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A partner recently commented to BlackBag Technologies that their digital forensic software ‘performed like a champ.’ The fact this partner, Bay Path University, is educating the next generation of digital forensic investigators, adds even more to the endorsement. BlackBag Technologies

by Patrick Siewert, Principal Consultant, Pro Digital Forensic ConsultingIt’s becoming common knowledge that location evidence on cellular devices can provide a wealth of evidence in any number of civil, criminal and investigative matters. Law enforcement agencies use cellular location evidence

How do you future-proof your investigative lab capabilities to handle the expanding complexity and volumes of digital evidence involved in cases today? During this session you will hear some ideas and concepts to help tackle this ever growing problem and

Thomas, tell us a bit about yourself – what's your background, what are you studying at the moment, and how did you become interested in digital forensics? I have always been interested in engineering, electronics, and computing from a young

This month, Jamie McQuaid, a Forensics Consultant at Magnet Forensics, looked at how F-Response and Magnet AXIOM can be used together to recover data remotely in enterprise investigations. In this three-part series, Jamie discusses how to establish a read-only, secure

Oxygen Forensics, a worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices and cloud services, can now parse and decode drone data from Phantom 3 and Inspire 1 drones manufactured by DJI.With over 770,000 registered drones

by James Zjalic Before CCTV systems were conceived, eye-witness accounts were the only method of identifying a suspect based on their facial features. The pitfalls of this type of identification have been well documented numerous times with regard to the

The Forensic Kill Chain: Often a military concept for the necessary elements for a successful victory in combat, but also used in the computer security model of cyber-attacks. The term can be used for both offensive and defensive missions, but

A recording of the webinar “Information Overload: Navigating Information Risk, Investigations & Privacy” is now online and available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here.

The Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in San Antonio, TX is fast approaching! Forensic Focus members can enjoy a 30% discount on the registration price using the code FOCUSTX17. HddSurgery have released new slim sets to deal with ultra

The Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in San Antonio, TX is fast approaching! The event will run from the 18th-20th of September 2017 and will be split into several tracks, including Forensics, Information Security, Investigations and Audit / Risk

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss how to use Kali to recover deleted files from an SD card. Can you suggest a good tool for cloud email forensics? How would

Seagate ultra slim drive is the newest generation of portable hard drives. Its very thin design, at just 9.6mm, a relatively large storage area, going up to 2TB, and a fast data transfer maximum of 120MB/s make it one of

Oxygen Forensics, a worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices and cloud services, announced today that it now supports data extraction from 40 different cloud services with the addition of Telegram cloud for its

AXIOM Cloud will Offer Data Extraction for Cloud-Based Services AXIOM to Become the Most Comprehensive, Integrated Digital Investigation Platform Magnet Forensics, a global leader in developing forensic software for digital examinations, has announced it will add support for cloud evidence

by Oleg Skulkin & Igor Shorokhov The release of Android Nougat has brought new challenges to mobile forensic examiners: the smartphones running this version most likely have encrypted partitions with users’ data, their bootloaders are locked and classic custom recovery