This month, we’re looking at a few of the reasons why we think you continue (thank you!!) to nominate Magnet AXIOM and IEF year after year for Forensic 4:cast Computer Forensic Software and Phone Forensic Software of the Year Awards. We really do strive to make tools that you see as a necessity in your … Continued
Last year we published a series of blogs, “Being Forensically Curious,” that was based on a presentation coauthored by Magnet Director of Forensics Jessica Hyde and Forensic Consultant Cesar Quezada. That presentation, “Mobile App Parsing – All About that Data” is available as a recorded webinar here. Both the webinar and the blog series outline … Continued
We want to extend our sincere appreciation to those of you who took the time to cast nomination ballots in the 2018 Forensic 4:cast Awards. Thanks to you, we are nominated for THREE categories: Digital Forensic Organization of the Year Phone Forensic Software of the Year Computer Forensic Software of the Year Your nominations show … Continued
This week, DFIR and infosec professionals converge on Las Vegas this week for the Black Hat and DEFCON conferences, each of which has its own Capture the Flag (CTF) competition. We thought we’d take a fond look back at the success of our own first-ever CTF, held in May in conjunction with our User Summit, … Continued
Our previous two blogs covered the reasons why we think file system forensics’ marginal returns are rapidly diminishing, and the changes in consumer electronics that continue to drive the need for a focus on artifacts and the apps they come from in digital forensics. In our final post, we’re discussing how the artifacts-oriented approach allows … Continued
Our previous blog covered the reasons why we think file system forensics’ marginal returns are rapidly diminishing, and why we think the process needs to be balanced with a more efficient, artifacts-oriented approach that relies on the file system to verify and validate. In this blog, we offer the historical context for how we think … Continued
Digital forensics has relied on the file system for as long as hard drives have existed. The structures associated with File Allocation Tables (FAT), the New Technology File System (NTFS), Extended File System (EXT), and other file systems—as well as the partitions within—could be mined for file metadata, carved for deleted files, and accessed to … Continued
Coming to London, Paris, and Düsseldorf this April: the Magnet User Summit — your opportunity to attend in-depth lectures and a hands-on lab for the recovery, analysis, and reporting of digital evidence, and to network with our experts and your peers who work in mobile and computer forensics. Visit our Magnet User Summit site for … Continued
In January, we released the AXIOM Wordlist Generator free tool and described in our white paper the changes to the Microsoft® Windows® 10 login workflow that affected password cracking practices. The login workflow was far from the only change in this anniversary update, however. In this blog, Training Director Jamey Tubbs describes other Windows operating … Continued
What do Android analysis, forensic machine learning, and going to court have in common? They were all topics of Magnet Forensics’ white papers last year. Whether to share our experts’ research and knowledge on mobile operating systems (like Android Marshmallow and Nougat), provide an in-depth look at the technology and concepts (like Magnet.AI and custom … Continued
