Collaborate Disseminate
Forensic Focus was recently voted the top digital forensics blog of the year by participants in the Forensic 4:cast award.
Other winners included Magnet Forensics, who picked up the award for Digital Forensic Organization of the Year, as well as Comp… Continue reading Forensic Focus Wins Digital Forensic Blog Of The Year
XRY v7.4 enables extraction of location data from drones, and brings you a significant increase in data recovery with the new Android exploit. Continue reading Released Today: XRY v7.4, Kiosk 7.4 And XEC Express
First of all, when did you start in this field?
I started in the field of computer forensics when I was in college. But I started with Guidance about 13 years ago, in 2003. I’ve had many roles at Guidance. I started out actually in quality assurance, and then I worked in project management and training.
Can you tell us about the new products that Guidance has recently released?
Yeah, so we announced a couple of products – one is EnCase Mobile Investigator. EnCase Mobile Investigator is available for pre-sell, but it’s going to be available to Forensic customers and Endpoint Investigator customers. It’s really designed to review mobile acquisitions.
Read More Continue reading Interview With Ashley Hernandez, Director Of Product Management, Guidance
by James Zjalic
The subject of authentication is important across the entire digital forensic field and we as examiners have various weapons at our disposal in which to defend against the onslaught of manipulators, liars and charlatans. Authentication is frequently amongst the first steps in creating a robust chain of custody for evidence received and can also be an investigation in and of itself. In no field is this more evident than that of audio forensics, where the ubiquitous rise in consumer audio software has caused the proliferation of attempts at the removal or editing of digital evidence.
There are various techniques within audio forensics to authenticate a recording and many are borrowed from areas such as computer and image forensics. One method that is individual to audio forensics is that of ENF or Electric Network Frequency, or as sound engineers like to refer to it: ‘hum’.
Tell us a bit about your role and what a typical day in your life looks like.
In 2006 Guidance had this new product research team that I was recruited into that was doing forward thinking research, new product launches, and they were just releasing the first incident response products, then they just did security alerts from sims, and then automated forensic response. So I ended up in there, and then I went on to manage and then architect cyber-security and forensic products for about eight years. Now I work with a lot of partners, scouting technology we can license into our product line. And I do a lot of writing. I’m a Dark Reading contributor and I’ve published recently in Security Week. So that’s my deal. That’s my background.
Read More Continue reading Interview With Paul Shomo, Senior Technical Manager, Guidance Software
Magnet AXIOM 1.1.2 is now available — bringing with it enhanced integration with Griffeye and Project VIC, as well as significant developments in mobile acquisition, Portable Case, and BitLocker decryption.
Enhanced Integration with Griffeye and Project VIC
As we recently announced, AXIOM 1.1.2 will feature deeper integration with Griffeye and Project VIC for enhanced digital forensics analysis in child exploitation cases. Continue reading Flash Recovery Images To More Than 650 Samsung Devices With Magnet AXIOM
With the 6.3 million apps available to a user and only ~ 400 apps fully decoded by any advanced mobile forensic solution, Oxygen Forensics had to come up with a solution that can help the examiner to parse and analyze any application using an SQLite da… Continue reading Oxygen Forensics Offers Enhanced Apps Analysis With SQL Queries
by Chirath Dealwis
Digital forensics is a technique in the identification of computer based crimes. But digital forensics faces a few major challenges when it comes to conducting investigations.
According to Fahdi, Clarke & Furnell (2013), th challenges of digital forensics can be categorized into three parts.
• Technical challenges – e.g. differing media formats, encryption, steganography, anti-forensics, live acquisition and analysis.
• Legal challenges – e.g. jurisdictional issues, privacy issues and a lack of standardized international legislation.
• Resource challenges – e.g. volume of data, time taken to acquire and analyze forensic media.
Read More Continue reading An Introduction To Challenges In Digital Forensics
Can you tell us something about your background and why you decided to work in this field?
Sure. My background is a little unusual. I started coding when I was about seven, and I got my first job as professional programmer when I was 15.
I was of course very involved at the time in the Chicago hacker community, and that’s kind of how I learned about digital forensics, when it was a new field, and that it was something that I was really interested in doing.
Read More Continue reading Interview With Lesley Carhart, DFIR & OSINT Consultant
Edewede, you spent some time as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bedfordshire. What was your area of study, and what first sparked your interest in it?
My research involved investigating security threats in Smart Homes (SH) and developing an anomaly detection framework and a presence detection model for Smart Homes. It was clear in the early stages of my research that security was (and this is sometimes the case with major technological developments) not quite prominent in discussions and developments around the IoT. In recognition of the importance of the security within SH, I developed the concept of a Cyber-physically secure “Happy Home” which is a baseline security model in which all the elements in a SH are at their most secure state. These elements are a set of attributes (or features) which can be used to build a “Happy Home” – or the equivalent for any other Cyber-physical environment. Deviations from this baseline can be used to identify anomalies in the overall SH system.
Read More Continue reading Interview With Edewede Oriwoh, Independent Cyber-Physical Security Researcher