Surviving Digital Forensics: Imaging a Mac Fusion Drive

Enhance your computer forensic skills with hands-on training using freely available software to image Macs and Fusion drives in just one hour.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about leveling up your computer forensic skills, specifically for Mac users. In just an hour, you'll get hands-on with imaging techniques using free tools. Perfect for both beginners and pros wanting to sharpen their skills!

Key Points

  • Learn to image a Mac using freely available software
  • Real hands-on experience with computer forensic tools
  • Understand basic imaging, hashing, and splitting images
  • Suitable for both newbies and experienced examiners
  • Covers Mac Fusion drives and partitions

Learning Outcomes

  • Gain practical experience in Mac imaging
  • Understand the use of DCFLDD and Terminal for forensics
  • Learn how to handle Mac Fusion drives and partitions
  • Familiarize with various hashing algorithms
  • Develop skills to customize forensic methods to suit your needs

About This Course

Helping you sharpen your computer forensic skills

Welcome to the Surviving Digital Forensics series. This series is focused on helping you become a better computer forensic examiner by teaching core computer forensic skills - all in about one hour.  In this class you will learn how to image a Mac using only a Mac and freely available software.  This will give you not only an additional imaging option but also provide you a solution for imaging Mac Fusion drives.

  As with previous SDF classes you will learn by doing. The class begins with a brief overview of the issue at hand. Then we set up our forensic systems and off we go. Learning is hands on and we will use low cost and no cost computer forensic tools to do so.

  Expert and novice computer forensic examiners alike will gain from this class. Since we are doing it the SDF way we are going to teach you real computer forensic skills that you can apply using our method or customize to meet your needs.  We cover basic imaging as well as some additional options you may need such as, splitting an image, using different hash algorithms, imaging partitions and more.

  Class Outline

  1. Introduction and Welcome to the SDF series

  2. What this class is all about

  3. How to get the most of this class

  4. The problem and the solution

  5. Getting your forensic system setup

  6. Imaging steps download

  7. Turning off Disk Arbitration

  8. Identifying your evidence in Terminal

  9. Imaging with DCFLDD

  10. Lock your DMG file

  11. DCFLDD breakdown

  12. Getting the DCFLDD version

  13. Using different hash algorithms

  14. Splitting your image

  15. Changing the image file extensions of your image segments

  16. Imaging partitions

  17.  Imaging Mac Fusion drives

  18. Mac imaging quiz

  18. Thank you & final thoughts

  A Mac running OS 10.9+ is required for this course.  If you are running 10.7 or 10.8 you likely will be okay, but a more up-to-date platform is recommended. The forensic tools we use are all freely available, so beyond your operating system all you need is the desire to become a better computer forensic examiner.

  • Image a Mac using just a Mac and freely available tools

  • Learn how to install DCFLDD on a Mac

  • Learn how to use DCFLDD in Terminal

Instructor

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Michael Leclair

Over 20 years of experience in Digital Forensics and Security Incident Response. Investigations span corporate (Fortune 500) incident response, technical litigation support for civil and criminal cases, and e-discovery. Author and developer of computer forensic training and analysis tools. Specialties include Windows forensics, Linux forensics, Mac forensics, & mobile device forensics. Certifications include: C|EH, CFCE, CISSP, EnCE, CCE

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Ajith S.
4.5
1 year ago

It was amazing.

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Deborah M.
5.0
2 years ago

Ew to it was but very understanding

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Helen M.
5.0
3 years ago

Great introduction so far, looking forward to the rest :)

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Seyed M. A.
1.0
7 years ago

He didn't Explain in details. just going...

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Eugene F.
4.0
8 years ago

Very good

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Bruce V. D. G.
4.0
10 years ago

I found this a good introductory course, but would like a bit more information -

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