«What do you send as a console log when contacting customer support? On our end, we often see a vague description of the problem with a photo of the monitor taken with a phone. A legible photo if we’re lucky; a blurred one when we’re not. Screenshots come second, copy-paste from the console third. All […]»

3 November, 2026Oleg Afonin

«iOS Forensic Toolkit 10.12 extracts the full file system image and the decrypted keychain from yet another IoT device: Apple HomePod mini. This is the first file system extraction of the device; the method uses the usbliter8 bootloader exploit and a custom adapter. This guide covers the hardware, the extraction and analysis steps. Know your […]»

9 October, 2026Vladimir Katalov

«We’ve added bootloader-level low-level extraction support for the second-generation Apple TV 4K. While the older 4K model was compatible with the checkm8 exploit, the second-generation is based on a newer SoC that required a newer exploit, usbliter8. The exploit requires a custom adapter that uses a microcontroller board with our custom firmware. Extracting the Apple […]»

24 September, 2026Vladimir Katalov