As part of my third year studying Digital Security,Forensics & Ethical Hacking at GCU, I took part in a group research project to study the artifacts created when using the notes app on an iPad Mini, and if they could … Read more
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Retrieving Digital Evidence: Methods, Techniques and Issues
by Yuri Gubanov [email protected]
Belkasoft Ltd. http://belkasoft.com
Abstract
This article describes the various types of digital forensic evidence available on users’ PC and laptop computers, and discusses methods of retrieving such evidence.
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Introduction
A recent … Read more
Mobile Phone Forensic Challenges
Introduction
A great number of the mobile phones used worldwide every second require special knowledge and skills from forensic experts. More often it is not enough to be an experienced expert in computer forensics to understand all the peculiarities and … Read more
Firefox Cache Format and Extraction
Introduction
In the forensic lab where I work, we frequently investigate malware-infected workstations. As our user population started shifting from Internet Explorer to Firefox, we observed that one of our favorite forensic tools, Kristinn Gudjonsson’s log2timeline, wasn’t able to provide … Read more
Forensic Imaging of Hard Disk Drives- What we thought we knew
By Todd G. Shipley and Bryan Door
(A complete copy of this white paper and its figures and diagrams can be found at www.nfdrtc.net).
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT
Imaging of hard drives has been the main stay of … Read more
Data Recovery Handling Tips & ESD Precaution
First published April 2005
by ActionFront Data Recovery Labs
www.ActionFront.com
Data Recovery Handling Tips & ESD Precaution
Mishandling is a leading cause of hard disk drive failure.
ESD (Electrostatic Discharge)
A familiar form of Electrostatic Discharge, often called “static electricity”, … Read more
Beware Do-it-Yourself Data Recovery Solutions and Products
First published April 2005
by ActionFront Data Recovery Labs
www.ActionFront.com
Do-It-Yourself data recovery software may complicate your problems and diminish the prospects of a successful recovery.
The object of many fix/doctor/repair programs is to try to make the drive, file-system … Read more
Recovering unrecoverable data – the need for drive-independent data recovery
First published March 2005
by Charles H. Sobey, Chief Scientist of ChannelScience
[Note from Jamie Morris, Forensic Focus – In February 2005 Nick Majors of ActionFront Data Recovery Labs Inc. happened to post a link in the Forensic Focus forums… Read moreHard Drive Crash? The Essential Data Recovery Report
First published January 2005
by Greg Duffield
Your worst nightmare just became a horrifying reality. You keep hearing that little voice in your head mockingly shout “you should have backed that stuff up” The voice keeps echoing throughout your head … Read more