This guest post comes from James Cadden of East Lansdowne Police. In early February of 2018, a suspected arson fire destroyed a 40-year-old family business in our small community. The family, employees, and neighbors were devastated. A DVR security camera system was operating in the business at the time of the fire and quickly became the onlyRead more
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From the DME Forensics Case Files: Without DVR Examiner, we do not believe the data would have been retrieved while on-scene as the Detective would have thought there was no data of interest.
Read through this blog for some tips on how to use the DVR Examiner offset feature adjust for incorrect timestamps and easily identify your event of interest.
Starting with version 2.1.0, DVR Examiner now includes the ability to add tags to any clip identified by DVR Examiner. Learn more about this new feature in our latest blog post.
As a forensic investigator, you often face time-sensitive situations, where the accuracy of your evidence can make or break a case. By using DVR Examiner, you can save both time and money in these situations, but it helps to know how to use the tool effectively.
How do we ensure the video recovered with DVR Examiner is the same as the video on the disk? We extract video byte for byte to be sure all data is forensically sound.
The DVR Examiner Updater application allows you to continuously update your existing version of DVR Examiner with newly supported filesystems and improvements to existing filesystems as we finalize them.
In most instances, when video is deleted through the DVR interface, only the index (or accessibility) to that video is being deleted. Assuming the video itself has not been overwritten, DVR Examiner may be able to recover it.
One of the most common questions our technical support team receives is “Is my DVR supported by DVR Examiner?”. Unfortunately, even though DVR Examiner is simple, the answer to this question isn’t.
Brad Barkhurst, a Forensic Specialist Supervisor, recently reviewed his experience with using DVR Examiner in fire investigations.
