Host protected area (HPA) and device configuration overlay (DCO) are special hidden areas. They were developed as a feature by hard drive manufacturers for secure storage of vendor utilities or to make a drive appear to have smaller capacity than the drive actually has. But for a while now, proficient users Read more…
Atola TaskForce supports hash calculation of both the evidence drive and the image in conjunction with imaging. We have developed highly flexible functionality to help optimize evidence acquisition process to fit one’s internal procedures while avoiding further damage to fragile media. To calculate hash of both the evidence and the image: Click Read more…
2018 was an amazing year for Atola Technology! We look back at this important and eventful year and want to thank everyone who helped make it very special. Atola TaskForce launch First and foremost, we have launched Atola TaskForce, a breakthrough acquisition tool for the digital forensics market. It Read more…
Welcome to the December release of Atola TaskForce! In this firmware version you will enjoy: NVMe support: imaging of NVMe drives using M.2 extension module Imaging of all sectors with data: skip empty sectors and image data only, one partition at a time Improved interface: clickable and editable elements are now easily Read more…
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Atola TaskForce allows imaging to up to 5 targets at a time. The targets may include E01 or RAW (.img, .dd) file on a network server target drive plugged into one of 18 TaskForce ports To start an imaging session that includes 5 targets: 1) Click Image icon in the Read more…
We are again looking to extend our team of engineers! A new Hardware Engineer will join our Hardware team with the ever-increasing amount of work assembling units and developing new hardware solutions. We would like to extend and enhance our existing QA team and its skills set with a new QA Read more…
TaskForce automatically creates reports for every single action applied to each drive connected to it. The system also allows browsing through all cases and reports, without corresponding devices being connected to the unit. The reports are listed and can be easily retrieved in different parts of TaskForce software. 1. Via Read more…
We have just released version 2018.8 of Atola TaskForce software. This release includes over a hundred of new features and bug fixes. Among them are some advanced custom settings. For organizations that need to ensure that imaging is always performed with special settings, we have made it possible to create Read more…
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…