Forensic Hardware: Motherboard Recommendations
Read the specs and a couple reviews, but must of missed the one with all the arcing problems. Interesting how it won the "AnandTech Editor Choice Award" with that reported issue. If that is the case...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion: accessing hidden partitions
I presume you have imaged these drives. I can think of about a half dozen variety of partitioning schemes that are not be available in most tools. What if it is an AIX, Sun or Amiga partitioning? Would...
View ArticleMobile Phone Forensics: Analyze Samsung E2202
Hello, I have new information. I received a new phone to analyze, a samsung E1200. The connection is not a micro usb but a samsung connection. The phone is very similar; I think it's the same OS. UFED...
View ArticleMobile Phone Forensics: Blackberry Z10 Analysis
Hi everyone, just wanted to know if anyone has had success extracting data from the new Blackberry Z10. I performed a backup with BB Link, but the data within the BBB file appears encrypted so I...
View ArticleMobile Phone Forensics: viaForensics AFLogical
To add to your current toolset, you may also want to consider: XRY, FinalMobile and Oxygen...
View ArticleMobile Phone Forensics: Asus Nexus 7 - Pattern Lock
You can try dumping the memory using JTAG or similar. Alternatively there are quick rooting instructions over at XDA Developers. The last I saw, it used 2 GB Hynix H5TC2G83CFR DDR3 RAM. The datasheet...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion: Encrypted USB drive
Curse of opening messages by tab... <img src="images/smiles/icon_redface.gif" alt="Embarassed" title="Embarassed" /> jaclaz wrote: jhup wrote: Alternatively there are quick rooting instructions...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion: Analysing IIS logs
Hi, keydet89 rightly said. Pay attention in the error 500(server error) also, Attacker used to send false request to the server and complete database architectures could be cloned from the error...
View ArticleEmployment and Career Issues: Could I work in Digital Forensics with a...
Hello I am currently in my third year (4 year course) of a Forensic Bioscience Degree. I have completed IT at GCSE and A-Level but no degree. I am self taught on most of what I know in IT (hence the...
View ArticleForensic Software: XWF: Multiple File Finder X-Tension
I have created a X-Tension for X-Ways Forensics called "Multiple File Finder". It can search for filenames and/or path names and add the matching files to a specific report table. The X-Tension can be...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion: Article: Interpretation of NTFS Timestamps
Quote:: File and directory timestamps are one of the resources forensic analysts use for determining when something happened, or in what particular order a sequence of events took place. As these...
View ArticleForensic Software: EnCase 7 vs FTK4
Ive used XWF but for pretty low level stuff. If you have to start looking at FS data strutures, the HEX Viewer beats any of them hands down. No doubt though, the Interface in not pretty and hard to...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion: Analysing IIS logs
There are a couple of approaches you can use here. Sometimes the volume of the data to analyse overwhelms us. In situations like that, it is often helpful to plot some graphs/visualisations to try and...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion: search_db.h2.db - FrostWire H2 Database
Just wondering if anyone had any luck with the suggestions in this topic in particular finding something to convert the h2 file to another format.
View ArticleGeneral Discussion: Twitter Profile capture
I'm demoing a product called X1 Social Discovery that does exactly that. They have a 14 day free trial. http://www.x1discovery.com/social_discovery.html Social media has been very helpful in fraud...
View ArticleMobile Phone Forensics: Blackberry Z10 Analysis
My guess is you won't have any luck. Early builds of the PlayBook OS allowed unencrypted backups, but that lead to piracy of paid apps as you could backup and restore the apps. Later PlayBooks and the...
View ArticleMobile Phone Forensics: Burner - Disposable Phone Numbers (Android/iOS) App
For anyone interested in new apps that pose a threat to forensics or CI... I never post new topics but figured I would post about an app that has evolved and now made its way to Android OS devices too....
View ArticleEmployment and Career Issues: Could I work in Digital Forensics with a...
My background is not dissimilar to Paul's - except I had no one to explain extended partitions to me, I had to discover for myself. When running my own business there were never any degrees in 'Non...
View ArticleMobile Phone Forensics: Sony Xperia Arc S Advice
I think you could be on the right track with questioning whether or not the device itself would store the media. My guess (as I haven't examined one) is that the media card is used for this. Details on...
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