This week, DFIR and infosec professionals converge on Las Vegas this week for the Black Hat and DEFCON conferences, each of which has its own Capture the Flag (CTF) competition. We thought we’d take a fond look back at the success of our own first-ever CTF, held in May in conjunction with our User Summit,...
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La evidencia digital está llegando a un ritmo abrumador. Como las investigaciones requieren más tiempo para pasar los datos, la tecnología puede jugar un papel crucial para obtener la evidencia importante que se ve primero. Únase a Aaron y Enrique de Magnet Forensics para conocer en profundidad la última versión de Magnet AXIOM. AXIOM 2.3...
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One of the most common challenges of any child exploitation investigation is the time it takes to review, categorize and report on child sexual abuse material (CSAM) that hasn’t yet been categorized in databases such as Project VIC and the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID). Thanks to the integration of...
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Whether you’re an in-house forensic examiner or a consultant, your ability to support Human Resources, Legal, Compliance, and related investigative teams is only as good as the software you use to find the evidence they need to build a case. As our flagship Magnet AXIOM software continues to evolve into a primary platform for more...
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Get the latest version of Magnet AXIOM in-app or at the Customer Portal today! Magnet AXIOM 2.4 will make it faster to open cases and process media, recover more evidence from GrayKey images and Office 365, and expand image classification capabilities in Magnet.AI. If you’re not already using AXIOM, try it for yourself by requesting...
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We’re continuing our “Meet the Forensic Trainer” series this summer with an introduction to Doug Estes, another of the newer faces on our Training team. Doug also came to us directly from law enforcement, and talks a little about how his past experiences helped him develop his training style. Read for more below! Want to...
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When you’re faced with an intrusion — whether you were brought in as an outside consultant or are responsible for incident response for your organization — your stakeholders or management ask the same question: What did they take, and how did they get in? In order to answer these questions, examiners must correlate a lot...
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One of the most common challenges of any child exploitation investigation is the time it takes to review, categorize and report on child sexual abuse material (CSAM) that hasn’t yet been categorized in databases such as Project VIC and the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID). Thanks to the integration of...
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Download Today! Successful Insider Threat Investigations A Magnet Forensics Industry Insights Brief No two insider threat investigations are ever the same—but a standardized process can help them run more smoothly. When you need to prove whether intellectual property, trade secrets, or other sensitive data were exfiltrated, and whether it was done inadvertently, opportunistically, or maliciously,...
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Last week we introduced a new three-part series that focuses on corporate investigations. This week, we’re very pleased to offer the first of our Industry Insights Briefs for download: Successful Insider Threat Investigations. What is an “insider threat”? Relative to external threat actors, insiders don’t attack with, for instance, malware delivery via spear phishing text...
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By Jessica Hyde, Director, Forensics I was asked recently what resources I think are most useful to helping a digital forensics and incident response professional stay current in DFIR, because there is so much information. In this post I’ve compiled a list of 10 of those resources that I personally use to try to stay...
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We’re continuing our “Meet the Forensic Trainer” series this summer with an introduction to Lyn Goh, another of the newer faces on our Training team. Lyn is based in the United Kingdom, where she worked in IT before migrating to digital forensics and later, digital forensics training. Read on below! Want to learn more about...
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In this Q&A, we talk with Nathan Little, a partner at Gillware Digital Forensics who leads incident response and data breach investigations. Nathan will be presenting his expertise when he co-hosts our upcoming webinar, “Fraud, IP Theft, and an Intrusion: A Case Study with Gillware Digital Forensics“. Learn more about how he got his start in the...
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There are a lot of third-party chat apps available for iOS and Android. Just look at the Google Play Store and iTunes Store and you’ll see more chat applications than you’ll ever be able to use and each target a different type of user, age group, region, or lifestyle. The most popular ones tend to...
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Who do you know in the digital forensics community who’s doing amazing work worthy of the Magnet Forensics Community Award? A lot of times it’s hard to tell, because many forensics examiners choose to remain humble—to downplay their hard work in favor of the people they’re striving to serve and (in many cases) save. It...
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Emergency Download (EDL) mode is a Qualcomm feature that can allow you to recover data from a device and perform tasks like unbricking or flashing the device. On supported devices, Magnet AXIOM can use EDL to extract a full image. The method for putting a device into EDL mode can vary depending on the model....
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With the release of Magnet AXIOM 2.5, we’ve really focused on how we can make AXIOM work better. We’ve gone through every step of the examination process to find ways to make it faster and smoother because we know how valuable time is in an investigation and how frustrating any delays can be. In this...
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We’re working hard to make sure that that the day-to-day experience of using Magnet AXIOM is improving all the time. With the latest version of Magnet AXIOM, Magnet AXIOM 2.5, we’re continuing to build on the huge features we’ve brought in with AXIOM 2.0. We know that differences of hours — or even minutes —...
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We’re continuing our “Meet the Forensic Trainer” series this summer with an introduction to Larry McClain, who joined the Magnet Forensics Training Team in July. Larry comes to us with many years of investigative digital forensics experience in both criminal and civil cases, as well as training experience from his military and law enforcement careers....
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Few people can work in technology without eventually learning that keyboard shortcuts can make your work just that little bit more efficient. The seconds you can save in using your keyboard—rather than your mouse to navigate to the correct menu and menu item—do add up, after all. The more features AXIOM adds, the more important...
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