This November, digital forensics examiners and law enforcement agencies from the Netherlands will gather again at the closed event dedicated to the latest technologies in the computer forensics field. The attendees of the conference will listen to the best experts in the area, network with like-minded colleagues and learn new things that can facilitate their work.

The event is also a great venue to stay up-to-date on what's happening in the world of forensics data recovery. Current innovations, trends, and solutions to the most burning issues will be presented by ACE Lab during the conference. Besides, the participants will be able to visit our workshop and ask different technical questions about the PC-3000 tools and their key features for digital forensics investigations.

ACE Lab is always open to new opportunities to connect and collaborate! This time, we took part in the Computer Forensics Congress on October 15, 2019, in Lisbon, and presented the PC-3000 Solutions to a wide audience on the territory of Portugal.

The event itself was a great professional convention that brought together a lot of forensic experts interested in the latest technological advances. The PC-3000 tools, showcased by our official partner, Ondata International, was awarded a peculiar interest in the community. Now they have in mind the solutions that can greatly help with evidence recovery from damaged or password-protected storage devices!

The following English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese software update is released:

• PC-3000 Flash software Ver. 7.3.7.

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

Please contact us to learn more on how to become an authorized technical support user and receive all of the recent PC-3000 Software Updates:

A SHORT LIST OF THE MAIN ENHANCEMENTS:

• Added resources of the complex ECC codes:
• Added the ability to put files with build errors or with ECC errors in a separate directory when saving files from folder structure.
• Added new Translator algorithm method “SanDisk 8 sec” which allows to significantly improve the resulting quality of recovery from UFD / SD / microSD cards based on SanDisk technology. It allows you to bypass the limitations of the classic Block Number:
  • Assemble images with the capacity of more than 32-64GB;
  • Use data from SLC cache;
  • Get complete folder structure including updates;
  • Recover video files from build translator image.

  This algorithm can reliably be used only in cases which require 8 sector size block building. In future updates more SanDisk CPU FW modifications will be added (MLC-memory cases, old cases with different SA location, etc).

• Added new Translator Algorithm for SM2704 controllers
• Added new Translator Algorithm for PS8036 controllers
• Added visual method for constructing the virtual image based on the file system, which allows you to manually select the most suitable candidates from the list of blocks. This image assembling algorithm might be very useful in cases when a translator is not available and SA area doesn't contain a marker for Block Number image building (modern SSS669x cases for example).
• Added new rereading algorithms:
  • Sandisk MLC Ver 1
  • Sandisk MLC Ver 2
  • Sandisk MLC 15nm

CHECK OUT ALL THE NEW FEATURES HERE.

For the third time in a row, ACE Lab became the partner of the Forensic Technology Day (FT-Day), the largest IT-forensics industry conference in Germany. The event hosted by our German partner mh SERVICE GmbH is growing every year – this time it was attended by more than 125 forensic investigators, cybercrime experts, and representatives of government agencies from Germany and neighboring countries.

The FT-Day’s participants had a lot of questions on how to deal with devices that are somehow damaged or have password protection to be bypassed. So, the turnout at our booth and sessions was just overwhelming!

During the event, we held a presentation on the Media Cache in modern Seagate SMR Hard Disk Drives and a series of live demos to showcase PC-3000 in action. The first day ended with a networking dinner where the attendees could exchange ideas on the newest developments in the digital forensics field.

On the second day, the conference guests were able to attend our workshop on top tips & tricks to recovering evidence from modern HDD and SSD. They were very impressed by the PC-3000 Portable III functions and received a valuable knowledge of forensics data recovery from password-protected HDD, HDD with damaged heads, Media Cache of Seagate SMR Drives, logically damaged ADATA SU800 SSD (by deactivating TRIM) and SanDisk Ultra II.

Do you want to see PC-3000 in action as well? Then follow our news and see you at the upcoming events!