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Reviewed by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus Any book that begins with a foreword by Eoghan Casey is almost guaranteed to be a vital and immensely useful read in the field of digital forensics, and Practical Forensic Imaging is no

John, you're Executive Chairman at X1 Discovery. Tell us a bit about your role – what does a day in your life look like? This is an exciting time in the eDiscovery and computer forensics field, given all the legal

by Robin Brocks, IT Forensic Expert and Incident Responder Only a few years ago, it was a real pain creating a portable Windows on CD/ DVD or thumb drive, because the Operating System was not prepared to run on those

In 2016, Magnet Forensics produced eight webinars covering topics like smartphone extraction, analyzing evidence in child exploitation cases, and Android Marshmallow forensics. One webinar in particular provided a deep dive into our artifact creation tools – Magnet AXIOM’s Custom Artifacts

Oxygen Forensics, the worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices and cloud services, announced today that it has expanded the number of sources from which it gathers vital evidence by adding data extraction from

To mark a very successful year for the company, CEO Yuri Gubanov presents a recap of the articles, product releases, events and more which have defined Belkasoft in 2016. Articles A series of articles on SSD and eMMC forensics, covering

by ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. If you’ve been following the news, you may already know about the many cases where companies, big and small, were caught spying on their users. It might appear that just about everyone making a phone or

US police investigating a murder have tussled with Amazon over access to data gathered by one of its Echo speakers. The voice-controlled device was found near to a hot tub where the victim was found dead amid signs of a

A recording of the webinar “Sneak Peek Into Belkasoft Evidence Center v.8.3” 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.

Why work for Belkasoft? We are smart and humorous; we have a great product, used in 70+ countries all over the world; we are growing quickly and love our work. Our tools help police and other LE organizations to make

by W.Chirath De Alwis, School of Computing, Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, Colombo, Sri Lanka Cyber security threats on sensitive resources have increased recently and it has increased the need for digital forensic analysis tools. Digital evidence can be

Call logs, SMSes, emails, social networks communications and, of course, chats in instant messengers can give you a lot of important information in a course of a forensic investigation. Let’s see how one single chat product can be examined from

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss how to extract data from a device with a faulty USB connection. What is the most forensically sound way to acquire RAM on a

Oxygen Forensics, the worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices and cloud services, announced today that it is teaming with Passware Inc. to provide customers the ability for instant extraction of iOS Photo Stream

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. updates Elcomsoft Phone Breaker, the company’s mobile acquisition tool. Version 6.30 gains the ability to extract information about the user’s recent Web browsing activities, notes and calendars from the cloud. In contrast with cloud backups, this information

A recording of the webinar “Acquiring Removable Drives, Mobile Devices, RAM And Cloud Storage” 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.