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You’re an active member of the Forensic Focus forums. How did you become interested in digital forensics? My interests are oriented towards OS booting, filesystems and data recovery. These fields are of course closely linked to digital forensics. I was

A wireless Access Point (AP) is a device that allows wireless devices to connect to internet using Wi-Fi. With the remarkable increase in number of wireless devices the number of APs has also increased drastically to serve the Wi-Fi needs

This blog post is the final in a three part series that discusses the privacy modes of the three major web browsers and what implications they have on digital forensics. You can see the original post for Internet Explorer here,

This study investigated whether deviant pornography use followed a Guttman-like progression in that a person transitions from being a nondeviant to deviant pornography user. In order to observe this progression, 630 respondents from Survey Sampling International’s (SSI) panel Internet sample

A geo-tagged image is an image which holds geographical identification metadata. This data consists of latitude and longitude co-ordinates (sometimes altitude also). Though there are some extremely powerful tools available for extracting geo-tag information from geo-tagged images but the insight

If you are like many digital investigators, you’ve heard about the Autopsy™ digital forensics tool and associate it with a course that used Linux to analyze a device. Or, maybe you associate it with a book that made references to

Between the ongoing revelations about NSA surveillance and the usual drumbeat of security warnings about everything from Android smartphones to cars, it’s a good time for a primer on what’s actually going on. This slim volume — in an All

Megan Meier was just twelve years old when the events began that would ultimately lead to her death. Like many teenagers, Megan had accounts on common social networks, including MySpace, where she first met “Josh Evans”. Ostensibly a sixteen-year old

Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, announced it has promoted key executives Jim Kent and Deborah Baron as part of a significant realignment of the company’s resources. The company has created four dedicated business units: Information Governance and

Are digital images submitted as court evidence genuine or have the pictures been altered or modified? We developed a range of algorithms performing automated authenticity analysis of JPEG images, and implemented them into a commercially available forensic tool. The tool

by Igor Mikhaylov For the last few years we have successfully extracted data from various mobile device, such as cell phones, smartphones, tablets, etc. Among devices to be examined, we came across defective mobile devices (damaged mechanically, by fire or

Your research focuses on the relationship between personality and deviant computer use. How did you become interested in this as a topic? This question is always the first thing people ask me – It’s as if they want to know,

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums IOS forensic acquisition tool Waterboard is causing controversy, both for its name and its claims of acquiring cellular data. A BBC article about the “chaotic forensic landscape” provokes

Lance Mueller of Magnet Forensics earlier posted an article on iOS forensics detailing common steps and details of an examination of an iOS device, and how IEF can be used once you have that physical image or file system dump.

BlackBag Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of forensics software and training solutions, today announced the immediate availability of BlackLight 2013 R2, a comprehensive iPhone, iPad, Mac OS X, and Windows forensic analysis tool. This latest release includes improved data search