Content Industry: Public Safety

How To Get the Most Out of Your Magnet GRAYKEY Extractions

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GrayKey extractions are an amazing tool for digital investigators and examiners, since getting a full file system image is crucial. For years, most forensic examinations of iOS devices were limited to data only available in an iTunes backup and only if you had the user’s passcode—with Android acquisitions not being much easier.

Magnet AXIOM 7.2 Now Available

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We are thrilled to announce the release of Magnet AXIOM 7.2! This latest release introduces new features to help make it easier to access, view, and verify critical information from mobile sources for your investigations, including:

Does Slicing Onions Make You Cry – Forensics Analysis of TAILS

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Privacy is becoming increasingly prevalent in everyone’s day-to-day vocabulary. Over the past five years we have seen a surge in illegal activities taking place in the dark web market vendor space, with many of these transactions having devastating impacts on our communities due to the rise in fentanyl deaths caused from overdoses.

Best Practices for Ransomware and Data Extortion Memory Response

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) & partners recently released a “#StopRansomware Guide” Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) which aims at providing guidance to organizations to reduce the impact of ransomware incidents and a checklist of best practices for responding to these threats.

DFIRL Season 2 Episode 1 Live: The Sextortion Case of Daniel Harris

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Today’s guest for the Digital Forensics in Real Life Podcast is Jim Cole, a retired Supervisory Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). He shared the case of Daniel Harris—a disgraced former top gun Navy F-18 pilot who sextorted at least 70 child victims around the globe—live on stage at the Magnet User Summit in Nashville.

MVS Replay: Adapting to the Cloud in DFIR

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One of the biggest changes being felt throughout the fields of digital forensics and incident response is the advances being brought about by cloud computing. The big three in the area (Amazon Web Services [AWS], Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) take advantage of the real-time adaptability of the Cloud by always changing and adding new … Continued

MVS Replay: Free Triage Tools to Bolster Your IR Toolkit

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Time is always of the essence in IR investigations and reducing the time to collect and analyze data is crucial. Triage has become an increasingly important part of DFIR toolkits, enabling forensic investigators to manage the large volumes of alerts and data that could be reviewed to determine the validity and extent of incidents. Join … Continued