Week 18 – 2016

Week 18! Software updates DVR Examiner was updated to version 1.21.0 adding support to the ICATCH_264 and JDX_264 file systems as well as correcting some bugs and making improvements to existing file system support. DVR Examiner 1.21.0 – Support for ICATCH, ELEC and more! Nuix version 7 has been released to their customers and apparently […]

Week 17 – 2016

Week 17! Software updates Eric Zimmerman has updated bstings to version 1.1. The new version adds a few new switchings to allow output suppression, regex matching for individual matches as opposed to the entire string and inputting search strings from a file. There were also minor performance improvements. bstrings v1.1 released! Eric also updated LECmd […]

Week 16 – 2016

Week 16! Software updates Magnet Forensics updated IEF to version 6.7.7. It’s important to note that this version no longer works on 32-bit Windows.  This version contains improvements to SQL database searches, adds support for iOS 8/9 SMS/MMS, Shareaza library files, history and bookmarks in the iOS Dolphin and Puffin Browsers, Android TextNow and Textfree […]

Week 15 – 2016

Week 15! Software updates Oxygen Forensics updated their Detective product to version 8.3.1. The new version adds physical acquisition for newer Samsung Galaxy devices, improves support for certain Blackberry, iOS and Android apps, extracts information about Wi-Fi connections from Windows Phone devices and small interface and usability improvements have been made to the inbuilt mapping […]

Week 14 – 2016

Week 14! Software updates Tz works released their March update last week. Several of their tools were updated including jmp, pf, vssenum, cafae,  as well as various bug fixes. The updates were as follows: – Jump List Parsing – jmp (version 0.38)- updated to support Win10 jumplists – Prefetch Parsing – pf (version 1.16) – […]

Week 13 – 2016

Week 13 Software updates X-ways 17.4 SR8 has been released with minor improvements and bug fixes X-Ways Forensics 18.7 SR-8 Craig Wilson updated NetAnalysis to version 2.4 and HstEx to version 4.4. “This release brings support for Google Chrome’s History Provider Cache and Network Action Predictors, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge Typed URLs and Bookmarking […]

Week 12 – 2016

Week 12! I’ve had to cut this week short by a day because of other commitments, but I’ll just add the rest to next weeks update. Software updates Adam at Hexacorn updated dexray to version 0.6. The update adds support avast quarantine files. DeXRAY – Update Oxygen forensics detective has updated to version 8.3. The […]

Week 11 – 2016

Week 11! Software updates Eric Zimmerman updated his AppCompatCacheParser to version 0.0.7.0. This included package updates and some clean up AppCompatCacheParser v0.0.7.0 Paul Sanderson updated Forensic Browser for Sqlite to version 2.7.6. This update includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes New release 2.7.6 – lots of enhancements X-ways 17.4 SR7 has been released […]

Week 10 – 2016

Week 10! Software Updates: Craig Wilson at Digital Detective has updated his Blade file carving tool to version 1.12 and added a few new features and bug fixes. The main features are improved carving of OLE2 and ZIP files. I’m not sure if Datadump was previously part of blade but Wilson explains it’s a standalone […]

Week 9 – 2016

Week 9! Software Updates: Sumuri have updated Paladin Edge64 to version 6.08, to support newer technologies such as nvRAM and eMMC flash drives found in popular products such as the newer MacBooks and HP Stream computers. PALADIN (64-bit) – Version 6.08 Passware updated to 2016 v.2 with a few new features including data acquisition from […]