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Unreal Steganography: Using A VR Application As A Steganography Carrier
by Stuart Wilson This report focuses on the use of virtual reality as a potential steganography carrier file to avoid detection of forensic analysis applications commonly used within law enforcement. The goal is to show how a virtual reality game/environment can be made with little training, what file types can be stored within it and … Continue reading
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by Joakim Kävrestad Determining with whom and in what way a computer has communicated can be important and interesting in several types of examinations. Communications can be an important part of analyzing if and how a computer has been remote controlled or with whom the computer has shared information. It can also be a good … Continue reading
From the 30th of September to the 2nd of October 2019, Forensic Focus will be attending the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in San Antonio, TX, 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 … Continue reading
Temporal analysis of events (Timeline) can be beneficial when you want to reconstruct events related to computer incidents, data breaches, or virus attacks taking place on a victim’s computer. Historically, digital forensic timeline analysis has been broken down into two parts: ‘Timeline’ to describe changes associated with temporal file metadata in a file system. In … Continue reading
by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus The need for image recognition and categorization has never been more in demand thanks to the spread of extremist propaganda, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and other illicit activity across the internet. Because of the sheer amount of material online, investigators assigned to these kinds of cases need ways to … Continue reading
by Paul Hamrick, Nuix Executive Summary Law enforcement investigations have long been influenced by developments in technology; after all, new technologies create new ways for criminals to profit and new sources of evidence. Law enforcement needs to keep up with the times, dealing with technological developments in areas like firearms, automobiles or more recently, digital … Continue reading
by Nikola Novak It‘s a great pleasure to share my experience of working with Oxygen Forensic Detective, which was a crucial tool in solving one of my cases. A father of a minor girl contacted me, worried his daughter was in suspicious society and probably had been consuming marijuana. His wife accidentally found traces of … Continue reading
by Yuri Gubanov Diving deeper may be the key to the eventual success of a digital forensic investigation. This is true not only when it comes to a single given case, but also when it comes to intersections between different cases. Sometimes, a person being investigated may have associates who are problematic, or who have … Continue reading
