Repairing evidential mobile devices has never been more important. Device encryption may hamper physical extraction methods such as chip-off and direct eMMC and therefore it has become increasingly important for digital forensic units to be able to repair evidential exhibits in-house.

We’re delighted to announce details, dates and pricing for our new Mobile Device Repair training course which aims to teach delegates how to troubleshoot damaged devices and then repair them in a time and cost-effective manner.

Full details including dates, pricing and our course flyer can be found on our website here.

Due to increased demand for places, we have added an extra Foundation in Mobile Phone Forensics course into our schedule, running 18-22 March. This 4½ day course is designed for staff starting out in mobile device forensics and prepares them for undertaking evidential casework.
In the words of two delegates from our September 2018 course:

• “Best course I’ve been on in 20 years in the job!”
• “The trainer was superb, the course was fun, dynamic and interactive.”

Contact us to enquire about availability

For the first time in 4 years, our prices will be increasing in January 2019. The price rise applies to bookings received after December 31st 2018.

You can still book courses taking place in 2019 at our current prices by submitting your booking forms before January 1st 2019.

Although the cost of purchasing a new Training Pass will increase, the credit costs for individual courses will remain the same (so current holders of a Training Pass are not affected).

Get in touch if you would like more information.

We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new 3½ day hex analysis training course for digital forensic practitioners, Demystifying Hex Data. This intermediate level course will explain hex data in simple terms and give existing mobile forensic examiners a true understanding of the data recovered and decoded by forensic software tools. Delegates will leave the course confident in navigating and carving data using a hex editor, and capable of recovering and presenting evidence which commercial forensic tools may have missed.

The course not only covers text encodings (including ASCII and Unicode), regular expressions and Endian-ness but crucially shows delegates how these concepts have practical application in tasks such as finding and then repairing unplayable 3GP/MP4 video files.

Our next scheduled course runs 9-12 July 2018 at Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire (UK). Get in touch to check availability.

Samsung introduced UFS flash memory with the Samsung Galaxy S6 on account of it’s faster read/write speeds compared with eMMC chips. Samsung uses UFS in the S7 and will in the S8, and the technology is being adopted in flagship devices from other manufacturers. Performing chip-off on UFS flash memory is possible but requires specific equipment and variations on standard techniques.

Our 4½ Flash Memory Chip Removal training course teaches students how to safely remove and recover evidence from eMMC, UFS and proprietary flash memory chip formats. The techniques are ideally suited to locked, damaged or unsupported devices where no other practical option exists for extracting data. Students will get hands-on experience of performing chip-off on a Samsung Galaxy S6.

Here’s what delegates on our March 2017 course had to say:

• “Probably the most I’ve learnt on any course I’ve been on.  Good group and good trainers and good learning material”
• “Very professional and enthusiastic trainers who are a credit to the company.  I would have no hesitation in recommending this course or any other Control-F courses”

Get in touch to check availability on our next course.