Digital forensics has relied on the file system for as long as hard drives have existed. The structures associated with File Allocation Tables (FAT), the New Technology File System (NTFS), Extended File System (EXT), and other file systems—as well as the partitions within—could be mined for file metadata, carved for deleted files, and accessed to … Continued
Coming to London, Paris, and Düsseldorf this April: the Magnet User Summit — your opportunity to attend in-depth lectures and a hands-on lab for the recovery, analysis, and reporting of digital evidence, and to network with our experts and your peers who work in mobile and computer forensics. Visit our Magnet User Summit site for … Continued
As enterprises of all sizes continue to shift more and more data into cloud-based content collaboration platforms, it’s more important than ever to learn how to recover cloud-based data and perform forensically sound Office 365 investigations. Join Warren Pamukoff, Product Marketing Manager, and Tayfun Uzun, Senior Product Manager, for a look at: Industry trends related to enterprise cloud … Continued
We’re proud to introduce a new course for people who are looking to expand the capabilities of their computer forensics investigations: Magnet AXIOM Advanced Computer Forensics (AX250). This is an expert-level four-day training course. It is designed for participants who are somewhat familiar with the principles of digital forensics and are seeking to expand their … Continued
Magnet AXIOM supports many different services and platforms in its cloud product from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, and many more. We also include a generic POP/IMAP connector to allow examiners to pull additional email services not explicitly included in the regular cloud providers. As long as the webmail provider supports either POP or IMAP, … Continued
In January, we released the AXIOM Wordlist Generator free tool and described in our white paper the changes to the Microsoft® Windows® 10 login workflow that affected password cracking practices. The login workflow was far from the only change in this anniversary update, however. In this blog, Training Director Jamey Tubbs describes other Windows operating … Continued
What do Android analysis, forensic machine learning, and going to court have in common? They were all topics of Magnet Forensics’ white papers last year. Whether to share our experts’ research and knowledge on mobile operating systems (like Android Marshmallow and Nougat), provide an in-depth look at the technology and concepts (like Magnet.AI and custom … Continued
The Magnet User Summit Series is back, and it’s coming to more cities this year! We’re bringing news, hands-on learning, and our observations on industry issues to Las Vegas, US; London, England; Paris, France; and Dusseldorf, Germany. Visit our Magnet User Summit site for more details and to register. Since last year’s Summit Series, we’ve … Continued
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
