Keywords are an essential part of many forensic examinations. While running keyword lists shouldn’t be the extent of an investigation, the right keyword list can help examiners quickly get to the relevant evidence for their case. Magnet AXIOM allows examiners to run several different keyword searches either before or after processing your case. Let’s take … 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
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
We’re excited to introduce you to Jessica Hyde, our new Director, Forensics. Jessica will be contributing to the Magnet Forensics blog with insights on the digital forensics industry and in-depth looks at our products and product features. Her inaugural blog explores the ability to add an artifact from the File System or Registry Explorers and … Continued
This post will outline the various views that Magnet AXIOM lets you use in your investigations and provides tips and tricks on how to get the most out of AXIOM’s Centralized Views. Depending on the type of data you’re looking at, the presentation can really help with your analysis. Some views work really well with … Continued
With the recent release of Magnet AXIOM, I thought it was a good time to write a few blogs to help examiners get started and see some of the new features we’ve added. After installation, the first thing you’ll want to do is run AXIOM Process. AXIOM Process allows examiners to acquire and analyze evidence … Continued
Importance to Investigators USB device history is an invaluable source of evidence in digital forensics, playing a crucial role in various investigative scenarios. When an examiner needs to determine if an external device was connected to a system, USB artifacts provide definitive traces of such activities. This evidence can reveal not only the connection but … Continued
