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by Andrey Fedorov The purpose of this article is to find additional information about the capabilities, specifics, and USPs of the ADR512 Android Data Recovery program. A full description of this software can be found here. Developers from 512 BYTE, who created the software, invited specialists from digital forensics lab Gross to test it. Let’s … Continue reading
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by Arman Gungor When mailboxes are forensically preserved for eDiscovery or digital forensic investigations, their contents are almost always searched and filtered. Filtering emails helps overcome time, scope and cost constraints and alleviates privacy concerns. There are two main ways of filtering emails—before and after the forensic acquisition. Each method has its pros and cons, … Continue reading
by Johann Hofmann, Griffeye In an article series of three, published in the Interpol Newsletter, Griffeye explores the possibilities of technology in digital media investigations. In this second article, Johann Hofmann, Director & Head of Griffeye, talks about the limitations for investigators working in silos. We explore what happens if investigators can’t access, use or share critical information … Continue reading
by Tim Alcock ISO/IEC 17025:2017 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories is the principal international standard for the accreditation of laboratories performing testing (including sampling) and/or calibration. Originating from ISO/IEC Guide 25, the standard has been through several iterations culminating in the latest version released in November 2017. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 … Continue reading
From the 3rd to the 6th of June 2018, 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 … Continue reading
by Oleg Skulkin & Igor Mikhaylov Metasploit Framework is not only very popular among pentesters, but is also quite often used by real adversaries. So why is memory forensics important here? Because Meterpreter, for example – an advanced, dynamically extensible Metasploit payload – resides entirely in the memory and writes nothing to the victim’s drive. In … Continue reading
by Oleg Afonin, Mobile Product Specialist at ElcomSoft Jailbreaking iOS is becoming increasingly difficult, especially considering the amounts of money Apple and independent bug hunters are paying for discovered vulnerabilities that could lead to a working exploit. Late last year, a bug hunter at Google’s Project Zero discovered one such vulnerability and developed and published an … Continue reading
