Forensic Focus

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part IX

This is the third part of “How to deal with Structured Data”. In case you missed it, the previous part is here. Picking up from where we left off… Step 3 Now that we have our formatted text files, there

Research Roundup: New Digital Forensic Insights And Opportunities

February’s research in digital forensics isn’t just about the papers presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)’ annual meeting, or those published in the various journals. Last month also saw new research opportunities, either for an impact study

How To Use Facial Recognition In Oxygen Forensic Detective

Hey everybody, time for a new knowledge nugget. This one is pertaining to facial recognition. We’ve just updated to 13.3 and there have been huge changes and improvements. Just watch. The first improvement that I want to show you would

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part VIII

This is the second part of “How to Deal with Structured Data.” In case you missed it, the previous part is here. Before I move onto transforming proprietary databases, let me add this point to packaged application data which I

Industry Roundup: Mobile Field Triage Solutions

The ability to collect digital evidence in the field — away from a forensic laboratory — has long been a need in corporate, private, and law enforcement investigations. That’s only accelerated over the past decade, as more people’s mobile devices

Santosh Khadsare, Cyber Forensics Expert, New Delhi, India

Mr Khadsare, you’ve worked in the cybersecurity and digital forensics field for about 20 years. How did you get into this line of work, and how have you seen the field in India evolve in that time? Well, I graduated

Virtual Forensic Computing (VFC) From MD5

In the pantheon of computer forensic analysis, practitioners are often faced with many problems that require innovative solutions. Every case or incident presents us with new challenges, new approaches, new work-arounds and new exploits. For many years, the practice of

Digital Forensics Research Looks To The Future

January was a somewhat light month in the way of digital forensics research publication, though the introduction of an Asia-Pacific (APAC) installment of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) conference more than made up for it. This month we feature

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part VII

Harold Burt-Gerrans talks about how to deal with structured data in ediscovery cases. I’m baaaaa–ack! And you thought I was done with my earlier six-part series, but I have a new topic toadd to my rants and raves. For review,

A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of Counter UAV Analysis

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are as fraught as they are fascinating. For every hobbyist flying a drone around the neighborhood on a sunny weekend, there is a neighbor concerned with whether a system’s onboard camera is spying on

Tom Cross, VFC Sales Manager, MD5

Tom, you’re VFC Sales Manager at MD5. Tell us about your role: what does a day in your life look like? A day in my life as VFC sales manager in a nutshell consists of me developing new and existing

Adapting Corporate Investigations Within A Pandemic

Alison: Hello everyone. Thank you for joining our webinar today. I’m Alison from the Magnet Forensics marketing team, and I’d like to be the first to welcome you to our session today with Trey Amick, manager of forensic consultants here