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How To Combat The UK’s Growing Forensics Backlog

Forensic backlogs are an increasing concern for many law enforcement agencies. Agencies must shift from simply collecting digital evidence to effectively analyzing the digital evidence collected. Media analysis is time-intensive and requires training to ensure that all pieces of evidentiary

Types Of Devices Examined In Digital Forensics Investigations

Today, digital forensic investigators must be adept at extracting evidence from an array of devices, each with unique structures, operating systems, storage capabilities, and security features. A case involving a desktop computer, for example, may require an understanding of operating

The Power Of Auto Asset Tagging In DFIR

When a breach occurs one of the first questions the investigating team leader will want answered is, ‘how many of our assets could this potentially impact or has it already impacted?’ To best answer that question you’ll need to know

Analysing Dating Apps Using Oxygen Forensic Detective

Hey everyone. It’s Ryan from your Oxygen Forensic Training team, and welcome back to another Oxycast Webinar. In this webinar, as you can see on screen, we are going to discuss dating apps. During this Oxycast, we will look at

Amped Replay – Video Evidence Made Easy. And Safe!

Handling and storing Digital Media Evidence has plagued Law Enforcement agencies around the world for far too long. Copious amounts of discs, media cards and USB drives containing Police evidence in the form of video and audio recordings have come

How To Start A Career In Digital Forensics

Digital forensics is an exciting and rapidly growing field that deals with the investigation and recovery of digital evidence from electronic devices. As cybercrimes continue to increase, so does the demand for skilled digital forensics professionals. This article will provide

How To Use The Validation Tool In Amped FIVE

In this how-to guide, we will cover validation and accreditation, the process of generating a dataset, and how to use the new Validation Tool incorporated into Amped FIVE. Validation of forensic processes has always been an imperative task for Forensic

ChatGPT: A Digital Sleuth For Detectives?

By Hans Henseler, Professor of Digital Forensics & E-Discovery, University of Leiden Applied Sciences, and Senior Digital Forensic Scientist at the Netherlands Forensic Institute. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a gamechanger for a safer society. Its deployment will dramatically change

Cyacomb Examiner Product Demonstration

A software interface on a laptop screen provides color coded indications of content present on a scanned device
So we’re in this situation where a search warrant has been executed in relation to illegal images in a residential property. The search has recovered a number of items: we have a laptop from which I’ve removed the hard drive,

How To Do Context Analysis of Digital Images in Amped Authenticate

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By Marco Fontani, Forensics Director at Amped Software For several years, researchers and people in the field of image and video processing have been saying that “seeing is no longer believing”. Image and video manipulation techniques have become powerful and

User Searches in Oxygen Forensic Detective

Amanda Mahan: Hey, welcome back to another Oxygen Forensic webinar. This is Amanda Mahan from the Oxygen Forensic training team. In this video, we’re going to go over the brand new section: user searches. So starting here on the home

When Did It Happen? Dealing With Timestamps in Amped FIVE

By David Spreadborough – Forensic Video Analyst at Amped Software There are several common components within a CCTV Video file. This article from Amped Software is going to dive into the data that links the image to the time when

Digital Forensics Research Update: May 2022

Research published last month covered a wide range of issues in digital forensics, from limitations and challenges to new tools and techniques and lessons for those in higher education. Digital forensic techniques, now and in the future The National Institute