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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

How To Use Facial Recognition In Oxygen Forensic Detective

Hey everybody, time for a new knowledge nugget. This one is pertaining to facial recognition. We’ve just updated to 13.3 and there have been huge changes and improvements. Just watch. The first improvement that I want to show you would

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

This is the second part of “How to Deal with Structured Data.” In case you missed it, the previous part is here. Before I move onto transforming proprietary databases, let me add this point to packaged application data which I

Industry Roundup: Mobile Field Triage Solutions

The ability to collect digital evidence in the field — away from a forensic laboratory — has long been a need in corporate, private, and law enforcement investigations. That’s only accelerated over the past decade, as more people’s mobile devices

Digital Forensics Research Looks To The Future

January was a somewhat light month in the way of digital forensics research publication, though the introduction of an Asia-Pacific (APAC) installment of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) conference more than made up for it. This month we feature

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

Harold Burt-Gerrans talks about how to deal with structured data in ediscovery cases. I’m baaaaa–ack! And you thought I was done with my earlier six-part series, but I have a new topic toadd to my rants and raves. For review,

A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of Counter UAV Analysis

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are as fraught as they are fascinating. For every hobbyist flying a drone around the neighborhood on a sunny weekend, there is a neighbor concerned with whether a system’s onboard camera is spying on