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Digital Forensics Round-Up, January 04 2024

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Police ‘investigate sexual abuse of young girl’s avatar in the metaverse’ – prompting NSPCC warning The NSPCC has said companies “must act now” as police reportedly investigate a case where

Digital Forensics Round-Up, December 28 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Cars have become computers on wheels — and police have easy access to their data The crime was horrific: In 2019, an Ohio man was accused of shooting his wife,

Digital Forensics Round-Up, December 21 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: The mental health of officials who regularly examine child sexual abuse material: strategies for harm mitigation The current study aims to better understand the mental health and subjective well-being of

iOS 17 Initial Access Support For Magnet GRAYKEY And Magnet VERAKEY

Following closely on the release of Apple’s annual major iOS update, Magnet Forensics is thrilled to announce that Magnet GRAYKEY and Magnet VERAKEY support consent-based, full-file system extractions iOS Devices running Apple iOS 17—including the latest: iPhone 15. While iOS

Passware Kit 2024v1: Redesigned Distributed Password Recovery

Efficiently distributing password recovery tasks across high-performance hardware clusters stands out as a crucial feature that helps computer forensics decrypt electronic evidence in the shortest possible time. In its latest release of the year, Passware prioritizes the enhancement of this

Supercharge Your Investigations With Mobile Ultra

Investigative teams face a growing challenge in today’s fast-paced, data-driven world: how to keep up with the ever-increasing volume and complexity of digital evidence. The sheer volume of data stored on mobile devices, coupled with the sophistication of encryption and

Digital Forensics Round-Up, December 14 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Meta Plans to Add Encryption to Messenger, Stoking a Privacy Debate The move is part of an effort to make the app more like WhatsApp and iMessage. Law enforcement authorities

Focus Investigations With MITRE ATT&CK Insights

Integrate Automated Evidence Analysis and Mapping to Your Investigations Understanding an attacker’s behavior and their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) is vitally important to any investigation – it provides critical context that allows for more efficient and effective investigations. This

Amped Authenticate: Introducing The New Video Mode

Amped Software is pleased to announce a significant addition to their software for photo analysis and tampering detection, Amped Authenticate. With the latest update, they released the new Authenticate Video Mode. This feature marks an important expansion of their software’s

Digital Forensics Round-Up, December 07 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Dots do matter: Why dots in Gmail addresses impact Google Workspace investigations Dots don’t matter in Gmail addresses… if you’re sending or receiving emails to a Gmail address with a

Digital Forensics Round-Up, November 30 2023

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: File Timestamps for NTFS on macOS using Mountly This blog post will examine the NTFS file system being used on macOS with the Mounty driver, and the conditions that cause