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BlackBag Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPad forensics software and training solutions, today announced the opening of its second U.S. office in Herndon, Virginia. The new office allows BlackBag to efficiently extend its reach

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Forensic tools against smartphones allow basic 4-digit phone passcodes to be bypassed in minutes. However, more complex passcodes are far more difficult to defeat and might even leave some information of seized Androids or iPhones outside the range of many

The research and development team at CCL-Forensics have upgraded the digital forensic software tool, epilog. Following comments and suggestions from epilog users, the team has made a number of changes, as well as adding new features. The upgrade improves the

Guidance Software Inc. has announced the availability of EnCase® Forensic version 7.03. The new software now includes a stand-alone evidence processor that increases forensic processing capacity because it doesn’t tie up an EnCase Forensic license. With the separate EnCase processor,

Voting for the 2012 Forensic 4cast Awards is now open. Each year the Forensic 4cast Awards aim to celebrate and recognize those in the field of digital forensics who dedicate themselves to making our lives a little easier. The whole

Belkasoft has released v.3.8 of their flagship product, Evidence Center 2012, featuring Encase v.7 integration. The integration module is free for existing customers. More details on v.3.8 here.

SubRosaSoft.com Inc. announces the newest version of their cross-platform live digital forensic field tool, MacLockPick 3.0. The new version offers improvements in iOS support, the addition of file and meta tag filters, upgraded application support, and more. MacLockPick 3.0 exploits

Logicube® Inc. and EDEC™ Digital Forensics have announced a technology partnership to integrate EDEC’s Tarantula™ into Logicube’s CellXtract® cell phone forensic platform. “We are very excited about our partnership with EDEC,” commented Farid Emrani, Executive Vice President and COO of

Social media evidence is highly relevant to most legal disputes and broadly discoverable, but challenges lie in evidentiary authentication without best practices technology and processes. This whitepaper examines these challenges faced by eDiscovery practitioners and investigators and illustrates best practices

Over the last several years, I’ve posted a handful of short blog entries about the topic of compelling a criminal defendant to surrender a passphrase to an encrypted volume or hard-drive. These entries concern the three cases of re Grand

BlackBag Technologies, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of BlackLight 2012 R1, a comprehensive iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS X forensic analysis tool. This latest release gives examiners additional ways to identify and locate important forensic evidence within large data

What’s new in v16.4? Performance A 64-bit edition of X-Ways Forensics and of the special WinHex version for licensed users of X-Ways Forensics is now available. You can simply add it to an installation of the 32-bit edition of X-Ways

Micro Systemation has just released its latest XRY forensic pack v6.2. The release includes enhanced physical extraction support for iOS & Android Devices, plus China Clone phones. One of the key new features is up to 4x faster dumping and

Belkasoft is extending their free license offer for two more weeks, offering free 6-month licenses for Evidence Center 2012 to eligible forensic and educational organizations. You may now get this product absolutely free, according to the offer at http://forensic.belkasoft.com/en/bec/en/free_evidence_center_for_le.asp, which

In this post, I will provide some initial impressions and findings. I do not endeavor to write a white paper, or to employ an industry standard, scientific methodology to evaluating the tool (if for no other reason than because I