Most forensic examiners are familiar with seeing false positives in their search or processing results. False positives will always be present in tools that conduct some form of data carving in their searching and/or processing. I often get questions from forensic examiners (both new and experienced) on whether the data that Magnet IEF or Magnet … Continued
We’re excited to introduce you to Jessica Hyde, our new Director, Forensics. Jessica will be contributing to the Magnet Forensics blog with insights on the digital forensics industry and in-depth looks at our products and product features. Her inaugural blog explores the ability to add an artifact from the File System or Registry Explorers and … Continued
This post will outline the various views that Magnet AXIOM lets you use in your investigations and provides tips and tricks on how to get the most out of AXIOM’s Centralized Views. Depending on the type of data you’re looking at, the presentation can really help with your analysis. Some views work really well with … Continued
Since its launch, Uber has become a popular alternative to taxi rides in many cities globally. As Uber is controlled through a mobile app, it only makes sense to add support for it in Magnet AXIOM and Magnet IEF. With the launch of AXIOM 1.0.4 and IEF 6.8.1, we’ve added support to parse data from … Continued
One of the new features in Magnet AXIOM that we are most excited about is Source Linking. This key feature should really help forensic examiners dive deeper into their data and analyze evidence quickly and efficiently. In a nutshell, Source Linking allows an examiner to quickly navigate between the artifacts, file system, and Windows Registry … Continued
With the recent release of Magnet AXIOM, I thought it was a good time to write a few blogs to help examiners get started and see some of the new features we’ve added. After installation, the first thing you’ll want to do is run AXIOM Process. AXIOM Process allows examiners to acquire and analyze evidence … Continued
By Jad Saliba, Founder and CTO of Magnet Forensics Today we launched Magnet AXIOM! (View Press Release) Our team has been working hard to create a complete digital investigation platform that builds on the processing power of Magnet IEF, and I’m excited to announce that it is now available to the digital forensics community. AXIOM … Continued
UPDATE: Hi everyone. It’s Jamie McQuaid from the Magnet Forensics team. We just wrapped up the week at the National ICAC conference in Atlanta where we hosted a pre-launch event announcing Magnet AXIOM. It was a busy week for us here at Magnet Forensics, as you can guess, but here’s a bit more about the pre-launch … Continued
This is the fourth blog post in a series of five about recovering Business Applications & OS Artifacts for your digital forensics investigations. What are prefetch files? Prefetch files are great artifacts for forensic investigators trying to analyze applications that have been run on a system. Windows creates a prefetch file when an application is … Continued
