«Many storage devices and adapter boards look alike. When holding a module with a connector that looks suspiciously like the M.2, how do you know exactly what you are dealing with? Is that M.2 board a SATA drive, a fast NVMe device or a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo? Will a drive removed from an Apple computer work […]»

17 March, 2026Oleg Afonin

«Picture this: you just dropped $1,300 on a brand-new, top-of-the-line Android flagship. You unbox it, peel off the plastic film, boot it up, and get ready for the daily grind. But before you can even sync your contacts, you notice the app drawer is already cluttered with unsolicited apps. If you think this is a problem […]»

13 March, 2026Oleg Afonin

«This article concludes our series on Windows forensic artefacts and the role they play in real-world investigations. Over the past several weeks, we looked at evidence sources that help investigators understand activity at the system level, from Windows Event Logs and the Windows Registry to file system traces stored under C:\Windows and C:\ProgramData. Those artefacts […]»

12 March, 2026Oleg Afonin