Mobile chat apps continue to be an excellent source of evidence for various types of investigations. From fraud and IP theft, to child exploitation and terrorism, communication details found in mobile chat apps are often major pieces of the puzzle. While there are many popular and commonly known apps, suspects have become more aware of … Continued
File System Keyword Search, iTunes 10.1.1 Backup Decryption, Torrent Artifact Support, and more! The newest version of Magnet AXIOM has just been released. AXIOM 1.0.8 adds important new features for digital forensics examiners and investigators. We wanted to highlight some of the newest additions. You will often hear the team here at Magnet Forensics talk … Continued
One of the most obvious benefits of Magnet AXIOM is the access to the entire file system, as well as the hundreds of artifact types that the Magnet parsing and carving engine finds. To accommodate the larger data set and expanded access, we’ve improved the hashing functionality as well. If you are more familiar with … Continued
Popular Internet browsers (like Chrome, Safari, and Firefox) are well known to forensics examiners, but there are dozens of other browsers available to PC and smartphone users that are used more widely than the Big 3. Examiners need to become familiar with these not-so-mainstream browsers so important evidence isn’t overlooked. During this recorded webinar, Jamie … Continued
Magnet AXIOM version 1.0.7 is now available. This new version includes support for Pebble Watch for iOS and Android. Examiners can now access the Pebble Watch artifacts to recover information held by those apps, including notification time stamps, calendar events, weather, location and health data. AXIOM 1.0.7 also adds the ability to extract artifacts from … Continued
By Adam Belsher, CEO of Magnet Forensics A recent report by the United Kingdom’s police oversight body, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), highlights a key issue that law enforcement agencies across the globe are facing: there is an overwhelming amount of digital evidence piling up. This shouldn’t come as a surprise given the proliferation … Continued
Intended for users of Magnet AXIOM. In this new world of hyper-connected mobile chat and social apps, it seems like a new app explodes in popularity every month and existing apps are constantly changing and adding new features. These apps introduce rich new sources of evidence, but also create new demands of digital forensics examiners. … Continued
Processing Times Reduced Dramatically in AXIOM 1.0.6 By Jad Saliba, Founder and CTO of Magnet Forensics Last week, we released Magnet AXIOM version 1.0.6. This update included a number of features and fixes, but one of the main goals was to address issues we, and our customers, had seen in processing times. And we did it! … Continued
Most forensic examiners are familiar with seeing false positives in their search or processing results. False positives will always be present in tools that conduct some form of data carving in their searching and/or processing. I often get questions from forensic examiners (both new and experienced) on whether the data that Magnet IEF or Magnet … Continued
Hosted by Christopher Vance, Forensic Trainer at Magnet Forensics Android’s Marshmallow OS has its own set of unique challenges. During this recorded webinar, Christopher Vance looked at ways to acquire images and work through an examination of devices running this OS. He also discussed the different ways to obtain an image of an Android device – … Continued
