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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,

Locked devices have been a longstanding issue for mobile examiners since the evolution of smartphone devices. More than 50% of devices seized by police are locked.* UFED User Lock Code Recovery Tool provides you with another solution to unlock the

EU law enforcement agency Europol has supported the Spanish police force in an effort to take down a cyber-crime group operating with a ‘sophisticated’ illegal call centre from Barcelona. Under a joint operation codenamed ‘Walker’, raids and arrests took place

Magnet IEF was named Computer Forensic Software of the Year, and Phone Forensic Software of the Year at the 2015 Forensic 4cast Awards. The awards were presented last night at the SANS DFIR Summit in Austin, TX. This is the

There are now more mobile devices than people in the world. When it comes to criminal investigations, they have become one of the most important pieces of evidence for investigators to help prove communications, associations and locations. As criminals find

In this article I will take you step by step through the process of creating a custom, but simple, report on a Kik messenger database using the Forensic Browser for SQLite. As we work through the process we will chose

Guidance Software, Inc. (GUID) has had its EnCase® software named “Best Computer Forensics Solution” at the 2015 SC Awards Europe Awards. Each year, hundreds of products are entered in the Excellence Awards: Threat Solutions categories. Each product is judged by

Introduction of the fluid bearings hasn’t completely eliminated all possibilities for the motor failures during HDD operation. Currently, the biggest problem in this area is the jammed spindle in the bearing housing. This defect occurs mostly due to shocks or

A recording of the webinar “Analyzing Evidence From Mobile Devices, Including Hidden 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 here.

A joint investigation team consisting of investigators and judicial authorities from six different European countries, supported by Europol and Eurojust, has taken down a major cybercriminal group during a coordinated action in Ukraine. With on-the-spot support from Europol, Austrian and