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Behavioral-Based Forensics and Investigation Approach for Analyzing Attacks on Water Plants Using GANs

1st February 2022

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Hello. My name is Nataliia Neshenko. I am a PhD candidate in Florida Atlantic University College of Engineering & Computer Science working with Professor Fuhrt and in collaboration with Professor Bou-Harb from the University of Texas in San Antonio. Today,

Is More Efficient, Accessible Memory Forensics Possible?

31st January 2022

Christa: Memory forensics is a mainstay of incident response. Its relevance and necessity only growing with time, as encryption technology has become more integrated, especially in consumer devices. Yet memory forensics is neither intuitive nor simple. Looking to change that

Seance: Forensic Divination

28th January 2022

Hi everybody, my name is Ryan Maggio. I am a recent graduate from the Louisiana State University and today I’m going to be presenting a project called Seance that was worked on by myself, Andrew Case, Aisha Ali-Gombe and Golden

Detego Global’s Trevor Wooding on Investigative Challenges and How Detego’s Products Help Overcome Them

27th January 2022

Forensic Focus talks to Trevor Wooding, Detego’s Digital Forensics Consultant and Technical Director about his experience in lab-based investigations and training, the challenges faced by investigators, and how Detego keeps evolving their products to give customers an edge in the

What Do Incident Response Practitioners Need To Know? A Skillmap for the Years Ahead

26th January 2022

Okay, good afternoon. My name is Radek Hranincký. I’m currently finishing my PhD at Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic. And together with my colleagues from different corners of Europe, we made this paper called “What do incident

Register For Webinar: Grayshift Insights

25th May 202225th January 2022

As some of you may know, Grayshift recently celebrated its five-year anniversary. Since our inception, we have seen incredible growth with Graykey, which is now in use by over 1,000 law enforcement agencies and continues to be adopted globally. We are

Lecturer Jade James on Her DFIR Career Transition From Lab to Academia

24th January 2022

Christa: Among the many decisions a digital forensics professional will make in their career, whether to pursue a graduate degree is among the biggest. Costs in time, and sometimes money, factor in, as well as how a degree could shape your future.

Coffee Forensics: Reconstructing Data in IoT Devices Running Contiki OS

21st January 2022

Hi, my name is Jens-Petter Sandvik and I’m a PhD student at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU for short). In addition to trying to finish a PhD, I’m working for the Norwegian police in the national cyber crime

John Graham, Director of Sales and Business Development, Atola Technology

19th January 2022

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John, you will soon be celebrating your 10-year anniversary of working for Atola Technology. Tell us how the company has changed since you joined. Atola has grown incredibly since I started, from just a few people to now teams in

Time Well Spent: Precision Timing, Monotonic Clocks, and the PowerLogs Database for iOS

18th January 2022

Hello, and welcome to our talk on Time Well-Spent: Precision Timing, Monotonic Clocks, and the PowerLogs Database for iOS. As you might’ve guessed, we both work for Magnet Forensics, and this is the story of our research journey through PowerLogs

How Human Factors Confound and Enrich Digital Forensics: The November-December Research Roundup

17th January 2022

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Human complexity lies at the heart of so much of digital forensics – both the artifacts that offer insights into people’s motives, means, and opportunity to commit wrongdoing, and the investigations that reveal them. Our research roundup for the end

Be That Trusted Advisor

12th January 2022

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By Robert B. Fried, Senior Vice President, Sandline Global, Forensics & Investigations As forensic practitioners, we must do our best to stay ahead of ever-changing technology but sometimes we are thrown curve balls. For example, taking a trip down memory

The Potential of Digital Traces in Providing Evidence at Activity Level

11th January 2022

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Hello. My name is Hans Henseler from the University of Applied Sciences Leiden. I’m going to present about ‘The Potential of Digital Traces in Providing Evidence at Activity Level’. This presentation is based by work together with professional report. So

Magnet Forensics’ Stephen Boyce on Collaboration, Automation, and Developing DFIR Skills

10th January 2022

Christa Miller: As digital technology becomes more embedded into humans’ everyday lives, enhancing our efficiency at work, our social lives, even our health and movements, it likewise facilitates criminal activity. Growing in volume and complexity, technology thus ends up both

Duck Hunt: Memory Forensics of USB Attack Platforms

7th January 2022

Matthew: Welcome to our presentation. I’m Matthew Piscitelli. Tyler: And I’m Tyler Thomas. Matthew: And we performed memory forensics on USB attack platforms. This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant number 1921813. We looked at two USB attack

Investigate Media More Efficiently with Smarter Tools – From Magnet.AI to OCR

6th January 2022

https://youtu.be/ftA03vvWB1M Hey everyone, Trey Amick here. And today I’m going to highlight recent updates to Magnet AI for use in AXIOM and AXIOM Cyber. Examiners have long since wished for an easy way to remove icons and system images from