will normally do is we will run the hashes against our case. In this case what we’ve done is we’ve already run these hashes against BlackLight,

Cost-Effective Tools For Small Mobile Forensic Labs

by Alex Moeller As the costs associated with running a mobile devices forensic laboratory can be considered to be high, this article is aimed at providing alternative options for small organisations or individuals looking to reduce overheads.  Case Management Tools

Walkthrough: What’s New In XAMN v4.4

Hello and welcome to this video about what’s new in XAMN 4.4. I’m going to take you through ten new improvements, as you can see listed here in the latest release of the XAMN application. Let’s get straight on to the

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part V

by Harold Burt-Gerrans Welcome to Part 5. As promised in Part 4, I’ll start by discussing recursive de-duplication. Recursive De-Duplication: Using Aliases Within De-Duplication I can’t count the number of times that clients have complained about x.400/x.500 addresses in emails.

How To Collect And Share Digital Evidence Files With Prosecutors

In this short How To video, digital forensic specialist Rich Frawley will show you how to collect and share digital evidence files with prosecutors and third parties using ADF Software. This video is ideal for learning how to share evidence