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4.21.0 Release with Faster Search and Malware Scanning
The 4.21 version of Autopsy is out and this blog post will cover three of the most notable new features. You can see the full list of changes here. We’re ...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.20.0 is Finally Out With New Pipelines and Fixes
After over 1-year, a new Autopsy release is out and this blog post will cover some of the new features, outline why we’ve been unusually silent for a year, and ...
Learn moreAutopsy and Log4J Vulnerability
This post outlines Autopsy and the associated Log4J vulnerability released in Dec 2021 and outlined in CVE 2021-44228. The last several Autopsy releases (the most recent was 4.19.2 on Nov 11) ...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.19.0 with Hosts, Analysis Results, and OS Accounts
By Brian Carrier Autopsy 4,19.0 is out! We got a bit off from our quarterly release cycle in the past year and this release has code that started 9-months ago. So ...
Learn moreYara, Android (aLEAPP), Domains, and More in 4.18.0
The Autopsy 4.18.0 release is out with lots of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. This blog dives a little deeper into some key digital forensics features. New Android, iOS, ...
Learn more#OSDFCon 2020, One for the Record Books
While many events were feeling downsized and forlorn with having to go virtual, the Open Source Digital Forensics Conference this year was a huge success — the largest virtual event ...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.17 Highlights (Summary, iLEAPP, & HEIC)
Autopsy 4.17 is out with a long list of changes. Let’s cover a few new things that were introduced. You’ll notice a common theme that these were incrementally released with ...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.16 Release Highlights
Autopsy 4.16.0 is out and has a lot of new enhancements and fixes. You can see the detailed list and get the downloads from here. This blog highlights a few ...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.15 Release Highlights
Autopsy 4.15 is out and we wanted to cover some of the key new features. You can download Autopsy from here and see the full list of changes here. Central Repository ...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.14 Release Highlights
This blog summarizes some of the highlights of the latest Autopsy release. It’s a new format to give you a summary of the most important changes. The full list of ...
Learn moreGetting Data Into the Communications UI
As part of our work with DHS S&T, we added some new features last year into Autopsy around storing and displaying messaging-based data. You could always store messages and contact ...
Learn moreData Source-level Focus in Large Cases
The 4.8.0 release of Autopsy is out and the major themes in the release are: Focus on data source-level review in large cases Keyword search accuracy improvements Tagging efficiencies Plus lots ...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.7 Includes Link Analysis, Database Viewers, Triage, and More
With the latest Autopsy release, you have access to many new features and fixes. This post will give a high-level overview of the notable ones. Communications: The previous 4.6.0 release ...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.6 Includes New Communications Viewers, Encryption Detection, and More.
The latest release (4.6.0) of Autopsy introduces many new features and fixes and this post will give a high-level overview of the notable ones. We’ll dive into details in the ...
Learn moreCorrelate Cases and Get Intelligence
Overview Starting with Autopsy 4.5.0, you can now determine when a file or phone number (or other artifact) was seen in a previous case. You can also be alerted when an ...
Learn moreTriage Media With Autopsy 4.4.0
With the new Autopsy 4.4.0 release, we introduced some new triage features that help you more quickly answer some questions about a hard drive or smart phone. The goal of ...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.1.0 Release
Autopsy 4.1.0 has been released after a long drought. So, it has a longer list of features than usual. You can download it from sleuthkit.org. Here is a quick summary of ...
Learn moreCollaborative Autopsy: How It Works
At OSDFCon this year, we launched a new version of Autopsy with a number of collaboration features. The fundamental interface and end use of Autopsy hasn’t changed with the new ...
Learn moreCollaborate on Cases with Autopsy 4.0
At the Open Source Digital Forensics Conference last week, we announced the launch of Autopsy 4.0, the free and open source digital forensics platform that now adds major features promoting ...
Learn moreThe Volatility team talks proactive threat hunting with memory forensics (an OSDFCon presentation)
Our final OSDFCon blog series featured speaker is actually a collective: the team behind the nonprofit Volatility Foundation. This year, memory forensics has evolved once more, and the Volatility team ...
Learn moreThe advantages of cloud computing for forensic analysis (an OSDFCon presentation)
Google team members are back on our blog this week for another installment of our blog series on the speakers and topics we’re offering at OSDFCon this coming October. This ...
Learn moreA case study in new generation timeline tools (an OSDFCon presentation)
This week’s featured speaker in our OSDFCon blog series is Daniel White, a security engineer at Google. Daniel is offering both a lecture at OSDFCon and a half-day workshop the ...
Learn morePython Autopsy Module Tutorial #3: The Report Module
It’s time for the final Python tutorial in this series and just in time to give you a chance to write something for the OSDFCon Autopsy Module Competition. In our ...
Learn moreIntroducing SQUID: Don’t miss evidence because the app updated! (an OSDFCon presentation)
This week we continue our blog series covering the speakers and topics we’re offering at OSDFCon in Herndon this coming October. Ryan Benson, a digital forensic examiner at Stroz Friedberg's ...
Learn moreA plugin that overcomes the limits of traditional denylist file-hash comparisons (an OSDFCon presentation)
This week we continue our blog series covering the speakers and topics we’re offering at OSDFCon in Herndon this coming October. Michael McCarrin and Bruce Allen, Research Associates at the ...
Learn moreInferring Past Activity from Partial Digital Artifacts (an OSDFCon presentation)
This week we continue our blog series covering the speakers and topics we’re offering at OSDFCon in Herndon this coming October. Jim Jones, Associate Professor of Computer Forensics and Cybersecurity ...
Learn moreOpen Source Live Data Collection for Incident Response (an OSDFCon presentation)
With this year’s topics and speakers now lined up for OSDFCon, we thought we’d take the time to highlight each speaker’s work that led them to join us in Herndon, ...
Learn morePython Autopsy Module Tutorial #2: The Data Source Ingest Module
In our last blog post, we built a basic Python Autopsy module that looked for big and round files. In our second post in the Autopsy: Python Module Series, we’re ...
Learn morePython Autopsy Module Tutorial #1: The File Ingest Module
There is still plenty of time to work on an Autopsy module that will get you cash prizes (and bragging rights) from Basis Technology at OSDFCon 2015. The easiest way for most people to write ...
Learn moreBasis Technology Enhances Digital Media Investigations With Autopsy 3.1
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 26, 2014 -- Basis Technology, the global leader in multilingual Big Text analytics and digital forensics solutions, today announced the availability of Autopsy 3.1, the latest version ...
Learn moreAutopsy 3 Training Class
Herndon, VA | Basis Technology Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 9:00 AM | Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 5:00 PM (EDT) Autopsy is a premier end-to-end open source digital forensics platform for hard drive analysis that ...
Learn moreOnline Autopsy Forensics Tool Training Sept. 24, 2014
Learn about the ins and outs of Autopsy 3 from the team that develops Autopsy. By popular demand, we are offering our first online, instructor-led Autopsy 3 training course on Wednesday, ...
Learn moreAutopsy for Special Operations and Field Analysis
Medium-Dive MEDEX At the 2014 SOFIC (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference) we demonstrated how Autopsy could be used in conjunction with text analytics to gather better intelligence in the field. Military and law enforcement ...
Learn moreDigging for Data, Finding Evidence in Third-Party Applications – DFI NEWS
With the global smartphone market expected to total 1.75 billion users this year,1 it is rare for an investigator to conduct a digital forensic investigation that does not include a smartphone. ...
Learn moreMobile Forensics Tools Hammer Out Evidence – GNC
Companies that offer technologies for mobile forensics – the art of extracting digital evidence from smartphones – face a raft of challenges developing tools in today’s breakneck mobile device market. For ...
Learn moreBasis Technology Enhances Digital Forensics Capabilities of the Department of Homeland Security and Law Enforcement With Autopsy 3
Provides Open Source Digital Forensics Software to Increase Investigation Efficiency and Precision CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 12, 2014 -- Basis Technology, the global leader in multilingual search, text analytics and open source ...
Learn moreBrian Carrier discusses the origins of Autopsy on The Cyber Jungle
Brian Carrier spoke with Ira Victor, host of The CyberJungle a very highly rated news talk show on security, privacy and the law. They talked about the origins of Autopsy and The Sleuth Kit, ...
Learn moreAutopsy Training
Basis Technology will be running an Autopsy training session on March 19-20, 2014. Register by February 19 to receive the early bird rate. Autopsy 3 Training Class Basis Technology Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 9:00 AM - ...
Learn moreOSDFCon Autopsy Module Development Contest Results
As readers of this blog know, Autopsy was designed to be a digital forensics platform that other open source developers can build modules for. To help motivate other developers to ...
Learn moreBasis Technology Executive to Speak at Defense One Summit
Expert in Digital Forensics to Discuss the Affects of Cyber Growth on Industry and Innovation Cambridge—November 14, 2013—Basis Technology, the global leader in multilingual search and text analytics, announced today that ...
Learn moreSupporting Collaboration Across the Intelligence Community – Signal Magazine
SIGNAL Magazine, an AFCEA publication exploring trends and techniques in defense, intelligence and global security technology, wrote an excellent article discussing how Basis Technology’s HIGHLIGHT software is helping the Intelligence ...
Learn moreFree Autopsy Training For Law Enforcement
As we recently blogged about, we’re offering Autopsy Training on November 6 & 7 after the Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (OSDFCon) Autopsy is an easy to use tool and the course provides an overview ...
Learn moreAutopsy Training following Open Source Digital Forensics Conference
Basis Technology is offering an Autopsy training class directly following the Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (http://OSDFCon.org) in Chantilly, VA. This is part of an initial push to establish the premier training ...
Learn moreApache Solr Driven Keyword Searching in Autopsy
Keyword searching is a common and widely used investigation technique across all varieties of digital investigations. On the surface, it seems fairly straightforward - figure out what names, places, things, ...
Learn moreRunning Autopsy 3 Digital Forensics Platform on WinFE Lite for Triage Forensics
Windows Forensics Environment (WinFE) is a bootable operating system environment that can be used for forensic examinations. It provides a live boot environment that allows you to examine a suspect ...
Learn moreFree Autopsy Video Triage Module Released
Basis Technology has just released v1.0 of a new module for the Autopsy Digital Forensics Platform - Video Triage for Autopsy. Video content analysis can be time consuming for an ...
Learn moreAutopsy Feature: Graphical Timeline Analysis for Cyber Forensics
Overview Timelines are useful in digital forensics for identifying when activity occurred on a computer and are mainly used for data reduction or identifying specific state changes that have occurred on ...
Learn moreBasis Mobile Forensics Technical Lead to Speak at Cyber Defense Initiative 2012 in Washington DC
How often do you work with mobile devices? Knock-off handsets are prevalent in Asia, Europe and are infiltrating the borders of the United States. Commercial forensic tools do not provide ...
Learn more2012 Conference Presentations Online for Digital Forensics, Search, Human Language Technology
The first week in October was very exciting at Basis Technology. We held our annual trio of government conferences covering open source digital forensic tools, open source search, and human ...
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