Meet Magnet Forensics’ Training Team: Hoyt Harness

We’re continuing our “Meet the Forensic Trainer” series this summer with an introduction to Hoyt Harness, who joined the Magnet Forensics Training Team in August. Hoyt’s extensive instructional experience began in the US military and continued through the civilian law enforcement world, a great foundation for being a Magnet Trainer. Read on below! Want to … Continued

Magnet AXIOM vs. Magnet IEF: Going Supersonic

By Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics It’s been about five months since I did some performance profiling between Magnet IEF and Magnet AXIOM and published a blog documenting the results. It was awesome to see the improvements that AXIOM has enabled, especially when it comes to examination/review time (keyword searches, filters, etc). … Continued

New Industry Insights Brief: Successful Employee Misconduct Investigations

This month we’re pleased to introduce the second of three in our Industry Insights Brief series. Successful Employee Misconduct Investigations follows last month’s Successful Insider Threat Investigations, discussing two of the most common forms of misconduct—harassment, and misuse of company assets—and how AXIOM helps to show the patterns and artifacts common to each. Employee misconduct … Continued

Meet Magnet Forensics’ Training Team: Larry McClain

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. … Continued

Big Improvements Make Magnet AXIOM 2.5 the Fastest Version Yet

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 — … Continued

How to Put a Qualcomm Phone into EDL Mode

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. … Continued

Android Messaging Forensics – SMS/MMS and Beyond

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 … Continued