What's new in BEC v.9.1

Belkasoft Evidence Center 2018 v.9.1 (or, in short, BEC) is an all-on-one forensic solution, combining computer, RAM, mobile and cloud forensics in a single tool. Given its affordable price, it is one of the best choices among other available products on the market.

Version 9.1 of BEC 2018 features a number of usability and performance improvements. Among the major ones are:

• Performance of predefined searches improved
• Many improvements in report generation
• Date and time format setting introduced. Selected format is used in the product interface and reports
• Offline license activation made simpler
• Support for audio files added
• Email attachment data type detection improved
• Multiple USB dongles can be listed in a single license file (thus you can use any of purchased dongles without replacing license)
• A pack of new and updated computer and mobile artifacts included

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Upgrading to version 9.1 is free to all customers with a non-expired Extended Software Maintenance and Support contract. File System module must be purchased separately. Customers without a current contract can purchase it from the Customer Portal. An affordable User Refresher Course is also available for those who would like to catch up on all recent improvements.

Other improvements in v.9.1

User Interface

• List of encrypted files automatically refreshes when a correct password is found
• All not categorized files are moved to "Other files" node (e.g. email attachments or document embedded files which are not pictures or other supported types of artifacts)
• Search terms are properly highlighted
• A language selected whilst the product installation is now used as a default BEC interface language
• Record count is shown for each table in SQLite Viewer

Issues fixed

• Geodata from iOS GetTaxi app is not included into Timeline: fixed
• Possibility to sort pictures/documents in Galery view restored
• Webmail cloud downloading, only mails from Inbox were downloaded: fixed
• Tooltip does not work on Google Maps tab as an incorrect cluster displayed: fixed
• PhotoDNA deduplication failure fixed for some cases
• BEC is not responding after Expand All click in Registry Viewer: fixed
• Index file in reports contains absolute paths: fixed
• Out of memory during EML report generation: fixed
• Duplicates in predefined search results: fixed

New and updated apps

As usual, each new version of BEC supports a few dozens of new and updated versions of various applications and formats. Here what we have supported or updated in v.9.1:

• Shareaza
• Zello
• Windows Notifications
• Firefox
• Chrome
• Twitter
• Yahoo! mail
• Yandex mail
• UC browser
• Browser 360
• Facebook contacts
• Samsung browser
• Memo notes