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New investigation platform provides robust acquisition, examination, and sharing tools Today Magnet Forensics, a global leader in the development of digital forensic software, launched Magnet AXIOM, a complete digital forensics platform that builds on the processing power of Magnet IEF

What is the most urgent question facing digital forensics today? That in itself is not a question with a straightforward answer. At conferences and in research papers, academics and forensic practitioners around the world converge to anticipate the future of

The smartphone forensics landscape is changing, and examiners need to be smart with their budgets while also equipping themselves with the right tools to get the job done. Meet Magnet ACQUIRE, a free software solution that enables digital forensic examiners

BlackBag Technologies, Inc. invites visitors to explore the exciting new design of our website, launched Thursday, May 5, 2016. This new layout is intended to provide the best possible user experience with improved navigation and functionality throughout, allowing quick access

Global technology company Nuix today released version 7 of its patented processing engine, which extends the company’s big data capabilities to petabyte scale by giving customers the option of using Elasticsearch as the back-end database for Nuix case files. In

Arsenal Consulting President Mark Spencer’s article in Digital Forensics Magazine (Issue 27, published May 1) describes how his firm uncovered evidence tampering which led to the wrongful imprisonment of Turkish investigative reporter Baris Pehlivan and his colleagues at Odatv. Odatv

In the first part of this article, we reviewed different kinds of the most commonly used modern SSDs (M.2, PCI-E, NVMe devices) and talked about acquisition of these devices. In this part of the article, we will talk about external

We’re pleased to announce the latest version of BlackBag’s mobile device triage tool, Mobilyze 2016 R1! This newest release features Android 6.0 Marshmallow support and an updated drivers pack. In addition, BlackBag regularly maintains an online resources page for troubleshooting

Among the challenges facing digital forensic investigators today, the instantaneous nature of online communication is arguably one of the most persistent. Trying to investigate whether a crime has occurred, and if so to bring its perpetrators to justice in a

A man has been held in prison for seven months after failing to decrypt two hard drives that investigators suspect contain indecent images of children. A court order says the man will remain jailed “until such time that he fully

The first set of new MSAB Ecosystem products for mobile forensics have just been launched. The new MSAB Ecosystem is an evolution of the current products to adapt to the latest developments in digital forensics focused around the needs of

Sifting through data is a very time consuming process- the average US smartphone user takes up 10.8GB of storage capacity on their device*, and taking into account different data recovery options in UFED Physical Analyzer, this process may take up

A recording of the webinar “Data Visualisation: The Step Forward For Digital Forensics” 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.

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights from DFRWS EU which took place at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, from the 29th-31st of March 2016. The conference began with a discussion of virtual currencies by André

by Yuri Gubanov, Oleg Afonin This publication continues the series started with an article on SSD forensics we published in 2012. We investigated the issues of SSD self-corrosion, demystified trimming, garbage collection and data remapping. Two years later, we revisited

New end-to-end forensics solution will find even more evidence and enable more efficient investigative workflows Today at the ICAC Task Force 2016 National Law Enforcement Training on Child Exploitation, Magnet Forensics, a global leader in the development of digital forensic