Author: BlackBag Training Team

By: Bruce Hunter, Senior Forensic Engineer Starting with macOS 10.12 Apple changed to a new Unified Log format.  Rather than relying on one file to track...

By: Bruce Hunter, Senior Forensic Engineer With the release of macOS 10.12 Sierra, Apple introduced a new form of logging referred to as Unified Logs.  These...

What is Missing from Logical Acquisitions? By: Tim Thorne, Solutions Engineer Over the past couple of weeks, I have attended several international events and customer meetings where...

By: Justin Matsuhara, Team Lead, Solutions Engineer & Stephanie Thompson, Solutions Engineer Depending on the digital forensic imaging tool you have available, creating a forensic image...

Within the DFIR community, support for fundamental structures, like file systems, across tools is essential for examiners to complete their work. BlackBag has provided industry-leading...

Direct physical access to evidentiary devices is not always feasible, if possible at all. It can require travel and time that examiners simply do not...

Apple has officially discontinued security updates for QuickTime on Windows, which opens the possibility for vulnerabilities. The Zero Day Initiative has already issued advisories for...

In Part 1 of this series, we examined at a very high level the purpose and benefits of memory forensics, and then took a look...

Internet history is a part of most forensic investigations today. Knowing how a user accessed a specific website is, in a lot of cases, just...

For examiners who aren't yet accustomed to using BlackLight every day in their casework, the following question sometimes arises, since the answer is not altogether...