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DFRWS EU – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights from DFRWS EU which took place at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, from the 29th-31st of March 2016. Conference Highlights  The conference began with a discussion of virtual currencies

NAS Forensics Explained

by Oleg Afonin, Danil Nikolaev & Yuri Gubanov © Belkasoft Research 2015 Network Attached Storage (NAS) have a long track history of corporate deployments. Their scaled-down versions (ranging from single-bay to four-drive enclosures) are frequently used at homes and in

DFRWS Europe 2015 Annual Conference – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) held in Dublin from the 23rd – 26th of March 2015. Over the next few weeks Forensic Focus will also be bringing

Extracting Evidence from Destroyed Skype Logs and Cleared SQLite Databases

Summary This article describes common approaches used for the recovery of cleared Skype histories and deleted chat logs, and discusses methods and techniques for recovering evidence from cleared and damaged SQLite databases. Introduction It is difficult to underestimate popularity of