With in-person events making a cautious comeback this year in a pandemic-strained environment, attendance at the Forensic Europe Expo in June was perhaps a bit lower than might otherwise have been expected of a free event.

Still, the vendors who … Read more

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Frank: Warm welcome also from my side. This is a presentation or some work that I did together with Peter. He reached out to me. He is in the States and he reached out and said, “hey, I saw … Read more

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Today’s XRY 10.2.1 release brings remarkable extraction and decoding capabilities to more mobile devices, with the total number of supported devices exceeding 42,250, including over 4,200 app versions. Plus, improved Warrant Return support for Google, Apple, and Instagram.

The new … Read more

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Stephen Boyce: Welcome to the Magnet Virtual Summit 2022. We missed you in Nashville, but we’re glad that you’re here virtually. Today, I’ll be talking about the digital forensic and incident response digital transformation. Many of you in your … Read more

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We are glad to release a new episode of How to use MD-LIVE video.

In this 2nd episode of the

, you will learn useful features of MD-LIVE that can shorten your investigation time.

MD-LIVE … Read more

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Mark: Okay. Good afternoon. Welcome to the next full paper session. We have three papers for you in this session on forensic methods. So, Janine will start shortly with a paper on evidence tampering, we have a paper on … Read more

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Christa: This week on the Forensic Focus Podcast, our coverage of digital forensics issues across the world’s regions continues with Cindy Vazquez, owner of DGForensiks, a consultancy based just outside of Mexico City. We interviewed Cindy in late 2020, … Read more

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“Magnet AXIOM is a great tool when it comes to filtering in and filtering out the important data that investigators need to review, which really reduces the overall time to evidence.”

— Detective Chad Gish, CID, SISU, Metropolitan Nashville Police

… Read more

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ATLANTA – AUGUST 10, 2022 – Grayshift, LLC, a leading and trusted provider of mobile digital forensics solutions, today announced the promotion of David Scruggs from Vice President of Sales to Chief Revenue Officer. In his new role, he will … Read more

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August 9, 2022

Justin Tolman and Lynne Roossien invited John Price of the West Midlands Police to join them on an episode of FTK Over the Air, Exterro’s podcast. Police Investigations move to the Cloud is the 12th episode of … Read more

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Amped Software launches a new survey to understand what are the trends with video evidence and what is the state of video forensics in 2022. The survey is open to anyone working on image and video evidence (even occasionally) and … Read more

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Detectives Geane Godoi and Roberto Clamer, both from the Precinct for Repression of Organized Criminal Actions, of the Civil Police of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, used Oxygen Forensic® Detective in 2020 when putting together a car … Read more

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Christa Miller: As the cybersecurity talent gap continues to widen, a number of universities are developing programs to fill it. Among them is University College Dublin, which has just launched its brand new Master of Science in Cybersecurity program. … Read more

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Grayshift Introduces Reveal, the Industry’s First Cloud-Native Mobile Device Forensic Analysis Solution, and Delivers Powerful New Features in GrayKey

Grayshift, LLC has announced Reveal Early Access, an innovative, cloud-native digital forensics solution that dramatically accelerates digital investigations, streamlines the investigative … Read more

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Deep dive into ‘METADATA’

Hancom is glad to release a new whitepaper of ‘Metadata’, and hope this can help you to improve your forensic investigation skills.

This whitepaper focuses on the research of Metadata. We will use MD-RED and analyze … Read more

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In this paper, Kevin Lamshöft describes how researchers performed a threat analysis for a covert Command and Control (C2) channel using port scans as cover and syslog as carrier for data infiltration.

Session Chair: So, Kevin is presenting Knock, … Read more

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Starting with a physical crime scene – a fire – Manon Fischer describes how IoT devices such as “smart” plugs and thermostats store “distant traces” remotely, and could be used to help reconstruct a fire’s origin, cause, and timeline.

Session … Read more

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What’s new in Passware Kit 2022 v3: Recovery of deleted data for APFS images Decryption of QuickBooks for Mac 2022 databases GPU acceleration for bcrypt password recovery Updated password recovery for Acronis backups Password recovery for Dashlane for Mac Improved

… Read more

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In this short presentation, Trufflepig Forensics’ Aaron Hartel and Christian Müller present some early stage research about the volatility of data in memory as data structures change version to version.

Session Chair: We’re now going over to memory forensics … Read more

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Implementing the MSAB Ecosystem saved a UK Law Enforcement Agency £80K over three years The challenge

The use of digital evidence has significantly increased in the past few decades as the courts have increasingly started to accept digital files as … Read more

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