With data breaches, identity theft, and social sharing of personal information and content, awareness of personal privacy and security on mobile devices is growing. The onset of security apps for phones helps people feel proactive in safeguarding their privacy. Both security conscious users and nefarious actors have turned to both security apps and vault apps … Continued
As a continuation of our series around analyzing mobile images in multiple tools, this blog is going to focus around using images created by MSAB XRY. For more information around the multi-tool approach and other image formats, see our intro blog here. MSAB XRY creates both physical and logical forensic images in a proprietary format … Continued
As a continuation of our blog series around using multiple tools to be successful in your forensic investigations, this post is going to look at loading images from Oxygen into AXIOM. You can read the intro blog here which will also link to others in the series. Oxygen allows you to archive extraction and case data … Continued
Happy New Year everyone! Wishing you all a great 2018 full of successful investigations, RAID arrays that never fail, and passwords that are easy to crack. ? Cracking passwords is an unfortunate necessity of “the job” that has only increased over the past years. With better encryption, security, and more people using stronger passwords (or … Continued
Whether it’s through their work on a case, their unrelenting commitment to the pursuit of justice, or their contribution to digital forensics as a whole, the Magnet Forensics Community Award is our way of recognizing people in the digital forensics field who are bringing excellence and integrity to the community. Know an individual or team … Continued
Your Guide to a Repeatable Process for Determining and Retrieving User Passwords Download the white paper today! In late 2016, Microsoft introduced a large anniversary update for Windows 10, which included changes to the standard Windows 10 login workflow. Designed to address a vulnerability that allowed malicious users to deploy a certain form of ransomware, … Continued
Customers can now get the latest version of Magnet AXIOM over at the Customer Portal! Magnet AXIOM 1.2.3 improves smartphone acquisition, provides innovative new time filtering capabilities, enhancements to AXIOM Examine and AXIOM Cloud, offers new artifacts, and adds language support for Chinese (traditional) and Korean. Smartphone Acquisition Improvements With this release, we’ve worked hard … Continued
We’re gearing up for our first webinar of 2018, “How the Onset of Security Apps is Impacting Investigations” on January 30. Jessica Hyde, our Director of Forensics, will look into vault and security apps including file managers, cleaning apps, private browsers and app locks. In addition to a focus on Cheetah Mobile apps, she will … Continued
For those who don’t know, in addition to my work at Magnet Forensics, I teach Mobile Device Forensics at George Mason University. In addition to teaching the skills necessary to acquire and parse data from mobile devices, I attempt to share information that will be useful to my students who are entering the DFIR workspace. … Continued
As 2018 rolls in, it’s a great opportunity to look back and see how Magnet Forensics grew in 2017 (for our CEO Adam Belsher’s take, read: Looking Back on 2017 with Adam Belsher, CEO of Magnet Forensics.) This was a year of real change and growth and we thought it might be fun to look … Continued
