Forensic Focus

How To Use The Magnet Web Page Saver

Hey everyone, Tarah Melton here, and today we’re going to walk through a workflow that you can use alongside a new artifact in AXIOM 4.4 that will help you present data output from Magnet’s free too, the Magnet Web Page

How To Find Location Data From Pictures In XAMN

Welcome to this XAMN feature demonstration video. In this video I will show the use of XAMN filters to find images containing location information, this being longitude, latitude or even both. I will also demonstrate how to create a pivot

Podcast: Lodrina Cherne On Diversity In Digital Forensics

Christa: When we talk about diversity in DFIR, are we referring to hiring people who look different from us, or do we also mean people who think differently? Welcome to the Forensic Focus podcast, where monthly we interview experts from

HTCIA Conference: September 28 – October 2

From the 28th of September to the 2nd of October 2020, the HTCIA conference will be running online. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any speakers you think we should interview, please let us

Remote Working Capabilities For Mobile Computers And Cloud Collections

Colleen: Hello and welcome to today’s webinar, Remote Working Capabilities For Mobile Computers And Cloud Collections. My name is Colleen Nugent and I’m part of the marketing team here at Cellebrite. And I’ll be facilitating today’s webinar.  Before we get

Somebody Else’s Hero: Mental Health In Digital Forensics

Impostor syndrome is a common topic on LinkedIn and other professional online career communities, but it seems especially poignant among digital forensics analysts, who frequently work 9-5 Monday to Friday viewing things that no human eye should ever have to

DFIRforGood Is A Great Start: Let’s Use It To Ask Tougher Questions

In recent weeks the DFIR community has increasingly begun to speak out under the hashtag #DFIRforGood following conference presentations by leaders in digital forensics and information security. In a keynote delivered at the SANS DFIR Summit in July 2020, Matt

Dealing With The Data Deluge In Law Enforcement

Eddie: Hello everyone and thank you for joining us. My name is Eddie Yandle, I’m Director of Marketing at Cellebrite. And we are here today for a discussion about dealing with the visual deluge in law enforcement. Today’s speakers will

Windows 10 Activity Timeline: An Investigator’s Gold Mine

Julie: Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining today’s webinar: Windows 10 Activity Timeline: An Investigator’s Gold Mine. My name is Julie O’Shea and I’m the manager of global marketing here at BlackBag.  Before we start today, there are a few things

Digital Forensics Standard-Setting: Summer 2020 Round-Up

The summer has been a busy one for standards-setting organizations in the United States and European Union: In the U.S., the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its final guidelines for cloud forensics, along with a document towards

Qualifying A Digital Forensic Expert In Court (Voir Dire)

Most digital forensic practitioners possess an analytical mind.  One of the reasons we become interested in the field is because we work to whittle down the digital elements of the case to try and present a clearer picture of the

Case Study: Digital Evidence Confirms Players In Major Bitcoin Heist

Traditional policework helped track down the thieves targeting cryptocurrency data centers in Iceland, but digital intelligence from one suspect’s mobile devices provided the proof of their involvement. Date: 2018Challenge: To connect six suspects to the theft of more than $2M

Digital Forensic Evidence And Artifacts: Recent News And Research

This month’s academic research reflects two aspects of the changing digital forensics industry: new ways to think not just about digital artifacts, but also about broader investigative processes — including interagency cooperation. This round-up article includes three open-access articles from

How To Bulk Tag Evidence With Nuix Investigate

Today I’m going to show you how to do a bulk tagging operation using Nuix Investigate 8.2.1. Here on the far left side – you can see we’re on our Cases landing page – we’re going to scroll down the