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How To Leverage Your Exception Bin

Picture of a recycle bin

For years we have been talking about the Exception Bin in Digital Forensics.  In Electronic Discovery, this is typically referred to as the Exception Report.  When searching through Electronically Stored Information (ESI), otherwise known as Computer Files, there are files

Dark Data Rob August 1, 2025August 5, 2025 Computer Forensics, Digital Forensics, eDiscovery, File Formats No Comments Read more

Data Carving vs File Carving vs Disk Carving

Data Carving vs File Carving vs Disk Carving

In Digital Forensics/Cyber Forensics and Data Recovery, we often need to recover lost or deleted unstructured files which is typically referred to as carving the files from data storage.  What does carving mean, and why is it called Data Carving,

Dark Data Rob February 28, 2024February 29, 2024 Computer Forensics, Data Carving, Data Recovery, Digital Forensics, File Formats, Industry Terms 4 Comments Read more

Byte Value Distribution (BVD)

BVD256

Before you can do anything with an unstructured file, you first need to identify its file type.  Our products start with the following steps: Calculate hashes (MD5, SHA-1, etc.) for the entire file, and match them to known good and/or

Dark Data Rob April 29, 2023February 28, 2024 Computer Forensics, Digital Forensics, File Expander, File Formats, File Investigator, Industry Terms No Comments Read more

Unstructured Data

Unstructured Data

Unstructured Data sounds like files that store disorganized data or simple text, but I see it as more of a classification term than the description of a file’s lack of internal data structures.  Some examples, provided in an article by

Dark Data Rob August 31, 2022February 28, 2024 Data Classification, Document Management, eDiscovery, File Formats, Industry Terms No Comments Read more

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