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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

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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

FTK Feature Focus: Project Vic

Justin Tolman: Welcome to this week’s episode of FTK Feature Focus. This week we have another special episode with a special guest: Dan Sumpter, who’s the principal instructor at Exterro over North America. Dan, how are you doing? Dan: Hey,

How to Search Images for Text Values Using OCR

Hello, everyone. Jordan here with the Oxygen Forensic training team. Today, I’m gonna show you how to search images for text values using optical character recognition. Let’s get started. In today’s video, I’ll be discussing what OCR is and providing

Hex Searching in Oxygen Forensic Detective

Hey there, detectives. Welcome to Oxygen Forensics How-To series, where your Oxygen Forensic training team will provide you with detailed insight into focused areas within Oxygen Forensic Detective. For this video, we are going to dive into using the Hex

March’s Spread of Digital Forensics Research Examines Implementation

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Apart from the papers presented at the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS), March also saw additional work from around the globe. This month’s roundup takes a look at: Integrating cognitive psychology into forensic practiceResearch exploring how digital forensic evidence is

DFRWS-EU 2022: The Future of Digital Forensics Is Now

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Moving digital forensics forward in terms of methods and frameworks, as well as organizational and cross-cultural collaboration, was an overarching theme of this year’s European Union edition of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS).  After 40 years, mainstays like file