Hashcat is a popular password-cracking tool that security professionals, researchers, and digital forensic specialists use to recover lost or forgotten passwords. It works by taking a password hash, a unique alphanumeric representation of a password, and using numerous attacks to guess the password that produced the hash. Hashcat is fast and efficient, making it a powerful tool for password recovery.
In this blog you will learn about six reasons agencies should start developing mobile phone forensics capabilities now and how Magnet GRAYKEY can help support those goals.
Digital forensic professionals and Android users know the Android smartphone market is extremely fragmented. Broad Consent is the first step of many towards a future where we can provide users with more access to Android devices.
Using biometrics is the process of measuring and analyzing biological data to identify an individual. Mobile devices with biometric-enabled features are used for many purposes, one of which is authentication.
Learn about the essential components needed to process mobile devices and solve cases more efficiently.
Magnet GRAYKEY has entered the fight to provide lawful access to mobile devices so examiners and investigators can extract the critical evidence they need to solve CSAM cases.
Today’s criminal investigations often rely on digital evidence residing on mobile devices. During investigations, it’s the mobile forensics investigator’s responsibility to extract and collect that digital evidence. There’s no one “right path” to becoming a mobile forensics investigator.
Law Enforcement agencies perform logical acquisitions of unlocked iOS devices when they do not have access to Magnet GRAYKEY. The logical acquisition has been an industry-leading iOS acquisition method used by investigators and forensic examiners because of its simplicity and level of support. However, device security is one of the biggest roadblocks to completing logical acquisitions. For a logical acquisition to take place, device access needs to be granted using a passcode, and a trusted connection is required in most instances.
Magnet AXIOM is one of Detective Gish’s go-to tools and it’s part of what allows him to create the story of what has happened based on the data collected from digital devices.
Magnet Forensics is a proud partner and supporter of the Child Rescue Coalition (CRC). The CRC is “a nonprofit organization that rescues children from sexual abuse by building technology for law enforcement, free of charge, to track, arrest, and prosecute child predators.”
