Mobile Device Artifacts: Exploring Geolocation, Communication, Application and Media Evidence
Mobile device artifacts are digital breadcrumbs: forensically valuable data created by a mobile device that help investigators better understand a case.
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How to Uncover Media Artifacts for Mobile Device Investigations
Media artifacts on a device – both captured with the device’s on-board cameras and transmitted to the device through various methods – can be another area of interest during an investigation.
How to Uncover Application Artifacts for Mobile Device Investigations
Application artifacts are an important data source in mobile device investigations.
How to Uncover Web Browser Activity Artifacts for Mobile Device Investigations
Web browser activity artifacts are digital clues suspects create when they use web browsers on mobile devices. Browser history, cookies, cache, and file downloads are all web activity artifacts that investigators may find useful during a mobile device investigation.
How to Uncover Communication Artifacts for Mobile Device Investigations
Communication artifacts are digital breadcrumbs suspects leave behind in the form of emails, social media, native chat applications like the Messages app on iOS, or a third-party application like Signal. Learn how to find and use them.
Announcing Magnet GRAYKEY Fastrak – Scale Up Your Mobile Data Collection
Mobile smartphones have become engrained in our daily lives, so when someone commits a crime, mobile data is almost always a critical source of evidence. Magnet GRAYKEY provides the ability to quickly extract encrypted or inaccessible data from mobile devices on locked iOS and leading Android devices. However, most criminal investigations typically include multiple mobile devices, and it takes time to access and extract the data from each device to determine what truly happened.
How to Uncover Geolocation Artifacts for Mobile Device Investigations
In today’s digital age, the use of mobile devices has become pervasive across different domains. With the increase in usage, the role of geolocation in mobile device investigations has become more crucial than ever.
Unleash the Power of Your GRAYKEY at Scale – Introducing Magnet GRAYKEY Fastrak
Note that this session is exclusive to law enforcement and only available to agencies in select countries. All submissions will be vetted and once validated, you will receive the webinar joining details.
Mobile devices are a critical evidence source in criminal investigations but obtaining mobile data can be a time-consuming task, especially with multiple devices and large storage capacities.
To help forensic examiners accelerate their collection of mobile data we are thrilled to introduce Magnet GRAYKEY Fastrak.
GRAYKEY Fastrak provides a simple, fast, and efficient solution for extracting data from multiple mobile devices simultaneously, scaling up the capabilities of your existing GRAYKEY. Join Jay Varda, Solutions Consultant as he provides an overview of how GRAYKEY Fastrak can be used to simultaneously extract data from multiple mobile devices.
S1:E10 // iOS 17: Let’s USB-C what’s new!
With another year comes another chance to take a byte of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS. Join us for this next Mobile Unpacked episode to explore what impacts there have been to data acquisitions, device connections, and file types. This episode will explore the current and upcoming features of iOS 17 that will impact forensic investigations in all sectors. We will look at several of these new features within the raw file system to gain first-hand experience of the newest mobile operating system artifacts.
Magnet GRAYKEY Supports iOS 16.6
Apple is continuously rolling out updated versions of its mobile operating system, iOS, to address security concerns and introduce new features. While these ongoing releases provide value for the end users, they also add to the challenges faced by examiners who need to access and extract critical data from mobile devices involved in criminal investigations.