Forensic Focus

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members give their advice on investigating the contents of a DVR security camera system. Do you use password breakers in your investigations? Forum members discuss magnetic

Reviewer: Richard Bunnell, Digital Forensics, LLC Executive Summary Lima Laboratory is an amazing product. If I was on a medium to large digital forensics team, I would not hesitate to recommend that this product be purchased and used. A good

There is an “overwhelming” amount of illicit and illegal content on the dark web, a new study shows. That statement might seem self-evident. But the Tor browser – also known as the dark web or deep web – was created

Two-factor authentication is probably the best secure thing since passwords were invented. Two-factor authentication goes a long way towards protecting one’s accounts against being hacked. A password alone, no matter how long or secure, is no longer enough to provide

Reviewed by Clark Walton In January 2014, I took both the Cellebrite Certified Logical Operator (CCLO) and Cellebrite Certified Physical Analyst (CCPA) trainings in a one-week course held in Washington, DC and taught by Cellebrite Certified Instructor, Joe Duke. The

Oxygen Forensics, the worldwide developer and provider of advanced forensic data examination tools for mobile devices, announced today that it is releasing Oxygen Forensic® Detective 8.1 which now offers the complete physical collection of locked Samsung smart devices, as well

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences is currently looking for projects to run as part of the Digital Forensics minor. Projects run for about five months, roughly early February to the end of June. Students spend about 2.5 days per week

Civilian recruits will help police solve cybercrime under an expansion of the role of volunteers in England and Wales, the home secretary has said. The plans include measures to give more power to support staff and volunteers. Forces will be

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members advise digital forensics students on how to get started in the industry. Should you acquire first and then hash, or acquire and hash at the

On 15 and 16 December, law enforcement agencies from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and the United Kingdom joined forces with Europol in the framework of an operation against the cybercriminal group DD4BC (Distributed Denial of Service – DDoS –

A recording of the webinar “Investigating Computer And Mobile Artifacts With New Belkasoft Evidence Center” is now online and available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here.