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A recording of the webinar “Mobile Chat And Social App Forensics” is now online and available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript here.

On the 29th of June, Microsoft announced the release of Windows 10, so it is time to have a deeper look at this new Operating System from the perspective of an Incident Responder. To make it easier for you to

A little-known feature of the HTML5 specification means that websites can find out how much battery power a visitor has left on their laptop or smartphone – and now, security researchers have warned that that information can be used to

Digital Forensics will be a featured topic at (ISC)²’s Security Congress 2015, Sept. 28th-Oct. 1, in Anaheim, California. The conference offers four full days of educational sessions on a range of critical information security issues, including malware, cloud security, governance,

Keith, please tell us about your role as EVP of Sales and Marketing at AccessData. What does your day-to-day work entail? Customer service is my key priority. I spend a great portion of my day listening to customers, understanding their

Network Attached Storage (NAS) have a long track history of corporate deployments. Their scaled-down versions (ranging from single-bay to four-drive enclosures) are frequently used at homes and in offices. These smaller-size appliances are often called “personal clouds” for providing some

by James Gratchoff & Guido Kroon, University of Amsterdam Project Spartan is the codename of the new Microsoft Edge browser and successor to its previous, Internet Explorer. This research paper gives insight into the current artefacts that the current development

On the 22nd of September 2015, Forensic Focus will be attending the FT Cyber Security Summit in London. If there are any topics you’d specifically like us to cover, or any speakers you think we should interview, please let us

Date: Thursday, July 23, 2015 Registration: http://www.magnetforensics.com/mobile-forensics/mobile-chat-social-app-forensics Presenter: Tayfun Uzun, Product Manager at Magnet Forensics Smartphone apps that allow users to express themselves by messaging, posting, tweeting, liking, commenting, and sharing images and videos, have radically altered communication patterns. This

A great amount of legal and forensics discussion is involved when there is an investigation procedure that involves the seizing of crucial evidence from Live Exchange server. Whenever there is such an investigation, two things remain in focus 1. Identification

Guidance Software, Inc. is pleased to introduce Tableau Password Recovery, a powerful solution that accelerates dictionary-based and brute force password attacks to unlock protected files. By helping investigators access encrypted and locked files, the appliance expedites time-sensitive investigations and prevents

Belkasoft updates Belkasoft Evidence Center, the company’s flagship digital forensic solution, to version 7.3. The new release comes with significant improvements to file carving and SQLite analysis algorithms as well as the search engine. With this update, Belkasoft Evidence Center

This week, law enforcement and judicial authorities worldwide have taken down the most prolific English-speaking cybercriminal forum to date: Darkode. In an international coordinated action against the hacking forum and its users, investigators from all over the world targeted cybercriminals

Nuix, a technology company that enables people to make fact-based decisions from unstructured data, today announced it has appointed Paul Slater as Executive Director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Slater will be an ambassador and subject

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss password retrieval using EnCase. How would you recover data from a ciphered NTFS after a reinstall of Windows? What has been your experience of forensic

ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company announces that they have completed the research devoted to determining the reliability and accuracy of various file metadata like creation, modification, and access timestamps in modern filesystems using copy-on-write (CoW).Old filesystems like NTFS, FAT, and EXT,