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One feature enhancement in Magnet AXIOM that IEF users will appreciate is improvements in searching and filtering. In AXIOM, we’ve made searching and filtering almost instant. You can stack filters to help narrow your search criteria and swap out any

It’s October, haunting season. However, in the forensics world, the hunting of evil never ends. And with Windows 10 expected to be the new normal, digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) professionals who lack the necessary (memory) hunting skills will

Oxygen Forensics, the worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices and cloud services, announced today that it has added a Jet-Imager module to its Oxygen Forensic® Detective product that allows users to acquire data

by Yuri Gubanov, Oleg Afonin(C) Belkasoft Research, 2016 AbstractThis article was inspired by an active discussion in one of the forensic listservs. Original post was asking on how to fight with an argument “This is not me, this is a

Hibernation Recon Provides Digital Forensics Experts with Unprecedented Access to Hibernation Data Arsenal Recon, digital forensics experts building powerful tools to improve the analysis of electronic evidence, announced the formal release of Hibernation Recon today. Hibernation Recon extracts valuable information

Processing Times Reduced Dramatically in AXIOM 1.0.6 By Jad Saliba, Founder and CTO at Magnet Forensics Last week, we released Magnet AXIOM version 1.0.6. This update included a number of features and fixes, but one of the main goals was

BlackBag® Technologies’ premiere digital forensic software, BlackLight® helped put a man, convicted of possessing 450 child pornography images, behind bars. Marcel Cole Beuker, whose trial was held in March of this year, claimed the images found on a hard drive

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Can you help honor_the_data work out this USB storage timestamp anomaly? Forum members discuss iPhone 4S iTunes backup encryption. Should you apply for ISO/IEC 17020 and 17025

Oxygen Forensics, the worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices, announced today an agreement with the MITRE Corporation Technology Transfer Office that will make it possible for customers of Oxygen Forensics to take advantage

By Jamie McQuaid Most forensic examiners are familiar with seeing false positives in their search or processing results. False positives will always be present in tools that conduct some form of data carving in their searching and/or processing. I often

11 October9:00AM ET / 2:00PM UK / 3:00PM CEST Discussion Topics: – To some extent, the ubiquity of mobile devices—and many people’s use of them as their primary digital interface—has come in the aftermath of the first wave of standards

A recording of the webinar “How To Easily Break Pincodes / Passcodes / Patterns On Locked Android Phones” is now online and available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of

A recording of the webinar “Deep Diving for Forensic Gold – Applications and Deleted Data” 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.

Reviewed by K. Gus Dimitrelos CEO – Cyber Forensics 360 Opening the Oxygen Forensic Detective Dongle packaging I did not expect my forensics world of 20 years and counting to change so quickly. As a retired Secret Service agent, I

Belkasoft Evidence Center 2017 v.8.0 is released! In the new version: new free standalone and built-in acquisition tool, acquiring hard and removable drives, mobile phones and cloud data, analysis of social communications and communities detection, in-depth Volume Shadow Copy support,

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss the detection and analysis of steganography. What would be your strategy for a large-scale investigation? Share your thoughts in the forum. What do you