You’ve downloaded Magnet ACQUIRE – Community Edition and are about to begin using it for the first time. To help you get started with Magnet ACQUIRE – Community Edition, we’ve put together this helpful guide. In this guide, you’ll learn how to: Set up your device for imaging Acquire Quick and Full images Open the … Continued
We previously hosted a webinar on investigating smartphones using Magnet ACQUIRE and Magnet IEF. Our Director of Product Management, Geoff MacGillivray, and Forensics Consultant, Jamie McQuaid, discussed some recent challenges impacting mobile forensics. If you would like to watch the webinar, you can do so here. Attendees got a preview into our new smartphone acquisition tool, … Continued
Overview: Magnet IEF reports some of the most important data for files and artifacts. However, examiners often need to dig even deeper into an artifact or file to better understand its purpose or value. Hex and Text Viewers, now built into Magnet IEF Report Viewer, allow examiners to view the raw data and: Confirm/validate the … Continued
Overview: Magnet IEF Report Viewer has two different modes to better meet the needs of our various users: Examiner mode: Fully featured Magnet IEF report view with all of the analysis and reporting tools that Magnet IEF users are familiar with Works when the IEF license is connected and registered to your computer Investigator mode: … Continued
As we continue to add analysis features to Magnet IEF, one of the most common pieces of feedback we receive is that we needed a simplified report viewer for sharing IEF results with non-technical stakeholders. These stakeholders may include other investigators, lawyers, analysts, managers, HR, or anyone else who may be involved with an investigation, … Continued
This is the seventh and final blog post in a series about the new features included in IEF v6.5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYB1Fdzq3BY&feature=youtu.be Visual evidence often tells the most compelling story, which is why we have made some improvements to our picture and video analysis capabilities with the release of IEF v6.5. New features will help you review … Continued
This is the sixth blog post in a series of seven about the new features included in IEF v6.5 In Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.5 we are now offering support for the F2FS file system. The F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System) was originally created by Samsung and is still in development today. The F2FS file system … Continued
This is the final blog post in a series of five about recovering third-party mobile chat applications for your digital forensics investigations. Data recovered from mobile chat apps is critical to many forensic investigations. However, with thousands of mobile chat apps in use today and a steady stream of new apps emerging, identifying, recovering and … Continued
A few questions recently came in about the effects of running Internet history sanitation tools such as CCleaner, when examining a computer looking for internet related artifacts. CCleaner is a product from a company identified as Piriform (www.piriform.com), and a version is freely available online and commonly used to ‘sanitize’ user activity. From the online … Continued
