Christopher Vance

The Mobile Unpacked Artifact Hunt challenge begins! - Magnet Forensics Ready to turn artifacts into a fun reward?   Let’s dig into the digital and uncover hidden insights with our Mobile Unpacked: Artifact Hunt Challenge—a fun, knowledge-based way to explore key mobile f...

ICYMI: During yesterday's Mobile Unpacked I announced a new challenge! The Mobile Unpacked Artifact Hunt will begin next month. Be sure to keep a watch on the main Mobile Unpacked landing page as well for hint drops!

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Kyli Walls painting of a racoon kaiju setting a cabin on fire with its godzilla-esque flame breath

current mood

They say “go play Minecraft instead.”

Do NOT miss today's episode if you're doing iOS collections! The actions you take and when you take them can ABSOLUTELY impact the amount of data recovered! PRESERVE your data by using the right tools, the right way.

Digital Forensic professionals are just raccoons. We are digital dumpster divers searching for goodies.

Trash Panda squad, go!

I’m headed back to Australia and New Zealand again! Looking forward to showing some awesome new stuff from our product teams and my latest iOS/Android research!

Funny enough this is going to become really important for next month’s episode on mobile AI services like Siri, Galaxy AI, and Gemini. Want to see it early? I’ll be debuting the talk at MUS in Nashville! Come join us!

Don’t forget! Today at 1 eastern you can watch the latest Mobile Unpacked as an MVS early release!

To start the year, and Season 3 (what?!) of Mobile Unpacked, we’re going back to basics on ADB. Come learn what makes the protocol what it is, how it works, and how you can recover information that would otherwise be lost without these valuable commands!

Suuuuuuuuuuuure. But thanks for the free malware!

Image of a variety of knives all labeled with a different type of material they are designed for cutting like Ham, Bread, Cheese, etc. At the bottom of the image is a light saber labeled "For people that don't use UTC for logging"

#DFIR #DFIRHumor

Thanks to insomnia, I have now watched Hans Gruber fall from Nakitomi Tower.

Christmas has officially begun!

Hey Siri are you using ChatGPT?

Siri: no. But yes. Maybe. But yes.

The ‘Ghost Gun’ Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows Just How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come The design of the gun police say they found on the alleged United Healthcare CEO's killer—the FMDA or “Free Men Don’t Ask”—was released by a libertarian group.

Seeing 3D-printed evidence getting called out in such large cases is exactly why I did my 3D Printer artifacts research last year.

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What’s the best Christmas movie and why is it Muppet’s Christmas Carol?

In this 27-part dissertation I will explain…

Enjoy Texas!

#bringBackDumbphones

Same. I can’t remember the last time I actually turned that off.

I just wish we could have a tiered notification approach for what gets shown on screens. Calls / messages / critical alerts-Tier 1. Random person update from an app I haven’t opened in two weeks on purpose? Get that shit outta here.

I think many of us are reaching the point of notification fatigue. Too many apps are constantly pinging us because we haven’t used or to show “deals.”

While I know many apps have notification tweaks, I wish the major OSes would segment notification permissions. Give me a setting for only key ones!

They’re unfortunately not the only ones. I had my bank do the same thing (Huntington).

Some days you just know are going to be a struggle.

Like when you try to put on a t-shirt as pants.

Cut to me on any lecture on web browsers:

“Chrome is chrome is chrome is chrome. Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, whatever. And most other browsers too. It’s all Chrome or Chromium. Learn to parse it. You can’t escape it.”

Ep. 23 // Following the Money | Tracking Mobile Payment Artifacts - Magnet Forensics With iOS and Android both having tap-to-pay payment functionality built in, it’s opened up a great opportunity for tracking where and how they’re using this feature.

On November 27, join me for the latest Episode of Mobile Unpacked where I go over Tap-To-Pay artifacts on iOS and Android. Don’t leave valuable location data behind! www.magnetforensics.com/resources/ep...

Just finished recording this month’s episode of Mobile Unpacked. It was a fun one that led me down several paths I hadn’t explored before!

That being said, I’m done with looking at protobufs for a while.

“Meat”

Just a few more weeks then no more Masters courses. That’s all I need to survive.

Apple’s transfer of files/records via “the boop” (unified logs IYKYK) extends to Apple Cash. Interesting way to start paying individuals, but how about long term storage?

Passes23.sqlite still has your back.