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by Michael R. Godfrey The μTorrent software client is the most popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer software application worldwide. Contraband files such as copyrighted movies and music, child pornography and pirated content, are frequently acquired through the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol

Vassil Roussev discusses Christopher Stelly's research at DFRWS EU 2018. One of the long-standing conceptual problems in digital forensics is the dichotomy between the imperative for verifiable and reproducible forensic computations, and the lack of adequate mechanisms to accomplish these

Magnet AXIOM is an all-in-one digital forensics tool that lets examiners analyse evidence from both computer and mobile devices in the same case. Some of the latest features, along with points of comparison with Magnet’s Internet Evidence Finder, are outlined

It’s the last week of submissions for the DFRWS EU 2019 call for papers. The Passware Kit Forensic tool from Passware has introduced the ability to recover Bitcoin wallet passwords. A post on Initialization Vectors demonstrates how to perform digital

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. What is anti-forensics, how can we prove its relevance to an investigation, and how much of a challenge is it to the industry? Add your thoughts in

Sheldon, you're VP of Sales at BlackBag. Tell us about your role: what does a day in your life look like? At BlackBag, I am responsible for the revenue of the entire company. I plan and work with several other

by Chet Hosmer, Joshua Bartolomie and Rosanne Pelli Reviewed by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus Ensuring the integrity of evidence is one of the most important parts of the digital forensic investigation process, and yet according to some reports it

Email evidence often plays a pivotal role in digital forensics investigations and eDiscovery. When preserving emails from the cloud, forensics experts have to consider issues such as multi-factor authentication, running-in-place searches on the server before the acquisition, handling server errors

by Angus M. Marshall & Richard Paige During a project to examine the potential usefulness of evidence of tool verification as part of method validation for ISO 17025 accreditation, the authors have examined requirements statements in several digital forensic method

by Scar de Courcier Susteen’s Data Pilot 10 aims to make it easier for digital forensic examiners to acquire evidence from mobile devices in the field and analyse it back in the lab. In this review we will take a