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Forensics Europe Expo is the only international exhibition and conference dedicated to forensic technology. The exhibition features over 80 world-leading suppliers of the latest forensic equipment around the world.The exhibition is free to attend and provides industry professionals and key

by James Billingsley Keyword searching is the primary tool investigators use to identify relevant evidence in a data set. However, poorly chosen keywords can miss important items or return too many irrelevant results. As data volumes grow, investigators must find

BlackLight 2016 R1 represents much more than new features and bug fixes. Our vision for BlackLight has always been a cost-effective forensic solution for law enforcement that just works. A solution that:– Analyzes 90% of your caseload (Windows, Mac, iPhone

by Shahaf Rozanski With there now being more mobile phones on the planet than people and smartphones set to achieve saturation in just 10 years, unlocking the data held on them has increasingly needed to be used as vital evidence

Syed, you're a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security and Forensics at Birmingham City University. Tell us a bit about your role: what does a typical day look like for you? The role of a university academic has tremendously grown in

MSAB have just launched a brand new Ecosystem to reflect the coming evolution of their digital forensic products, platforms and services. Over the next few months MSAB will be launching an exciting new range of solutions to meet the future

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Reviewer: Neil Beet, Blue Lights Digital The Cellebrite UFED Series has been our mobile device forensics product of choice over the past few years, both in the law enforcement environments we previously operated in, and now at Blue Lights Digital

Apple has hit back after a US federal magistrate ordered the company to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, with chief executive Tim Cook describing the demand as “chilling”. The court order focuses

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights from the SC Congress, held in London on the 10th of February 2016. The day began with a panel discussion of EU data protection legislation, and what businesses need

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members give their advice on investigating the contents of a DVR security camera system. Do you use password breakers in your investigations? Forum members discuss magnetic

Passware has recently released a new version of its flagship product – Passware Kit Forensic 2016.1, which supports shared dictionaries. What does this mean for corporations and forensic investigators? Large custom wordlists and even memory image files can be used

Reviewer: Richard Bunnell, Digital Forensics, LLC Executive Summary Lima Laboratory is an amazing product. If I was on a medium to large digital forensics team, I would not hesitate to recommend that this product be purchased and used. A good

There is an “overwhelming” amount of illicit and illegal content on the dark web, a new study shows. That statement might seem self-evident. But the Tor browser – also known as the dark web or deep web – was created

Two-factor authentication is probably the best secure thing since passwords were invented. Two-factor authentication goes a long way towards protecting one’s accounts against being hacked. A password alone, no matter how long or secure, is no longer enough to provide

Reviewed by Clark Walton In January 2014, I took both the Cellebrite Certified Logical Operator (CCLO) and Cellebrite Certified Physical Analyst (CCPA) trainings in a one-week course held in Washington, DC and taught by Cellebrite Certified Instructor, Joe Duke. The