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Electromagnetic Side-Channel Attacks: Potential For Progressing Hindered Digital Forensic Analysis

12th May 202021st June 2018

by Asanka Sayakkara, Nhien-An Le-Khac & Mark Scanlon Abstract Digital forensics is a fast-growing field involving the discovery and analysis of digital evidence acquired from electronic devices to assist investigations for law enforcement. Traditional digital forensic investigative approaches are often

Deep Learning At The Shallow End: Malware Classification For Non-Domain Experts

12th May 202020th June 2018

by Quan Le, Oisín Boydell, Brian Mac Namee & Mark Scanlon Abstract Current malware detection and classification approaches generally rely on time consuming and knowledge intensive processes to extract patterns (signatures) and behaviors from malware, which are then used for

Evaluating Automated Facial Age Estimation Techniques For Digital Forensics

12th May 202019th June 2018

by Felix Anda, David Lillis, Nhien-An Le-Khac & Mark Scanlon Abstract In today’s world, closed circuit television, cellphone photographs and videos, open-source intelligence (i.e., social media/web data mining), and other sources of photographic evidence are commonly used by police forces

Apple iPhone Forensics: Significant Locations

12th May 202028th May 2018

by Patrick Siewert, Principal Consultant, Pro Digital Forensic Consulting I recently attended a conference of civil litigators in Virginia. During the cocktail hour and after a very interactive CLE presentation on “Leveraging Data in Insurance Fraud Investigations”, I was talking

Digital Forensics Resources

12th May 202025th May 2018

by Scar de Courcier One of the most frequent questions I’m asked by digital forensics students is about resources: where can they go to continue learning, where can they find out more about the industry, what are the best blogs

ADR512 Testing

12th May 202017th May 2018

by Andrey Fedorov The purpose of this article is to find additional information about the capabilities, specifics, and USPs of the ADR512 Android Data Recovery program. A full description of this software can be found here. Developers from 512 BYTE,

Searching And Filtering Emails When Forensically Collecting Mailboxes

12th May 202011th May 2018

Hand-drawn contacts and emails sketch with depth of field focus

by Arman Gungor When mailboxes are forensically preserved for eDiscovery or digital forensic investigations, their contents are almost always searched and filtered. Filtering emails helps overcome time, scope and cost constraints and alleviates privacy concerns. There are two main ways

Using Technology To Get Results: Think Outside The Silo

12th May 20207th May 2018

by Johann Hofmann, Griffeye In an article series of three, published in the Interpol Newsletter, Griffeye explores the possibilities of technology in digital media investigations. In this second article, Johann Hofmann, Director & Head of Griffeye, talks about the limitations

Changes To Forensic Laboratory Accreditation Requirements – ISO/IEC 17025

22nd February 202320th April 2018

by Tim Alcock ISO/IEC 17025:2017 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories is the principal international standard for the accreditation of laboratories performing testing (including sampling) and/or calibration. Originating from ISO/IEC Guide 25, the standard has

Finding Metasploit’s Meterpreter Traces With Memory Forensics

12th May 20203rd April 2018

by Oleg Skulkin & Igor Mikhaylov Metasploit Framework is not only very popular among pentesters, but is also quite often used by real adversaries. So why is memory forensics important here? Because Meterpreter, for example – an advanced, dynamically extensible

Jailbreaking iOS 11 And All Versions Of iOS 10

12th May 202030th March 2018

by Oleg Afonin, Mobile Product Specialist at ElcomSoft Jailbreaking iOS is becoming increasingly difficult, especially considering the amounts of money Apple and independent bug hunters are paying for discovered vulnerabilities that could lead to a working exploit. Late last year,

Law Enforcement Professionals Need to Evaluate Digital Forensics Practices Amid Looming Constitutional Showdown Regarding Digital Searches

22nd February 202316th March 2018

by L.E. “Ted” Wilson There is a fascinating constitutional showdown brewing in the U.S. that will have significant implications for how our law enforcement agencies are able to conduct digital investigations. The fundamental question at issue is whether the Fifth

Forensic Analysis of Damaged SQLite Databases

12th May 202014th March 2018

by Oleg Skulkin & Igor Mikhaylov SQLite databases are very common sources of forensic artifacts nowadays. A lot of mobile applications store data in such databases: you can also find them on desktop computers and laptops as well as, for

Forensic Acquisition Of Solid State Drives With Open Source Tools

12th May 202013th March 2018

by Josué Ferreira Abstract From a judicial perspective, the integrity of volatile storage devices has always been a reason for great concern and therefore, it is important for a method to forensically acquire data from Solid State Drives (SSD) to

Oxygen Drone Forensics – How To Deal With A New Threat

12th May 20206th March 2018

It was not too long ago when drones were discussed we would often think of military use or large commercial type applications. However, today drones are now in the hands of hobbyists who frequently use the devices for taking aerial

Evidence Acquisition Using Accessdata FTK Imager

12th May 20202nd March 2018

by Chirath De Alwis Forensic Toolkit or FTK is a computer forensics software product made by AccessData. This is a Windows based commercial product. For forensic investigations, the same development team has created a free version of the commercial product