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Christa: Hello and welcome to the Forensic Focus podcast. Monthly we interview experts from the digital forensics and incident response community on a host of topics ranging from technical aspects to career soft skills. I’m your host, Christa Miller. Today

The results are out. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has published its report on the performance of XRY 8.1.0 in recovering and analyzing mobile device data using JTAG and chip off methods. This is part of NIST’s

Francis, tell us about your product development role. Where did you work previously, and what drew you to Susteen? I always enjoy a good David versus Goliath challenge and have had the privilege over the last 25 years to work

by Christa Miller In the second half of 2019, a set of hirings made some waves in the digital forensics community. First, in July, Cellebrite hired well-known SANS Senior Instructor Heather Mahalik. Then in August, Mike Williamson joined Jessica Hyde,

by Oxygen Forensics What’s Checkm8? Checkm8 is an exploit (program exploiting OS or hardware vulnerabilities) aimed at obtaining access to the execution of its own software code at the earliest stage of iOS device loading. What makes it stand out?

by Jade James BlackLight is a simple but smart investigation tool which allows examiners to quickly analyse computer systems and mobile devices. Searching is made easy with advanced filtering to sift through large data sets. The tool is aimed at

Laura Sanchez discusses her research at DFRWS US 2019. Hello, I’m Laura Sanchez and I’m a graduate researcher at the University of New Haven. And I’ll be presenting the results of our survey that was conducted by my colleagues. Our

13Cubed share a memory forensics challenge. Petr Stuchlík discusses SMB endpoint fingerprinting. DFRWS share presentations from last year’s US conference. Ryan Benson shares some digital forensics writing tips.

Josh Hickman shares his research at DFRWS US 2019. Josh: My name is Josh Hickman. I am the forensic scientist manager for the digital evidence section in the North Carolina state crime lab. And I am here this morning to

by Oleg Skulkin & Svetlana Ostrovskaya Recently Microsoft finally released the Chromium-based version of Edge Browser, so it seems we’ll miss ESE databases soon (not). Of course, it may have a similar set of forensic artifacts to Chromium or Chrome,

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Pattern of life analysis isn’t a new concept to anyone who’s ever been involved with intelligence, in particular surveillance. It’s all about the habits that people — suspects, persons of interest, crime victims, or those

Magnet AXIOM 3.10 is now available for AXIOM users! Get Magnet AXIOM 3.10 today to acquire from Uber, get new timestamps in Google search URLs, as well get more than 20 updated artifacts. If you haven’t tried AXIOM yet, request

MacQuisition brings together the most comprehensive Apple imaging with new live and booted triaging of Apple devices, in industry-leading release.BlackBag Technologies, a Cellebrite company, announces the release of MacQuisition 2020 R1, adding triage capabilities to their industry-leading acquisition and forensic

For a project that promises great leaps in the development of mobile forensic related technologies, and a complete guide to the practices and standards that professionals in Europe should follow, the necessary training to support these initiatives is critical! That

By: Jeremy Byers, a police investigator in Australia This post was originally written and published on the MSAB blog I have been employed as a member of the Australian Federal Police and the South Australian Police since 2008. Most of

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Can you tell whether files have been copied from one USB to another? What temperature should your forensic lab be? How do you process large amounts of