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Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums.

Forum members explain the difference between unallocated and unused space.

How do you format your mobile forensic reports?

Can you help Nirnias with encrypted drive data retrieval?

How do you secure yourself on a WEP network? Share your thoughts on the forum.

What features would you like to see in a new forensic suite?

Forum members discuss the effectiveness of Wiebetech USB write blocker on Windows 7.

Will an i7 CPU or an Intel Xeon do better for mobile phone analysis? Share your thoughts on the forum.

Why are the CMF and System start times different on this Windows 7 machine?

How would you bypass a pattern lock on a Samsung SM-A510F?

Forum members discuss memory dumps using Volatility. Continue reading Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up→

Peter, tell us a bit about yourself. What is your background and your current role?

I read law at Oxford and had a first career in book publishing. At that time although we all knew what a computer was most of us thought it unlikely that we would ever use one, let alone have so many in our houses that we lost count. I specialized in egg-head non-fiction. One of my authors was a research scientist at the National Physical Laboratory and wanted a guinea pig to see how far an “arts” graduate would cope with a computer. That started me off and fired my imagination. In a move to get a bit of practical electronics knowledge I took the amateur radio license exam, then a more difficult task than it is today.

Read More Continue reading Interview With Professor Peter Sommer→

On Thursday the 16th of March 2017, Forensic Focus sponsored a golf day for Childline, who provide a free, confidential service to young people who need to talk.

About Childline

Childline’s goal is to help people up to the age of 19 with anything they may need to discuss, whether that is problems at home or school, difficulties with friendships or exams, or any other kind of life stress young people may encounter.

Founded in 1986 by Dame Esther Rantzen, the service merged with the NSPCC in 2006 in order to enable them to help more people and work more closely with other agencies in the augmentation of children’s services in the UK. Continue reading Forensic Focus Sponsors Golf Day In Aid Of Childline→

More power, ease of use and scalability

Mobile phones contain more data and information than ever. This has greatly increased the demands placed on the tools used to solve crimes. XAMN Spotlight 2.0 is the next level of mobile forensics; a powerful and intuitive tool that helps investigators find and analyze data faster, more efficiently and expediently. Its’ combination of cutting edge features as well as ease of implementation, gives you an unprecedented performance-vs-investment-ratio, with scalability and flexibility.

Discover the latest XAMN Spotlight 2.0 here. Continue reading XAMN Spotlight 2.0 Released – Taking Mobile Forensics To The Next Level→

BlackBag Technologies is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our mobile device triage tool, Mobilyze 2017 R1. New features added to this version of Mobilyze are designed to enhance the overall Mobilyze user experience and increase … Continue reading BlackBag’s Mobilyze 2017 R1 Supports iOS 10.3→

From the 4th to the 7th of June 2017, Forensic Focus will be attending the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any speakers you think we should interview, please let us know in the comments.

Below is an overview of the subjects and speakers that will be featured at Techno Security.

Sunday June 4th
Throughout the week, the conference will be split into seven tracks: Audit / Risk Management, Forensics, Information Security, Investigations, Sponsor Product Demos, Cellebrite Lab, and Magnet Forensics Lab. Attendees will be able to dip in and out of each track depending on their interests. Forensic Focus will mainly be following the Forensics and Investigations tracks throughout the conference.

Read More Continue reading Techno Security 2017 – Myrtle Beach 4th – 7th June→

Oxygen Forensics, a worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices and cloud services, announced today that its flagship product, Oxygen Forensic Detective, is being used by professors teaching digital forensic classes within the BS and MS cybersecurity degree programs at Capitol Technology University in Laurel, Maryland.

“Capitol Technology University’s use of our flagship product in its digital forensic classes is wonderful validation of the robustness of our product and the real-world experience that forensics students achieve by using Oxygen in the classroom,” said Lee Reiber, Oxygen Forensics COO. “We are very proud that Capitol included us in the digital forensic courses as they train the next generation of investigators focused on the new digital landscape.”

An excerpt from Mobile Forensic Investigations: A Guide to Evidence Collection, Analysis, and Presentation, the textbook used by Captiol Technology University for its mobile forensic curriculum, states: Continue reading Oxygen Forensics Used To Teach Students In Capitol Technology University→

MOBILedit Forensic Express enters a new era by adding physical extraction and analysis, and it is now a native 64-bit application providing more power and stability for processing huge data. Version 4.0 brings in total 359 improvements making MOBILedit… Continue reading MOBILedit Forensic Express 4.0 Features Physical Analysis, 64-Bits And More→

MOBILedit Forensic Express enters a new era by adding physical extraction and analysis, and it is now a native 64-bit application providing more power and stability for processing huge data. Version 4.0 brings in total 359 improvements making MOBILedit… Continue reading MOBILedit Forensic Express 4.0 Features Physical Analysis, 64-Bits And More→

Tuesday, March 28 at 1:00PM EST / 10:00AM PST / 5:00PM GMT
Wednesday, March 29 at 9:00AM EST / 6:00AM PST / 1:00PM GMT

Every day new mobile applications are launched and made available. Often these new apps contain chat functions or other storage that can be crucial evidence in a case. However, parsing and carving for the data from these apps isn’t always immediately available from commercial forensic tools. Join Jessica Hyde, Director of Forensics at Magnet Forensics to explore new methods for discovering and parsing data from these unsupported applications. Learn how to test, find, parse, and script to obtain forensic evidence in new applications using a physical forensic image.

Presenter: Jessica Hyde, Director of Forensics, Magnet Forensics

Register here Continue reading Webinar: Methods For Parsing New Applications→