Every day new mobile applications hit the App Store and Google Play. Many of these new apps contain chat functions or other storage that can be crucial evidence in a case. Often these apps are not yet supported by commercial tools. Join us in this webinar to review methodologies for discovering and parsing data from unsupported applications. We will go through each of … Continued
Mobile forensic acquisition and analysis continue to challenge even the most experienced professionals in the industry. Encryption, various forms of device locks, and ever-new releases of devices, operating systems, apps, and versions constantly require forensic examiners to adapt their methods. Join Jamie McQuaid, Forensics Consultant at Magnet Forensics, for a view into these trends and … Continued
Samsung devices are one of the most popular device types on the most popular mobile operating system, Android. In the case of a recent examination, a Samsung was giving me a lot of trouble. It was a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7, SM-G930V. This phone was released running Android version 6, or Marshmallow, and upgradable to … Continued
Update: An updated version of this release is now available as Magnet AXIOM 1.2.5. Magnet AXIOM 1.2.4 is now available for customers to download in the Customer Portal. With the latest release of AXIOM, we’re bringing new capabilities to bypass Android passwords, full Cloud token integration, McAfee Decryption, and more. Mobile Acquisition Improvements With AXIOM … Continued
There is a current misconception by many in the mobile forensics field that every acquisition method conducted on a mobile phone is specific to that model. Quite often, I will get requests from examiners asking for a list of mobile devices our tools support. I will often reply with a list of the models we … 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
Happy New Year everyone! Wishing you all a great 2018 full of successful investigations, RAID arrays that never fail, and passwords that are easy to crack. ? Cracking passwords is an unfortunate necessity of “the job” that has only increased over the past years. With better encryption, security, and more people using stronger passwords (or … Continued
Customers can now get the latest version of Magnet AXIOM over at the Customer Portal! Magnet AXIOM 1.2.3 improves smartphone acquisition, provides innovative new time filtering capabilities, enhancements to AXIOM Examine and AXIOM Cloud, offers new artifacts, and adds language support for Chinese (traditional) and Korean. Smartphone Acquisition Improvements With this release, we’ve worked hard … Continued
Recently, Magnet Forensics and Passware partnered to offer full disk decryption in Magnet AXIOM. AXIOM now includes seamless integration with Passware decryption technology, which supports full disk decryption with a known password for BitLocker, TrueCrypt, PGP Desktop encrypted devices, and others. The full Passware Kit Forensic, with additional features, is also available for purchase. For … Continued
Our previous two blog posts about being forensically curious have covered how to discover important information about new and/or unsupported apps, and how to test your hypotheses about the way the apps store data. Relying on research by Magnet Forensics’ Jessica Hyde and Basis Technology’s Cesar Quezada, as well as commentary by forensic research experts … Continued
