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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

Kamil, you’re currently an independent consultant in digital forensics – can you tell us more about your work and how you first became interested in the field? My independent consulting has, to date, been predominantly in the fields of information

Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics, writes: We’re pleased to announce a new free tool and a guest blog post from James Morris of the Queensland Police Service in Australia. James came to me with a request to

Australian software company GetData Forensics adds Volume Shadow Copy analysis to Forensic Explorer. “Volume Shadow Copies are a potential gold mine for the forensic investigator” said GetData Managing Director John Hunter. “Until recent times they have often been overlooked due

As of January 2013, Apple announced it had sold over 500 million iOS devices. While iOS seems to be the leading operating system for tablets worldwide, Android continues to be the leading operating system for mobile phones worldwide. Regardless of

Jim, please tell us a bit about yourself and your background before joining Cellebrite. I´ve been involved in the wireless industry as an executive for over 20 years, both on the carrier side and the vendor side. Prior to Cellebrite,

The UK must do more to stop online fraud and deter state-sponsored cyber-espionage or risk losing the fight against e-crime, MPs have warned. The Home Affairs Select Committee said much low-level internet-based financial crime was falling into a “black hole”

Your paper “The ‘Inverse CSI Effect’: Further Evidence from E-Crime Data” has recently been published in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. Could you give us a brief overview of the topic, and your main findings? I’m

A British-based computer scientist has been banned from publishing an academic paper revealing the secret codes used to start luxury cars including Porsches, Audis, Bentleys and Lamborghinis as it could lead to the theft of millions of vehicles, a judge

The government plans to “drain the market” of child sexual abuse images online by launching a campaign with the police and internet companies to pursue both the publishers and those who access the material, David Cameron has said. The prime

Google Glass, the voice-controlled glasses that act as a wearable computer, recently became available to a handful of initial testers. After participating in an application process and submitting a proposal on how I would use the product, I was selected

“I recently received a few questions about the effects of running Internet history sanitation tools such as CCleaner, when examining a computer looking for internet related artifacts. CCleaner is freely available online and commonly used to ‘sanitize’ user activity. From

In 2009, Lima became an essential part in the Digital Forensics industry, becoming integral for a vast number of digital forensic organisations aligning organisation to international standards ISO9001, ISO27001, ISO17025 and more recently ISO27037. Earlier this year, IntaForensics listened to

Criminals value the unlimited freedom and anonymity that they get on the Internet. But cybercops and digital forensic experts are working to change that. We are used to seeing police officers doing street patrols. And the Internet is no different

In March 2013, Facebook reportedly had just over 1 billion users worldwide. Founded in February 2004, it can be considered one of the grandfathers of social networking. Nearly ten years later and even with hundreds of other social networking sites