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Automating And Sharing Digital Forensics Knowledge Through Hansken

What if you could automate digital forensics processes, centralize them, and then offer them at scale through the internet? Researchers at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) set out to answer the first question—then took the path through the second and

FTK Feature Focus: Optimizing Processing Options Part 2

Justin Tolman: Episode five, and we’re already doing a sequel. We’re taking another look at optimizing our processing in FTK Feature Focus. Welcome back. This is episode five of Feature Focus. I’m Justin Tolman. I’m the Director of Training over

FTK Feature Focus: Optimizing FTK Processing Options Part 1

Justin Tolman: If you or someone you love selects all the options in processing with FTK, so they won’t miss anything, then this episode’s for you! Episode four of FTK Feature Focus, we’ll come back to FTK Feature Focus episode

How To Detect Tampered Images On Social Media Via Shadows Analysis

Image and video authenticity verification is one of the most prominent challenges nowadays in digital forensics. The rapid proliferation of all sorts of image manipulation software, together with the increasing popularity of deepfakes, make it so that seeing is no

Digital Forensics Standards In Q1 2021

The items in our roundup this spring build on many of the updates from our January roundup, including new drafts available for public comment and additional work on standardization projects in the United Kingdom and European Union. Additionally, a development

Lessons Learned In Digital Forensics Standardization: United Kingdom

Should digital forensics be standardized? Can it be standardized successfully? These questions have been hotly debated for a number of years, perhaps never more so than in recent years as digital forensics has become increasingly important in both criminal and

The State of Contemporary Digital Investigations – Part 1

Written By: Scott Johnson Digital investigations have undergone a geometric progression of complexity since my first fledgling technology investigations during the 90s. In those early years, a competent digital forensics professional only needed to know how to secure, acquire and

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part IX

This is the third part of “How to deal with Structured Data”. In case you missed it, the previous part is here. Picking up from where we left off… Step 3 Now that we have our formatted text files, there

Research Roundup: New Digital Forensic Insights And Opportunities

February’s research in digital forensics isn’t just about the papers presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)’ annual meeting, or those published in the various journals. Last month also saw new research opportunities, either for an impact study