Webinar: Forensic Data Recovery with ReclaiMe Pro

A new webinar, “Forensic Data Recovery with ReclaiMe Pro”, is now available to view here. Description: Data recovery is an integral part of collecting digital evidence – the more data you extract, the more complete picture of your case becomes

Digital Forensic Evidence Uncovers Entry Point For Background-Check System Hack

Hackers broke into third-party software in 2013 to open personal records on U.S. federal employees and contractors with access to classified intelligence, according to the government’s largest private employee investigation provider. That software apparently was an SAP enterprise resource planning

Forensics Europe Expo 2015 – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Forensics Europe Expo (FEE) held in Kensington Olympia, London, on the 21st and 22nd of April 2015. Expo Highlights As an event that focuses on all aspects

Hex & Text Viewer Added to Magnet IEF

Every forensic examiner is familiar with hex and text viewers; they are the cornerstone of the most basic forensic examination. If all your tools and scripts fail or don’t support a given artifact, you can always fall back to a

Discover More Than 100 Mobile Artifacts with Evidence Center v.7.2

Belkasoft extends support for mobile applications in the new v.7.2 of its Belkasoft Evidence Center. In addition to more than half a thousand artifacts found inside desktop and laptop computers, which the software was able to analyze before, the new

Interview with Liwei Ren, Scientific Advisor, Trend Micro

Liwei, you're Scientific Advisor at Trend Micro. Could you tell our readers a bit about your role, and what an average day looks like? I have multiple responsibilities. Internally, I work with a few R&D teams as an adviser for

Magnet Forensics Releases Magnet IEF v6.6

Magnet Forensics, the global leader in the development of digital forensics software that recovers evidence from computers, smartphones and tablets, announced today the release of Magnet IEF v6.6. This release adds a number of new and advanced analysis features to

Capturing RAM Dumps and Imaging eMMC Storage on Windows Tablets

While Windows desktops and laptops are relatively easy to acquire, the same cannot be said about portable Windows devices such as tablets and convertibles (devices with detachable keyboards). Having no FireWire ports and supplied with a limited set of external

BitLocker experience (forum discussion)

Thought I'd share a recent experience. I'm an internal corporate resource in a team of one (i.e. me). We had to get images of a number of Win7 Enterprise machines, some from "close by" and some from another continent. Corporate

Interview with Mary Aiken, Cyberpsychologist, RSCI

Mary, you're currently Professor and Director at the RCSI's CyberPsychology Research Centre. Tell us a bit about your role and what a typical day looks like. I am a CyberPsychologist and Director of the RCSI CyberPsychology Research Centre, I am

TDFCon 2015 – Middlesbrough 15th May

On May 15th 2015, Forensic Focus will be attending TDFCon – the Teesside Digital Forensics Conference – at Teesside University, Middlesbrough. If there are any topics you would like us to cover in-depth, or if there are any speakers you

Nominate Your Peers! Secure View Gives Back

In honor of Thursday’s release of Secure View 4, Susteen will be donating Four free Secure View kits to Law Enforcement agencies in need. Secure View Advanced Mobile Forensic software can acquire data from thousands of phones with industry leading

ReclaiMe Introduces BTRFS Recovery

ReclaiMe – the only data recovery vendor providing BTRFS recovery BTRFS is a filesystem from Linux which has several distinctive features such as copy-on-write, checksumming, data scrubbing, and more. ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company integrated a new data recovery algorithm using

Webinar: Policing the digital crimes of today

Date/Time: Tuesday 5th May, 4pm BST/11am EDT Speakers: Paul Slater, Director of Forensic Solutions EMEA at Nuix and Troy Bettencourt, Sales Engineer NA at Nuix Investigators who are working with legacy digital forensic tools and faced with shrinking budgets often

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. How would you acquire data from a password protected MS Surface Pro? Forum members discuss malware risk mitigation on forensic workstations. How can a split E01 image of