We’re bringing Magnet User Summit 2019 to the Sheraton Grand Nashville Downtown in Nashville on April 2-3 — join us to learn the latest trends and best practices in digital forensics. MUS 2019 gives you a chance to network with others in the field while learning practical and useful information that can help you in … Continued
We’re continuing our “Meet the Forensic Trainer” series this summer with an introduction to Hoyt Harness, who joined the Magnet Forensics Training Team in August. Hoyt’s extensive instructional experience began in the US military and continued through the civilian law enforcement world, a great foundation for being a Magnet Trainer. Read on below! Want to … Continued
This month we’re pleased to introduce the second of three in our Industry Insights Brief series. Successful Employee Misconduct Investigations follows last month’s Successful Insider Threat Investigations, discussing two of the most common forms of misconduct—harassment, and misuse of company assets—and how AXIOM helps to show the patterns and artifacts common to each. Employee misconduct … Continued
We’re continuing our “Meet the Forensic Trainer” series this summer with an introduction to Larry McClain, who joined the Magnet Forensics Training Team in July. Larry comes to us with many years of investigative digital forensics experience in both criminal and civil cases, as well as training experience from his military and law enforcement careers. … Continued
Emergency Download (EDL) mode is a Qualcomm feature that can allow you to recover data from a device and perform tasks like unbricking or flashing the device. On supported devices, Magnet AXIOM can use EDL to extract a full image. The method for putting a device into EDL mode can vary depending on the model. … Continued
Who do you know in the digital forensics community who’s doing amazing work worthy of the Magnet Forensics Community Award? A lot of times it’s hard to tell, because many forensics examiners choose to remain humble—to downplay their hard work in favor of the people they’re striving to serve and (in many cases) save. It … Continued
There are a lot of third-party chat apps available for iOS and Android. Just look at the Google Play Store and iTunes Store and you’ll see more chat applications than you’ll ever be able to use and each target a different type of user, age group, region, or lifestyle. The most popular ones tend to … Continued
In this Q&A, we talk with Nathan Little, a partner at Gillware Digital Forensics who leads incident response and data breach investigations. Nathan will be presenting his expertise when he co-hosts our upcoming webinar, “Fraud, IP Theft, and an Intrusion: A Case Study with Gillware Digital Forensics“. Learn more about how he got his start in the … Continued
We’re continuing our “Meet the Forensic Trainer” series this summer with an introduction to Lyn Goh, another of the newer faces on our Training team. Lyn is based in the United Kingdom, where she worked in IT before migrating to digital forensics and later, digital forensics training. Read on below! Want to learn more about … Continued
By Jessica Hyde, Director, Forensics I was asked recently what resources I think are most useful to helping a digital forensics and incident response professional stay current in DFIR, because there is so much information. In this post I’ve compiled a list of 10 of those resources that I personally use to try to stay … Continued
