Elcomsoft Phone Breaker is a universal tool for extracting data from backups and cloud storage of mobile devices running iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10. The tool allows law enforcement experts to access password-protected backups or download data from cloud storage. The utility supports all BlackBerry smartphones right up to the BlackBerry 10 and all portable devices on the Apple iOS platform, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch of all generations and versions up to 7 and their Plus versions.

Volatility is a well know collection of tools used to extract digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM). PassMark Software has released Volatility Workbench to aid the use of Volatility with OSForensics.

Daniel Pistelli shared a short post about Windows memory forensics on OSX. He described a piece of software called Profiler.

The file system is the contents of the notepad, and the file is the word. For hard disks in a PC at the moment, two file systems are most common: FAT or NTFS. First FAT (FAT16) appeared, then FAT32, and then NTFS.