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Free tutorials on our new YouTube channel
/in News /by Kevin MansellWe’ve been teaching our delegates how to make sense of binary and hexadecimal for many years both during training courses and event workshops. We’ve always received good feedback on those sessions from delegates and so we felt that it made sense to share our explanations of these fundamental concepts more widely. We’ve recently launched a […]
Join our Combating Data Hiding Techniques webinar (Thu 21 May 2pm BST)
/in News /by Kevin MansellThanks to those who supported last week’s “Making Sense of Android Encryption” webinar (recorded version available here). We’re keeping the band together and have another show for you. We will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday May 21st at 2pm British Summer Time entitled: “Combating Data Hiding Techniques on Mobile Devices” in which […]
Join our Android Encryption webinar (Thu 7 May 2pm BST)
/in News /by Kevin MansellLast week’s “Cloud Forensics Primer” webinar was very well attended (recorded version available here), and so we’re hosting another next week. We will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday May 7th at 2pm British Summer Time entitled: “Making Sense of Android Encryption” in which we’ll explore Android Full Disk Encryption, the role of […]
Join our Cloud Forensics webinar (Thu 23 April 2pm BST)
/in News /by Kevin MansellWe were delighted with the interest and attendance of our recent webinar “Android Location Services & Adoptable Storage” (recorded version available), and so we’re running another next week. We will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday April 23rd at 2pm British Summer Time entitled: “Cloud Forensics Primer” in which we’ll explore all things cloud […]
Join our Android forensics webinar (Thu 9 April 2pm BST)
/in News /by Kevin MansellAlthough our classroom might be temporarily closed, we’re working hard to deliver content that our customers and the wider community can access. We will be hosting a Zoom webinar on Thursday April 9th at 2pm British Summer Time entitled: “Understanding Android Location Services & Adoptable Storage” which we hope will allow attendees to examine Android […]
Successful pilot courses for Mobile Device Repair
/in News /by Kevin MansellWith our first Mobile Device Repair training course scheduled to run w/c 11th May 2020, we’re delighted with the smooth running of two back-to-back pilot courses for a law enforcement customer. Over the two courses in Leeds, sixteen delegates learned how to: Troubleshoot damaged devices to identify underlying faults Determine whether a potential repair was […]
Control-F COVID-19 update
/in News /by Kevin MansellThe coronavirus outbreak is affecting people and businesses worldwide. Neither Control-F nor its staff are immune to that (although that would be nice) and we thought it would be helpful to explain how the ever-evolving situation is affecting how we serve our customers. We have postponed some courses which were scheduled for the coming weeks. […]
Giving something back
/in News /by Kevin MansellIf you’ve attended training at our Wyboston Lakes facilities over recent months you may have noticed our featured charity noticeboard just outside the classroom. Each quarter Control-F makes a donation to a charity selected by a staff member. We try and select smaller charities where our donation might make more of an impact. This year […]
New Mobile Device Repair training for 2020
/in News /by Kevin MansellRepairing 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 […]
Recovering “boot looping” Samsung devices
/in News /by Kevin MansellAre you experiencing issues with Samsung devices becoming stuck in a “boot loop” and never progressing past the Samsung logo when starting up? Commercial forensic tools sometimes experience problems when attempting to perform lock bypass and/or physical extractions of Samsung devices and these issues can result in the examiner being unable to boot the device […]
Extra Foundation in Mobile Phone Forensics course date added
/in News /by Kevin MansellDue 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: […]
Squeezing even more out of your training budget
/in News /by Kevin MansellOur next Demystifying Hex Data course runs 4-7 March and we’re offering a special incentive to those who want to recover more evidence from apps and physical extractions. If you book one delegate place on the March course at full price, you will be entitled to book a place for a colleague at half price. […]