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Finding hidden data in mobiles and apps becomes more troublesome every day. Learn how to use DS to process mobile devices including smartphones, tablets etc. with full analysis and reporting. Join Amber Schroader from Paraben Corporation as she demonstrates the

Oxygen Forensics has released a major update to its flagship mobile forensic solution, Oxygen Forensic® Suite. Version 7.0 offers Android file carving, enables support for Call Data Records received from wireless service providers, and acquires data from Windows Phone 8.x

During the first week of December 2014, Guidance Software ran a computer forensics training course at its Slough offices in the UK, with the aim of helping forensic practitioners to understand and use EnCase as part of their investigations. The

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss how to recover data from a gas pump skimmer. Is it possible to recover data from an iPad that has been reset, without access to

By Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics It’s not an issue many like to talk about, or perhaps even know about. But child sex slavery is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in the world. A perverse

Finding a balance between comprehensive forensic exams vs. targeted analysis is becoming increasingly difficult as data storage continues to grow on an average system. Learn how to use P2C to process terabytes of data or use its specialty analysis engines

Mark Stokes, head of digital and electronics forensics services at the Met Police, keynote speaker at the (ISC)² EMEA Congress in London on Tuesday, detailed the techniques and technologies used to forensically investigate criminals who, he says, are increasingly reliant

The collection of volatile data has become an essential component of a forensic examiner’s processes. While traditional forensic practices have always focused around avoiding any modification of evidence in order to preserve the integrity of the data, this is no

Data Specialist Group has created a self-extraction kit that includes an SD card pre-loaded with AccessData’s MPE+ dSOLO Android collection capability. dSOLO gives the end user the ability to extract data onsite from any Android smart phone, utilizing just a

AccessData’s Forensic Toolkit 5.6 software upgrade is now available. Improvements: – System Information tab allows you to view system information that contains detailed information about disk images in an easy to read format. – Entity Extraction processing options to identify

New with Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.5, Magnet Forensics has added support for a number of native and third-party apps for Windows Phone. Using JTAG and Chip-off techniques, forensics examiners can use IEF to recover call logs, SMS/MMS, emails, and

“Digital forensics is at a time of crisis and a time of opportunity.” This remark from Eoghan Casey, lead cybersecurity engineer at the MITRE Corp., highlighted the overarching themes presented at the first day of the National Institute of Standards

Oxygen Forensics releases Oxygen Forensic Viewer, a stand-alone tool for viewing and sharing information collected with Oxygen Forensic Suite. Fast, easy and lightweight, Oxygen Forensic Viewer allows accessing the complete set of evidence, analyzing deleted data, examining suspects’ communications and

Date/Time: Tuesday December 16th, 2014 @ 10:00 am EST (3pm GMT) The usage of location-based mobile dating applications like Tinder and Grindr has exploded over the last year. This new class of mobile app allows singles to identify, chat with,

This framework was first introduced in DFRWS EU 2014 (the first DFRWS conference in Europe) at Amsterdam held in May and later presented at Hacks in Taiwan 2014 (HITCON) which is a high-tech security conference in Taiwan held in August.

On the 14th-17th of October 2014, Magnet Forensics ran its first remote training course on the essential knowledge required to properly use Internet Evidence Finder, Magnet’s flagship software solution. The course was set up with the aim of aiding digital