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Oxygen Forensics has updated its flagship mobile evidence discovery solution, Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014, with more powerful visualizations, giving mobile forensic experts the widest range of updated analytic tools. The updated release offers extra visualization options. The updated map view

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems are all the rage at the moment – and with good cause. As you are all aware, one item of data does not a case make, it is the combination & correlation between

Sometimes when conducting forensic examinations, investigators can lose sight of the fact that they’re investigating the actions of a person, not a computer. Almost every event or action on a system is the result of a user either doing something

Nina, you’re currently doing a PhD in eLaw and teaching at the Cyber Security Academy (Cyber Forensics & Cybercrime and Law Enforcement). Could you tell us how you became interested in this area? I am a forensic criminologist and I

Paraben Corporation, a leader in the digital forensics industry, has announced the release of Device Seizure v6.66. The first commercial tool for mobile forensics is hitting mobile investigations with a vengeance. By adding support for nearly every smartphone available while

New with the Business and OS artifacts module in Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.4, Magnet Forensics has added a number of valuable Windows operating system artifacts that will help investigators gain insight into details about a system and its users.

Oxygen Forensics has updated its flagship mobile evidence discovery solution, Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014, adding physical acquisition support for MTK-based Android devices and introducing dual-joint logical acquisition support for all Android devices. The new release greatly simplifies the acquisition of

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss Chromebook forensics. How is computer forensics affected by the UTC+14 timezone? How can a forensic examiner identify whether Skype messages were sent from a desktop

With the release of IEF v6.4, Magnet Forensics adds to its list of Internet and mobile-supported artifacts, and introduces a new Business Applications and OS Artifacts Module to enable the recovery of more evidence with an IEF search. The Business

The internet trade in images that show child sex abuse is now “an epidemic”, according to the head of the global initiative to combat the problem. Police officers from around the world serve on the Virtual Global Taskforce. Its chairman,

A recording of last month’s webinar "Investigating Child Exploitation Cases – Getting to Critical Internet Evidence Faster with IEF" presented by Jad Saliba and Jamie McQuaid of Magnet Forensics is now online. View the webinar and read a full transcript

Martino, please tell us about your role as the Founder & CEO at Amped Software, and what led you to found the company. Amped Software was derived from my master thesis of Electronic Engineering at the University of Trieste, Italy,

Rapid growth of the usage of OS X has inspired forensic researchers to analyze devices such as the iPad, iPhone and Mac deeply. Therefore, OS X forensics, starting from Jonathan Zdziarski in 2008, became a very hot topic. However, most

C4All is a program used by law enforcement and others to categorize pictures and videos. This X-Tension is for Users of C4All. The guides that are included describe how to best use the X-Tension with the Strategy hash sets ,

The Town of Rocky Mount Police Department was presented with a “Cop in a Box” at the Altavista Moose Family Center in Altavista on Wednesday last week. The “Cop in a Box” laptop computer includes a U.S. Department of Justice-certified

Every time I am preparing for testimony at deposition or trial, I ask the attorney I am working for whether I should make it “easy” or “hard.” Even very experienced attorneys examining a technical witness often ask the wrong question.