Build Your Own Digital Evidence Collection Kit
First published June 2009 by David Kovar, NetCerto, Inc. Overview Collecting evidence accurately is clearly a foundational element for any ediscovery or forensics analysis project. The equipment...
View ArticleFlash drives and acquisition
First published June 2010 by Dominik Weber, Senior Software Architect for Guidance Software, Inc. “Take a look at this”. It started simply with that.A co-worker was looking into some strange issue with...
View ArticleThe End of Digital Forensics?
by Craig Ball When Microsoft introduced its Encrypting File System (EFS) in Windows 2000, the Cassandras of computer forensics peppered the listserves with predictions that the days of digital...
View ArticleForensic Toolkit v3 Tips and Tricks – On a budget
While researching FTK 3X and Oracle, you just recently discovered that the best configuration of your Oracle database would be on a solid state drive (SSD). Solid state drives give the maximum level of...
View ArticleForensic Imaging of Hard Disk Drives- What we thought we knew
By Todd G. Shipley and Bryan Door (A complete copy of this white paper and its figures and diagrams can be found at www.nfdrtc.net). WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT Imaging of hard drives has been the main...
View ArticleAccessData FTK 4.0: initial impressions
Introduction In this post, I will provide some initial impressions and findings. I do not endeavor to write a white paper, or to employ an industry standard, scientific methodology to evaluating the...
View ArticleWhy SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It
by Yuri Gubanov yug@belkasoft.com, Oleg Afonin aoleg@voicecallcentral.com Belkasoft Ltd. http://belkasoft.com Abstract Solid State drives (SSD) introduced dramatic changes to the principles of computer...
View ArticleExtracting data from damaged mobile devices
For the last few years we have successfully extracted data from various mobile device, such as cell phones, smartphones, tablets, etc. Among devices to be examined, we came across defective mobile...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy Android 4.3 Jelly Bean acquisition using Joint Test Action...
There have been some issues during data acquisitions with Samsung Galaxy having the Android 4.3, Jelly Bean as the operating system even if using the recommended steps for Logical File Dump, File...
View ArticleExtracting data from dump of mobile devices running Android operating system
In this article, we are going to tell about opportunities of utilizing programs that are used on a day-to-day basis in computer forensics and examination for analysis of mobile devices running Android...
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