Continuing to add to the Android support for Magnet GRAYKEY, we are thrilled to announce the addition of Google Pixel series 6 and 8 to our list of supported mobile devices, which includes the Pixel 6a and Pro models in this series. With this key addition to our Android coverage, we are helping to ensure you have the tools necessary to access and examine the mobile devices you encounter during your criminal investigations.
At Magnet Forensics, our commitment to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible is embodied by the GRAYKEY Labs team.
Following closely on the release of Apple’s annual major iOS update, we are thrilled to announce that Magnet GRAYKEY and Magnet VERAKEY support consent-based, full-file system extractions iOS Devices running Apple iOS 17—including the latest: iPhone 15.
With recent breakthroughs in Magnet GRAYKEY, we now have access to full file system images for iOS 17. This next episode of Mobile Unpacked will explore what these additional areas have given us in comparison to standard quick imaging or logical+ style imaging. Topics will include new/moved voicemail storage and transcriptions, the use of multiple SEGB formats, and more!
Investigators and prosecutors work closely together to protect nearly a million residents in Nashville—and digital evidence can play a crucial role in their cases. But, manually processing an average of three mobile devices for every case made backlogs inevitable, weighing heavily on everyone.
Within the first few months of using Magnet AUTOMATE in combination with Magnet AXIOM, Nashville Metro’s Criminal Investigations Division completely eliminated their mobile device backlog and dramatically reduced its time to evidence, now usually delivered within 24 hours
Join Metro Nashville’s Chad Gish for a walkthrough of his lab’s automated mobile workflows and see how AUTOMATE has helped him and his team to eliminate their mobile device backlog and accelerate justice.
Read how the Rochester Police Department used Magnet Graykey to gain access to a suspect’s phone and secure the key evidence needed to close a brutal homicide case. “Since we acquired GRAYKEY, it makes life a whole lot easier. It’s phenomenal in helping us access the data on iPhones.” – Scott Ferro, Examiner, Rochester Police Department
Learn how the Boulder County Digital Forensics lab uses Magnet Graykey and Axiom to streamline every stage of their mobile investigations, from access to analysis and collaboration with investigators and prosecutors.
iOS and Android devices are usually a plethora of media data, but what types of media data await an examiner? What is the difference between a HEIC and a JPEG, a PNG and a KTX, ProRes and ProRaw, or even a Live Photo versus a Motion Photo? Which types of media are going to be natively viewable, and which ones will require a special viewer?
Join Chris Vance in this next episode of Mobile Unpacked, where he will explore the different types of media files that are present on both Android and iOS devices including their proprietary formats and what each type of media file can tell us contextually about the data that awaits us.
Whenever an app ends up on a modern smartphone, it has to first ask for permission from the user for its functions. These permissions can be standard or considered ‘sensitive.’ Join us for this next episode of Mobile Unpacked with Chris Vance to learn how to use this information to track insights about the 3rd party apps installed on a device, what they have done or not done, and whether or not their behavior is malicious.
Mobile device artifacts are digital breadcrumbs: forensically valuable data created by a mobile device that help investigators better understand a case.
