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by Michael R. Godfrey The μTorrent software client is the most popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer software application worldwide. Contraband files such as copyrighted movies and music, child pornography and pirated content, are frequently acquired through the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol

Providing a better solution for all types of digital evidence, E3 Platform is a comprehensive digital forensic tool designed to handle more data, effectively and efficiently. The version 2.0 of the E3 Platform has only enhanced these capabilities with key

Getting evidence from confiscated media devices has always been a challenge. Not only because of the difficulty in locating all the right data, but also because of the manual labor of exporting and importing the data once it’s found. To

Vassil Roussev discusses Christopher Stelly's research at DFRWS EU 2018. One of the long-standing conceptual problems in digital forensics is the dichotomy between the imperative for verifiable and reproducible forensic computations, and the lack of adequate mechanisms to accomplish these

Magnet AXIOM is an all-in-one digital forensics tool that lets examiners analyse evidence from both computer and mobile devices in the same case. Some of the latest features, along with points of comparison with Magnet’s Internet Evidence Finder, are outlined

MSAB today announced the appointment of Randy Whitcroft to lead its sales efforts in Canada. “I am excited to represent MSAB in Canada. My role will be to help current and future MSAB customers improve their mobile forensic operations and

AccessData Group today announced that three industry veterans have joined the company in various client services leadership positions to assist customers in both the public and private sectors. “We pride ourselves on being able to deliver what our clients need.

Susteen is proud to announce that our Burner Breaker pincode/passcode/pattern breaking system, which achieved Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New” award in the category of Innovations in Security now includes our cutting edge field acquisition device. The Burner Breaker continues

It’s the last week of submissions for the DFRWS EU 2019 call for papers. The Passware Kit Forensic tool from Passware has introduced the ability to recover Bitcoin wallet passwords. A post on Initialization Vectors demonstrates how to perform digital

BlackBag Technologies is proud to release Mobilyze 2018 R2 with additional iOS and Android support. Mobilyze makes triaging mobile devices easy with an interface that lets you go straight from acquisition to a well-formatted report. Sometimes small adjustments need to

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. What is anti-forensics, how can we prove its relevance to an investigation, and how much of a challenge is it to the industry? Add your thoughts in

In the recently published survey by Forensic Focus, it was the volume of digital data per case that was named one of the biggest challenges facing forensic examiners these days. Over 23% of respondents agreed that this, along with the

Sheldon, you're VP of Sales at BlackBag. Tell us about your role: what does a day in your life look like? At BlackBag, I am responsible for the revenue of the entire company. I plan and work with several other

by Chet Hosmer, Joshua Bartolomie and Rosanne Pelli Reviewed by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus Ensuring the integrity of evidence is one of the most important parts of the digital forensic investigation process, and yet according to some reports it

Email evidence often plays a pivotal role in digital forensics investigations and eDiscovery. When preserving emails from the cloud, forensics experts have to consider issues such as multi-factor authentication, running-in-place searches on the server before the acquisition, handling server errors

by Angus M. Marshall & Richard Paige During a project to examine the potential usefulness of evidence of tool verification as part of method validation for ISO 17025 accreditation, the authors have examined requirements statements in several digital forensic method