This is the final blog post in a series of five about recovering third-party mobile chat applications for your digital forensics investigations. Data recovered from mobile chat apps is critical to many forensic investigations. However, with thousands of mobile chat apps in use today and a steady stream of new apps emerging, identifying, recovering and … Continued
HERE’S OUR GUIDE TO FINDING IMPORTANT BUSINESS APPLICATIONS & OS ARTIFACTS FOR YOUR DIGITAL FORENSICS INVESTIGATIONS! Sometimes when conducting digital forensics examinations, investigators can lose sight of the fact that they’re investigating the actions of a person, not a computer. Almost every event or action on a system is the result of a user either … Continued
In the first half of this IP forensics webinar, Heather Mahalik from SANS Institute offers tactical considerations for examining smartphone, cloud and computer artifacts in the event of intellectual property theft. She explores the challenges of investigating an IP theft case with the emergence of BYOD and cloud storage providers in the enterprise space. In … Continued
HERE’S OUR GUIDE TO FINDING IMPORTANT BUSINESS APPLICATIONS & OS ARTIFACTS FOR YOUR DIGITAL FORENSICS INVESTIGATIONS! Sometimes when conducting digital forensics examinations, investigators can lose sight of the fact that they’re investigating the actions of a person, not a computer. Almost every event or action on a system is the result of a user either … Continued
Facebook can be an indispensable online resource when recovering forensic artifacts to use as digital evidence. It can provide a glimpse into an individual’s life, offer geographical information to indicate where a person was on a specific date, and can reveal the identities of close friends and family. With Facebook applications available on most mobile … Continued
As a leading platform for voice and chat communications, Skype is often used as a platform for harassment or bullying incidents due to the perception that an individual’s actions are anonymous while on the Internet. Skype forensics analysis can yield valuable digital evidence for forensic investigators. In this white paper we’ll offer insight into where … Continued
What websites did the user visit? What was the user searching for? When was a site visited? In this webinar, presented by Rob Lee and Chad Tilbury from SANS Institute and Jad Saliba from Magnet Forensics, you’ll learn how to interpret Internet forensics to get answers to these critical questions. We’ll demonstrate how to recover and analyze … Continued
As of January 2013, Apple announced it had sold over 500 million iOS devices. While iOS seems to be the leading operating system for tablets worldwide, Android continues to be the leading operating system for mobile phones worldwide. Regardless of the statistics, if you are an active forensic examiner, chances are very high you will … Continued
