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The “Weapon of Choice” for Special Operations Digital Device Exploitation

3rd August 2021

Digital Exploitation complexities face the modern combat soldier (DOMEX/MEDEX MPE). This Special Ops Unit is charged with overseeing the various Special Operations Component Commands of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force. The Executive Office is responsible for the

Research Roundup: Problem Solving In Digital Forensics

2nd August 2021

Digital forensics research last month fell fairly neatly into two categories, each of which sought to solve bigger problems in the field. In the first category is ensuring quality via frameworks such as service levels, better supporting first responders, reporting,

XRY 9.4.3 From MSAB

28th July 2021

Hold the phone… and the drone, and the GPS device, and the disk! Upon receiving MSAB’s software product XRY v9.4.3 and its compatible viewer, XAMN v6.1, we had full intentions of pulling out and dusting off a few of our

Back On The Beach: Recapping Techno Security Myrtle Beach 2021

23rd July 2021

After a year so many spent cooped up in their homes, it seems only fitting that the first return to an in-person event should happen at a beloved vacation spot: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, site of the 22nd edition of

How To Use The Updated Oxygen Forensic SQLite Viewer

21st July 2021

Amanda: Hey everyone, It’s Amanda Mahan with Oxygen Forensics’ training team. Welcome back to Oxygen Forensic Detective’s weekly knowledge nuggets. This one’s going to be on our SQLite database viewer and our query builder that’s built into the tool. Hey

Forensic Focus Legal Update July 2021: Reliability And Credibility Of Digital Evidence

22nd February 202319th July 2021

This quarter’s edition of our legal update starts with a look at improving digital forensics experts’ credibility, as well as the reliability of the evidence they find — all while dealing with rapidly advancing technology. Two recent academic papers, plus

Register For Webinar: Selecting The Best Hardware-Based Forensic Imager To Streamline The Evidence Collection Process

15th July 2021

There are many considerations that discerning forensic investigators and forensic evidence analysts take into account in selecting the digital forensic imager suited for their applications. What are the factors that every expert-level user of digital forensic imagers should consider and

Research Roundup: New Tools And Techniques And Ensuring Their Quality

7th July 2021

The month of May saw a robust, diverse set of academic papers published. Tools and techniques are as present as ever — focusing that month on Windows 10 and mobile malware — but so are discussions about how to ensure

Automating And Sharing Digital Forensics Knowledge Through Hansken

2nd July 2021

What if you could automate digital forensics processes, centralize them, and then offer them at scale through the internet? Researchers at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) set out to answer the first question—then took the path through the second and

FTK Feature Focus: Optimizing Processing Options Part 2

30th June 2021

Justin Tolman: Episode five, and we’re already doing a sequel. We’re taking another look at optimizing our processing in FTK Feature Focus. Welcome back. This is episode five of Feature Focus. I’m Justin Tolman. I’m the Director of Training over

How To Speed Up Your Investigation With Enriched Timeline Capabilities

28th June 2021

Welcome to Binalyze AIR Feature Highlights. My name is Emre Tinaztepe, and today I will demonstrate the timeline feature of Binalyze AIR and the CSV import feature for further enrichment of this timeline. You can name many solutions that can

Nuix’s Aidan Jewell On Mac Forensics And Cross-Border Case Collaborations

14th October 202125th June 2021

Christa Miller: Solution consulting for a digital forensics vendor demands a deep knowledge, not just of digital forensics practice, but also of the people who are doing the practice. This month’s special vendor edition of the Forensic Focus podcast brings

Register For Webinar: Going on a Bear Hunt AKA A Safari Through Safari

9th September 202124th June 2021

With Apple’s Safari application typically taking the #2 browser spot worldwide across both computer and mobile platforms, examiners need to understand the how’s and the whys of Safari’s operation on both macOS and iOS. Is the information missing from the

FTK Feature Focus: Optimizing FTK Processing Options Part 1

23rd June 2021

Justin Tolman: If you or someone you love selects all the options in processing with FTK, so they won’t miss anything, then this episode’s for you! Episode four of FTK Feature Focus, we’ll come back to FTK Feature Focus episode

How To Detect Tampered Images On Social Media Via Shadows Analysis

21st June 2021

Image and video authenticity verification is one of the most prominent challenges nowadays in digital forensics. The rapid proliferation of all sorts of image manipulation software, together with the increasing popularity of deepfakes, make it so that seeing is no

AD Enterprise 7.4.2 From AccessData

18th June 2021

AD Enterprise allows investigators to collect, preserve and analyse data from various sources remotely from Windows and Mac computers, as well as to parse and review mobile data. As a holistic tool which encompasses many features, Enterprise at its core