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SSD and eMMC Forensics 2016 – Part 3

What Has Changed in 2016 in the Way SSD Drives Self-Destruct Evidence: Demystifying eMMC, M.2, NVMe, and PCI-E. by Yuri Gubanov & Oleg Afonin © Belkasoft Research 2016 In the previous part of the article, we talked about eMMC storages

Interview with Vladimir Katalov, Co-Founder and CEO, ElcomSoft

Vladimir, you’re co-founder and CEO at ElcomSoft. Tell us a bit about your role – how has it changed this year? I do quite a lot of things from marketing to technical support, and from project management to presentations about

Vladimir Katalov, Co-Founder and CEO, ElcomSoft

Vladimir, you’re co-founder and CEO at ElcomSoft. Tell us a bit about your role – how has it changed this year? I do quite a lot of things from marketing to technical support, and from project management to presentations about

Forensics Europe Expo – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights from the Forensics Europe Expo which took place at Kensington Olympia Conference Centre, London, on the 19th-20th of April 2016. The Forensics Europe Expo covers all aspects of forensics,

Forensics Europe Expo – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights from the Forensics Europe Expo which took place at Kensington Olympia Conference Centre, London, on the 19th-20th of April 2016. Conference Highlights  The Forensics Europe Expo covers all aspects

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Can you help with this iPhone extraction in which a deleted SMS has a future timestamp? What happens to data on a backup tape when it is

Current Challenges In Digital Forensics

What is the most urgent question facing digital forensics today? That in itself is not a question with a straightforward answer. At conferences and in research papers, academics and forensic practitioners around the world converge to anticipate the future of

Current Challenges In Digital Forensics

What is the most urgent question facing digital forensics today? That in itself is not a question with a straightforward answer. At conferences and in research papers, academics and forensic practitioners around the world converge to anticipate the future of

Arsenal Reveals Sophisticated Evidence Tampering Involving Turkish Journalists

Arsenal Consulting President Mark Spencer’s article in Digital Forensics Magazine (Issue 27, published May 1) describes how his firm uncovered evidence tampering which led to the wrongful imprisonment of Turkish investigative reporter Baris Pehlivan and his colleagues at Odatv. Odatv

SSD and eMMC Forensics 2016 – Part 2

In the first part of this article, we reviewed different kinds of the most commonly used modern SSDs (M.2, PCI-E, NVMe devices) and talked about acquisition of these devices. In this part of the article, we will talk about external

SSD and eMMC Forensics 2016 – Part 2

What Has Changed in 2016 in the Way SSD Drives Self-Destruct Evidence. Demystifying eMMC, M.2, NVMe, and PCI-E. by Yuri Gubanov, Oleg Afonin © Belkasoft Research 2016 In the first part of this article, we reviewed different kinds of the

The Investigative Challenges Of Live Streamed Child Abuse

Among the challenges facing digital forensic investigators today, the instantaneous nature of online communication is arguably one of the most persistent. Trying to investigate whether a crime has occurred, and if so to bring its perpetrators to justice in a

The Investigative Challenges Of Live Streamed Child Abuse

Among the challenges facing digital forensic investigators today, the instantaneous nature of online communication is arguably one of the most persistent. Trying to investigate whether a crime has occurred, and if so to bring its perpetrators to justice in a

Man Jailed For Failing To Decrypt Hard Drives

A man has been held in prison for seven months after failing to decrypt two hard drives that investigators suspect contain indecent images of children. A court order says the man will remain jailed “until such time that he fully

Webinar: Data Visualisation: The Step Forward For Digital Forensics

A recording of the webinar “Data Visualisation: The Step Forward For Digital Forensics” is now online and available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here.