Even as the world continues to evolve, humanity’s struggle against the threat of crime goes on. Human trafficking is one of the most horrifying, yet complex, areas in the criminal landscape. For centuries, this crime has threatened societies around the … Read more
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Falcon-NEO Digital Forensic Imager From Logicube
The first review of the Logicube Falcon®– NEO was performed in July 2018 and having successfully used the same unit in both an IT and forensic investigative environment since, it is time to update that assessment to include … Read more
Forensic Focus Legal Update September 2020: Evidence, Experts, And Due Diligence
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed many of the gears in justice systems the world over, as courts postponed jury trials, experimented with virtual juries and hearings, and weighed prison conditions against public safety.
Recap: Techno Security And Digital Forensics Conference Myrtle Beach 2019
by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus
The oldest of the trio of Techno Security and Digital Forensics Conferences, the Myrtle Beach event marked its 21st year this June 2-5. More than 900 people representing the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa converged … Read more
ICDF2C 2018 – Recap
This article is a recap of some of the main highlights from the ICDF2C conference 2018, which took place in New Orleans, LA, USA from the 10th-12th September.
The program began on Monday 10th September with the usual welcome registration. … Read more
Walkthrough: Oxygen Forensic Detective Latest Features
Within Oxygen, you’re able to not only connect one device, but several devices, and image them simultaneously. Oxygen’s extractor runs independently of Oxygen Detective, and that’s what allows you to run several different extractions at the same time, and there … Read more
Word Forensic Analysis And Compound File Binary Format
by Arman Gungor
Microsoft Word forensic analysis is something digital forensic investigators do quite often for document authentication. Because of the great popularity of Microsoft Office, many important business documents such as contracts and memoranda are created using Word. When … Read more
SSD and eMMC Forensics 2016
What Has Changed in 2016 in the Way SSD Drives Self-Destruct Evidence. Demystifying eMMC, M.2, NVMe, and PCI-E.
by Yuri Gubanov, Oleg Afonin
© Belkasoft Research 2016
This publication continues the series started with an article on SSD forensics we … Read more
Webmail Forensics – Digging deeper into Browsers and Mobile Applications
Almost everyone who uses the Internet has a web-based email account. Many people have two or more, so the likelihood of a forensic investigator coming across a case involving webmail communication is very high. While law enforcement examiners can ask … Read more
Analysis Of iOS Notes App
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
What are ‘gdocs’? Google Drive Data – part 2
Following up from the recent post on Google Drive, designed to give a high level introduction to the product, this post will delve a bit deeper into the technical issues relating to the data stored and also the best approach … Read more
What are ‘gdocs’? Google Drive Data
As “the Cloud” (a varied mix of internet based services ranging from web-based email accounts, on-line storage and services that synchronise data across multiple computers) becomes more relevant and the dominance of the PC or tablet as the exclusive “home” … Read more
Collecting and Processing Bloomberg Data
A few years ago, Bloomberg data may have been relatively unusual, however today we see Bloomberg chat and email data being collected quite frequently. Not a surprise really considering some of the headlines relating to certain Banks and Financial institutions … Read more
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. Â More often it is not enough to be an experienced expert in computer forensics to understand all the peculiarities and … 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