We’re excited to release the most powerful and comprehensive version of Magnet AXIOM: Magnet AXIOM 3.0. With AXIOM 3.0, we’re giving you the ability to recover digital evidence from more sources than ever before (including Mac computers and new cloud sources), a powerful and intuitive new Timeline view, and much more. Find out more about … Continued
In this blog, Timothy Moniot, a Senior Solutions Consultant here at Magnet Forensics, guides you through how to get Microsoft Office 365 ready to use in Magnet AXIOM. Getting Microsoft Office 365 prepared and setup to be used in conjunction with AXIOM Cloud will require cooperation between investigative and IT personnel within an organization. Create … Continued
We’re pleased to announce a new solution for digital forensics labs to get the most out of their forensics tools: Magnet AUTOMATE. AUTOMATE allows labs to complete their investigations faster by powering a repeatable forensic workflow that minimizes downtime and maximizes efficiency. At Magnet Forensics, we’ve been aiming to help digital forensics labs focus their energies on the … Continued
An updated version of the free Magnet AXIOM Wordlist Generator tool is now available for download. The long-standing roadblock to examiners when dealing with iOS devices, has been the device’s handset lock code. There are several types of passcodes that an examiner may come across when dealing with an iOS device including: 6-Digit Numeric Code 4-Digit … Continued
By Jessica Hyde, Director, Forensics I recently delivered a webinar, “Apple’s Tween Years: iOS’ Maturation from 10 through 11 and into 12,” followed by an iOS and cloud forensics focused trip in New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore. From talking with examiners at these events, I realized that the lecture content contained three “surprises” that could … Continued
With the past few releases of Magnet AXIOM, we’ve added new artifacts found on iOS file system images seen primarily when investigators have access to tools such as GrayKey. With the release of AXIOM 2.8, we’ve included additional iOS artifacts, including the KnowledgeC database artifacts found on iOS devices. KnowledgeC Database As investigators, our job revolves around … Continued
Screen Time, a new feature added to the release of iOS 12, is designed to supervise activities that are going on within the device. Whether set up from a parental standpoint to limit how much time is being spent on video games, or someone is simply trying to limit how much time they spend on … Continued
This month brings the conclusion of our Industry Insights Brief series. Successful Root Cause Analysis Investigations follows on the heels of Successful Insider Threat Investigations and Successful Employee Misconduct Investigations by discussing a third common type of corporate investigation: intrusions from outside. Sometimes, intrusion investigations only go as far as determining what was accessed and/or … Continued
With the release of Magnet AXIOM 2.5 and 2.6, we’ve added new artifact parsing capabilities to support exams that utilize GrayKey. Again, GrayKey is a new forensic tool that unlocks iOS devices new and old, giving us access to helpful device information many thought we wouldn’t see again: both user and system data. In this … Continued
Instagram is so popular that it’s safe to say at some point, an investigation will lead you to uncovering potential evidence from it. In this blog, we’ll take a conventional investigation that I conducted and compare and contrast how it would work with or without Magnet AXIOM Cloud. Instagram’s Requirements for Law Enforcement In the … Continued
