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

Working Cases Faster Than Ever in Magnet AXIOM 2.4

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 … Continued

iOS 11.4.1 Follow-up: Delaying USB Restricted Mode

by Chris Vance, MCFE, Magnet Forensics Manager, Training Curriculum Development After our previous blog post and webinar talking about some changes that came to iOS 11, some of the examiners here at Magnet Forensics decided to dive in deeper to figure out ways to help delay the one-hour timer that comes along with USB Restricted … Continued

Working with iOS Devices Post-11.4.1

by Chris Vance, MCFE, Magnet Forensics Manager, Training Curriculum Development With iOS 11, Apple decided to focus heavily on the end user’s security and privacy by releasing incremental updates that added several additional features. The initial release of iOS included: New security features, such as requiring the passcode to create a trust-pair relationship (changes from … Continued

New White Paper: Acquiring and Parsing Data from iOS 11 Devices

Over the past two years, Apple has steadily enhanced its iOS offerings designed for both security and user convenience. Each sub-version of both iOS 10 and 11 added or changed small features that have drastically changed the forensic workflow, making your job in some cases harder—and in other cases easier. We’re offering a new best … Continued

How Magnet AXIOM Helps You Develop Your Mobile Forensic Skills

With AXIOM, we try to take an approach that not only gets the job done for expert forensic examiners, but also introduces skills and concepts to new or intermediate level examiners at a level that they can easily absorb. Whether this is integrating the command-line memory analysis tool Volatility into our graphical user interface, or … Continued

Magnet AXIOM 2.1 Builds on the Advances of AXIOM 2.0

Fresh off the launch of Magnet AXIOM 2.0, we’ve updated Magnet AXIOM. In addition the new Case Dashboard, Volatility integration, and Magnet.AI updates we introduced AXIOM 2.0, Magnet AXIOM 2.1 brings some new updates that will give you more places to find evidence. Already using AXIOM? Download AXIOM 2.1 in-app or in the Customer Portal. … Continued