Atola Insight Forensic is a forensic data recovery tool, capable of imaging both good and damaged media.
Every once in a while forensic examiners come across hard drives that get shorted. In most cases, a drive has become shorted after experiencing overvoltage either due to a power supply failure or as a result of a user error. Here is what happens to drive in these scenarios and how to fix this.
We have just released Atola Insight Forensic 4.12 with Image file on source drive, automatic exFAT partition creation with performance-optimized parameters, hidden Smartware area detection for WD USB drives and other new exciting features!
We have just released version 4.11 of Atola Insight Forensic software. This edition includes APFS support in Imaging, File Recovery and Diagnostics, as well as extended Artifact search functionality and other great features! APFS Atola Insight now supports logical imaging of APFS partitions. To start the imaging, select All sectors Read more…
As we travel to exhibit at forensic events worldwide, we usually bring some of the fastest SSDs (usually Samsung 850 Pro) with us to show the speed at which they can be imaged with Atola Insight Forensic (on these drives, it constitutes around 500 MB/s). At the same time, we Read more…
For more information please read about the suggested workflow and hashing during imaging.
Imaging is a time-consuming part of the evidence acquisition process, especially when dealing with damaged drives. Even though Atola Insight Forensic is the fastest forensic imaging tool in the world (there is literally no penalty on a drive speed when you image it with Insight!), we want to help expedite Read more…
On December 5 Atola Technology releases Atola Insight Forensic 4.10. The key feature is the search of artifacts capability while imaging a source evidence media. It allows to search the source drive for credit cards, emails, URLs, IPs, GPS coordinates, phone numbers, keywords etc. in the course of imaging. This feature will help forensic Read more…
When you work with a damaged device, and imaging can only be performed in multiple passes due to bad sectors or physically damaged areas or heads, it is impossible to calculate linear hash of the drive. This can become a serious challenge if you need to prove evidence integrity in Read more…
Being able to evaluate the drive’s state before it has exhausted its resources can make all the difference between a case won or a case lost in a court of law. SMART table is a valuable source of information about a hard drive’s health. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) Read more…
We have just returned from Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference, which took place on September 18-20 in San Antonio, Texas. Here are some of the questions asked at this event, which we would like to share with you, along with our answers to them. Should you have further queries, Read more…