New apps (not to mention new versions of apps) are introduced at a pace that commercial forensics tool vendors can’t possibly keep up with. Even popular apps take vendors time to build support for. If, like most labs, you can’t afford to outsource an examination every time you run across an unsupported app, the alternative … Continued
Every day new mobile applications hit the App Store and Google Play. Many of these new apps contain chat functions or other storage that can be crucial evidence in a case. Often these apps are not yet supported by commercial tools. Join us in this webinar to review methodologies for discovering and parsing data from unsupported applications. We will go through each of … Continued
Today we announced our partnership with U.S. based nonprofit organization, Child Rescue Coalition (CRC), a partnership that will see Magnet Forensics and CRC come together to help achieve our shared goal of protecting children against child sexual exploitation and abuse. As a former digital forensics examiner, our Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Jad Saliba worked … Continued
This is the first part in a two-part series. You can read Part 2 here. In our previous blog post, “Telling the Story of Digital Evidence,” we outlined how the Connections feature in Magnet AXIOM automatically shows where key digital evidence came from, where it is currently located, who it was shared with and when … Continued
By Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics It’s almost been two years since we released Magnet AXIOM v1.0, and it’s been quite the ride since that release day! AXIOM was created primarily because we were looking to add more functionality to IEF — but IEF was based on a platform that was reaching … 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
In digital forensics, demonstrating attribution—using operating system artifacts to prove that the suspect had knowledge of the document or image files found on a device—is one of the key elements of building a case. The ability to tell an evidentiary story is even better. How did a file get here? Where did it go—to whom … 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
Mobile forensic acquisition and analysis continue to challenge even the most experienced professionals in the industry. Encryption, various forms of device locks, and ever-new releases of devices, operating systems, apps, and versions constantly require forensic examiners to adapt their methods. Join Jamie McQuaid, Forensics Consultant at Magnet Forensics, for a view into these trends and … Continued
The latest version of Magnet AXIOM is ready for customers to download either at the Customer Portal or when you open AXIOM. Magnet AXIOM 1.2.6 brings improvements to Cloud acquisition — including support for Google Hangouts — as well as an update to our Passware integration that uses a password dictionary list to attempt to … Continued
