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AccessData have released a white paper discussing the regulations applicable to UK pharmaceutical companies, and their relevance for ediscovery. In the first case of its kind, a judge in Ohio has ruled pacemaker data admissible in an arson investigation. Registration

AccessData just released a new white paper that discusses the growing litigation risks and regulatory pressures on UK pharmaceutical companies and the need for technology solutions to e-discovery. The management of electronic data is a complex and time-consuming challenge for

An Ohio judge has ruled that data from a pacemaker can be used in court. Defendant Ross Compton, who faces aggravated arson charges, claims he was woken by a fire at home, packed a case, broke a window and threw

Jenny Johnstone of Vancouver, BC, a consultant and former criminal intelligence analyst with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, has joined the Board of Directors of Micro Systemation Canada, Inc. (MSAB), the company announced Monday, July 17. “Jenny’s experience in Canadian

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members help a newbie with social media forensics. How can you tell when a hidden partition was created? Is the BIOS date a reliable way of

From the 18th to the 20th of September, the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference will be taking place in San Antonio, Texas, USA. If there are any topics you’d particularly like to see covered, or any speakers you think

BlackBag Technologies releases MacQuisition™ 2017 and continues to offer the leading and most advanced forensic imaging software for Mac OS X and macOS. MacQuisition™ is a powerful, 3-in-1 solution for live data acquisition, targeted data collection, and forensic imaging. Forensic

New Webinars this Summer on Android Recovery and Griffeye Integration The lazy hazy days of summer aren’t going to be very lazy or hazy around Magnet Forensics. This summer is going to be jam packed with insight and help for

Jad, will you introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about who you are, what you do, and how you got here? Sure. My name is Jad Saliba, I’m the founder and CTO of Magnet Forensics. Who I am –

Forensic Focus was recently voted the top digital forensics blog of the year by participants in the Forensic 4:cast award. Other winners included Magnet Forensics, who picked up the award for Digital Forensic Organization of the Year, as well as

XRY v7.4 enables extraction of location data from drones, and brings you a significant increase in data recovery with the new Android exploit.Extraction of Apple iOS Push Notifications supported Apple Push Notifications is used for apps to signal to the

First of all, when did you start in this field? I started in the field of computer forensics when I was in college. But I started with Guidance about 13 years ago, in 2003. I’ve had many roles at Guidance.

by James Zjalic The subject of authentication is important across the entire digital forensic field and we as examiners have various weapons at our disposal in which to defend against the onslaught of manipulators, liars and charlatans. Authentication is frequently

Tell us a bit about your role and what a typical day in your life looks like. In 2006 Guidance had this new product research team that I was recruited into that was doing forward thinking research, new product launches,

Magnet AXIOM 1.1.2 is now available — bringing with it enhanced integration with Griffeye and Project VIC, as well as significant developments in mobile acquisition, Portable Case, and BitLocker decryption. Enhanced Integration with Griffeye and Project VICAs we recently announced,

With the 6.3 million apps available to a user and only ~ 400 apps fully decoded by any advanced mobile forensic solution, Oxygen Forensics had to come up with a solution that can help the examiner to parse and analyze