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Warren Kruse, Vice President of Cyber Investigations, Consilio

9th August 2021

Warren, tell us about your role. I am Vice President of Cyber Investigations for Consilio, a global Legal Consulting and Services company. I assist clients of all sizes dealing with data forensics, electronic discovery and cyber review challenges. What are

Identifying Crypto API Usages In Android Apps Using A Static Analysis Framework

16th October 20219th August 2021

Daisuke Sumita: Hello, everyone. I’m Daisuke Sumita from the National Police Agency, Japan. Today I’m going to be presenting on identifying crypto API usages in Android apps using a static analysis framework. This is a joint research with Professor Kanta

Alberta Law Enforcement Unit Leverages OpenText EnCase To Significantly Improve Case Efficiency

6th August 2021

Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) turns to OpenText EnCase Forensic to close cases faster and prosecute more offenders. When child exploitation materials are uploaded to the Internet, websites often report those uploads to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in

Rob Fried, Senior Vice President, Forensics & Investigations, Sandline Global

5th August 2021

Let’s start with a little bit about you. What first brought you to digital forensics? While a student at the University of New Haven (UNH), majoring in Forensic Science, I enrolled in courses related to computer forensic investigation and information

Feature Extraction Of Protest Demonstration On Lihkg Discussion Forum

16th October 20214th August 2021

Ao Shen: Hi, I’m [inaudible] Ao Shen from the University of Hong Kong. This research is done by Dr. Dr K P Chow and me, and our title is Feature Extraction of Protest Demonstration on the Lihkg Discussion Forum. Here

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