Want to flex your investigative muscles? Test your #DFIR skills, solve real-world challenges, and win prizes by taking part in the #MagnetVirtualSummit 2026 #CaptureTheFlag on Feb 26!
Learn more in this blog from Hexordia’s @b1n2h3x.bsky.social: ow.ly/o05R50XRe7t
Thanks to a DoJ funded project, Oklahoma State University and @Hexordia are excited to offer a FREE On Demand IoT Forensics - Analyzong Smart Devices course to US Law Enforcement. The course is now available!!!
Please register here by Sept 30, 2025 for access bit.ly/IoT4n6OnDemand
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Check out our first episode of the #TruthInData podcast! Our topic this week: Evidence Gone: The Perils of Delayed Mobile Acquisition
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With Debbie Garner & Kim Bradley #DFIR
So excited to collab with Debbie Garner and Kim Bradley on the #TruthInData podcast to bring a weekly deep dive into a different digital forensic topic each week! Subscribe to the Hexordia YouTube channel and never miss the conversation. #DFIR youtube.com/@hexordia
Interesting paper from Hannes Spichiger & Hexordia’s Frank Adelstein on “Preserving meaning of evidence from evolving systems” - how do we test to ensure that we understand the meaning of data at the time it was created? #DFIR
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mobile evidence? Image as soon as you can!
Acquisition 👏 is 👏 Prervation
Check out Lars Daniel’s article to learn why! #DFIR
www.forbes.com/sites/larsda...
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Thanks for catching up with me Forensic Focus!
Acquisition 👏 is 👏 Preservation!
Without it we are loosing potentially Exculpatory and Inculpatory evidence.
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Keep talking about it!!!
I brought it up in a workshop I was doing today!
Preservation 👏 is 👏 Acquisition 👏
Important must read position paper from Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) about the use of timely acquisition to preserve evidence. Mobile data has potential to degrade each day you wait to do an acquisition. #DFIR www.swgde.org/25-f-001/
Missed the @magnetforensics.bsky.social Virtual Summit #CTF but want the images for testing and learning? We have already shared them with @nist.bsky.social CFReDS cfreds.nist.gov/all/Hexordia...
Many thanks to Magnet Forensics, Hexordia, and the CTF authors for this great experience! Glad the timing worked out that I was able to participate - really enjoyable, creative, and challenging. Still may go back and look at some more of these questions..
Glad you enjoyed it!! You did great. The board is open till Feb 28. Would love to see how you solved some of these!
Thanks for playing! Hope it was fun :)
Congratulations to the winners of the Magnet Forensic Virtual Summit 2025 CTF powered by Hexordia
1st place: @deagler
2nd Place: @Cognitor4n6
3rd Place: @Potato
1st Place Team: @X
Still time to play for the First to Finish!
#MVS2025CTF #DFIR
Sometimes you need to deal with data from a protocol buffer. Here are some tools to help! #DFIR
github.com/protocolbuff...
github.com/mildsunrise/...
www.cclsolutionsgroup.com/forensic-pro... (Grab a 30 day trial of this - it does SO MUCH more!)
Looking for a good source of forensic tools, blogs, and cheat sheets? Check out @stark4n6.bsky.social Forensic Start Me #DFIR
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Today, Feb 10, is the last day to sign up for the Magnet Forensics Virtual Summit 2025 #CTF! Sign up by 5pm ET to play #DFIR -
Want to break down what is in a URL? Try Unfurl from Ryan Benson and gain further insights! dfir.blog/unfurl/
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#DFIR 💭 of the Day: Consensus based documents are important to our field.
SWGDE is constantly working on development of standards Feeling left out of the current meeting, several draft documents are in the public comment period. Consider reading and submitting comments www.swgde.org/documents/dr...
Agreed. Technology allows smart people to focus on challenges and harder problems. But there are those who will think it is a replacement. That said, those that are less skilled or merely tool operators are a different story.
#DFIR 💭 of the Day: AI doesn’t know what it doesn’t know.
This is one of the super powers of Human #DFIR pros - when we don’t know - we test, we validate, we learn. And those findings aren’t always what a “synthesized assumption” would propose as an axiom.
#DFIR 💭 of the Day: playing a #CTF as a team can elevate your labs skills
This year the @MagnetForensics DFIR CTF allows for team or solo play! Great opportunity for your team to
work together to solve challenges helping your lab level up! www.hexordia.com/blog/play-ctf
#DFIR 💭 of the Day: Challenges keep your skills sharp for solving unknowns
How do you train and prepare for things you don’t expect? You learn *how* to test & understand artifacts Check out the Sunday Funday from @HECFBlog www.hecfblog.com/2025/01/dail...
DFIR 💭 of the Day: It is important for practitioners and academics to collaborate
The intersection allows for academics to understand practitioner issues to inform research and for practitioners to be aware of advancements in the science of Digital Forensics.
#DFIR 💭 of the day: it is critical that Legal Professionals understand digital evidence
While digital forensics professionals are there to give meaning and detailed analysis, legal professionals still need education. Great content at the Magnet Forensics User Summit! magnetusersummit.com/passes/
