By Jessica Hyde, Director, Forensics I recently delivered a webinar, “Apple’s Tween Years: iOS’ Maturation from 10 through 11 and into 12,” followed by an iOS and cloud forensics focused trip in New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore. From talking with examiners at these events, I realized that the lecture content contained three “surprises” that could … Continued
With the past few releases of Magnet AXIOM, we’ve added new artifacts found on iOS file system images seen primarily when investigators have access to tools such as GrayKey. With the release of AXIOM 2.8, we’ve included additional iOS artifacts, including the KnowledgeC database artifacts found on iOS devices. KnowledgeC Database As investigators, our job revolves around … Continued
Screen Time, a new feature added to the release of iOS 12, is designed to supervise activities that are going on within the device. Whether set up from a parental standpoint to limit how much time is being spent on video games, or someone is simply trying to limit how much time they spend on … Continued
This month brings the conclusion of our Industry Insights Brief series. Successful Root Cause Analysis Investigations follows on the heels of Successful Insider Threat Investigations and Successful Employee Misconduct Investigations by discussing a third common type of corporate investigation: intrusions from outside. Sometimes, intrusion investigations only go as far as determining what was accessed and/or … Continued
With the release of Magnet AXIOM 2.5 and 2.6, we’ve added new artifact parsing capabilities to support exams that utilize GrayKey. Again, GrayKey is a new forensic tool that unlocks iOS devices new and old, giving us access to helpful device information many thought we wouldn’t see again: both user and system data. In this … Continued
Instagram is so popular that it’s safe to say at some point, an investigation will lead you to uncovering potential evidence from it. In this blog, we’ll take a conventional investigation that I conducted and compare and contrast how it would work with or without Magnet AXIOM Cloud. Instagram’s Requirements for Law Enforcement In the … Continued
Magnet Forensics Training Offers Incident Response Techniques and All Courses Now Count Toward CPE Credits If you’re looking to dive deep into incident response techniques and expand your knowledge of advanced forensics, then be the first to reserve your spot for our latest course, Magnet AXIOM Incident Response Examinations (AX310)! This is an expert-level four-day training … Continued
By Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics It’s been about five months since I did some performance profiling between Magnet IEF and Magnet AXIOM and published a blog documenting the results. It was awesome to see the improvements that AXIOM has enabled, especially when it comes to examination/review time (keyword searches, filters, etc). … Continued
Few people can work in technology without eventually learning that keyboard shortcuts can make your work just that little bit more efficient. The seconds you can save in using your keyboard—rather than your mouse to navigate to the correct menu and menu item—do add up, after all. The more features AXIOM adds, the more important … Continued
Last week we introduced a new three-part series that focuses on corporate investigations. This week, we’re very pleased to offer the first of our Industry Insights Briefs for download: Successful Insider Threat Investigations. What is an “insider threat”? Relative to external threat actors, insiders don’t attack with, for instance, malware delivery via spear phishing text … Continued
