Smartphone apps that allow users to express themselves by messaging, posting, tweeting, liking, commenting, and sharing images and videos, have radically altered communication patterns. This new world of hyper-connected mobile chat and social apps is evolving at warp speed, and it seems like a new app explodes in popularity every month, with others constantly changing … Continued
We previously hosted a webinar on investigating smartphones using Magnet ACQUIRE and Magnet IEF. Our Director of Product Management, Geoff MacGillivray, and Forensics Consultant, Jamie McQuaid, discussed some recent challenges impacting mobile forensics. If you would like to watch the webinar, you can do so here. Attendees got a preview into our new smartphone acquisition tool, … Continued
The amount of data being generated by mobile devices has exploded, resulting in exponentially more work for forensic examiners. To make matters more difficult, increased security features being introduced to iOS and Android devices (including encryption and locked bootloaders) are preventing examiners from recovering the crucial evidence they need. In this recorded webinar, we demonstrate … Continued
From Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics Today I’m excited to announce the beta availability of a new software product called Magnet ACQUIRE™. Magnet ACQUIRE is a smartphone acquisition tool that will allow you to quickly and easily acquire an image of any iOS or Android smartphone or tablet. We’re looking for forensic professionals to … Continued
Magnet RAM Capture: What does it do? Magnet RAM Capture is a free imaging tool designed to capture the physical memory of…
Our latest artifact update for IEF includes support for native Android applications. As the mobile market continues to narrow-in on two primary operating systems – Android and iOS – it’s becoming increasingly important for investigators to recover data from these built-in system apps. In February, we added support for a similar set of native iOS … Continued
The usage of location-based mobile dating applications like Tinder and Grindr has exploded over the last year. This new class of mobile app allows singles to identify, chat with, and meet other singles located in their immediate vicinity. As the popularity of these apps continues to grow, they will become increasingly important sources of evidence … Continued
This is the sixth blog post in a series of seven about the new features included in IEF v6.5 In Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.5 we are now offering support for the F2FS file system. The F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System) was originally created by Samsung and is still in development today. The F2FS file system … Continued
Smartphones have taken over the world, and mobile users spend the majority of their on-device time emailing, browsing the web, using social media, and chatting with others using various applications. In our latest white paper, The Rise of Mobile Chat Apps: Recovering Evidence from Kik Messenger, WhatsApp & BBM, we’ll zero-in on the importance of … Continued
This is the third blog post in a series of three about using IEF and Cellebrite to get more mobile evidence for your digital forensics investigations. In my previous blog post in this series, I explained how to find more mobile evidence on Android devices using IEF and Cellebrite. Today, we’ll walk through the same steps … Continued
