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Digital Forensic Tool Capability

Digital Forensic Tool Capability

Digital forensic tools are trusted to deliver complete data sets for evidential purposes but testing shows variations that impact consistency and scope. Tool

manufacturers constantly bring out updates, patches, and new versions of tools to improve performance. Competition between vendors accelerates tool capability and a comparison of tools over a ten-year period shows innovation and capability growth. In our research we took two industry standard tools and applied them to evidence extraction in the emergent area of social networking forensics. The results showed variation between the tools and also capability limitations. One of the vital elements that digital forensics investigators needed in order to perform an effective forensics investigation is have knowledge of the right tool for each context and case. 

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Coming up in the Next issue of Digital Forensics Magazine

Coming up in Issue 39 on sale from February 2019:


Making Sense of Digital Forensic International Standards

To many the complexity of Standards, their numbering and obscure contents fail to make practical sense and confuse the entry points for effective use. A roadmap is provided in this paper for Standard information access and optimal use. Read More »

Evidentiary Challenges: Social media, the Dark Web, and Admissibility

This article takes a look at two categories of remote evidence: social media, and the dark web. We will also examine two interesting cases: The Target store credit card breach; and the civil case of Fero v Excellus Health Plan, Inc. Read More »

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Vehicle Data Forensics on Unsupported Systems

The article will help readers understand how to approach a vehicle from a digital forensics’ perspective, it will cover a range of infotainment units from popular manufacturers, data extraction methods and examples of data types found which may be considered intelligence and or used as digital evidence. Read More »

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