By Adam Belsher, CEO of Magnet Forensics A recent report by the United Kingdom’s police oversight body, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), highlights a key issue that law enforcement agencies across the globe are facing: there is an overwhelming amount of digital evidence piling up. This shouldn’t come as a surprise given the proliferation … Continued
Processing Times Reduced Dramatically in AXIOM 1.0.6 By Jad Saliba, Founder and CTO of Magnet Forensics Last week, we released Magnet AXIOM version 1.0.6. This update included a number of features and fixes, but one of the main goals was to address issues we, and our customers, had seen in processing times. And we did it! … Continued
Most forensic examiners are familiar with seeing false positives in their search or processing results. False positives will always be present in tools that conduct some form of data carving in their searching and/or processing. I often get questions from forensic examiners (both new and experienced) on whether the data that Magnet IEF or Magnet … Continued
We’re excited to introduce you to Jessica Hyde, our new Director, Forensics. Jessica will be contributing to the Magnet Forensics blog with insights on the digital forensics industry and in-depth looks at our products and product features. Her inaugural blog explores the ability to add an artifact from the File System or Registry Explorers and … Continued
We all know the forensics industry needs to be credible and reliable to have its necessary impact in the courtroom. Magnet Forensics recently launched an expanded training program and its first certification – the Magnet Certified Forensic Examiner (MCFE). To build an industry-leading training program, Magnet Forensics brought Chuck Cobb on board as Vice President, … Continued
Magnet Forensics CEO Adam Belsher published an editorial titled Fighting Crime in the Digital Age in the National Post, coinciding with our participation at the 111th annual Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police conference (Aug. 14-17). In the column, Adam provides an overview of the challenges people and society are facing as a result of … Continued
This post will outline the various views that Magnet AXIOM lets you use in your investigations and provides tips and tricks on how to get the most out of AXIOM’s Centralized Views. Depending on the type of data you’re looking at, the presentation can really help with your analysis. Some views work really well with … Continued
Since its launch, Uber has become a popular alternative to taxi rides in many cities globally. As Uber is controlled through a mobile app, it only makes sense to add support for it in Magnet AXIOM and Magnet IEF. With the launch of AXIOM 1.0.4 and IEF 6.8.1, we’ve added support to parse data from … Continued
One of the new features in Magnet AXIOM that we are most excited about is Source Linking. This key feature should really help forensic examiners dive deeper into their data and analyze evidence quickly and efficiently. In a nutshell, Source Linking allows an examiner to quickly navigate between the artifacts, file system, and Windows Registry … Continued
With the recent release of Magnet AXIOM, I thought it was a good time to write a few blogs to help examiners get started and see some of the new features we’ve added. After installation, the first thing you’ll want to do is run AXIOM Process. AXIOM Process allows examiners to acquire and analyze evidence … Continued
