A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views:
DFRWS EU 2026 Highlights Memory Forensics Research
DFRWS EU 2026 spotlights memory forensics with a Wednesday program covering volatile acquisition and structural analysis. Sessions also address evidence resilience in live systems and symmetric key extraction from memory. DFIR teams can use the agenda to target relevant talks and training.
Into The Light Index 2025 Flags Escalating CSAM Risks For DFIR
Childlight’s Into the Light Index 2025 pegs technology-facilitated abuse at massive scale, estimating 300 million children affected yearly. Findings flag rising AI-generated CSAM, uneven laws, and slow takedowns that keep known imagery circulating. For digital forensic investigators, growing volume and complexity add to moral injury and burnout risks.
House Of Lords Report Renews Calls To Rethink Digital Forensics
A House of Lords report warns UK forensic science is strained and under-funded. Digital forensics, with data-rich devices and cloud accounts, drives investigative decisions and should not be treated as a lab-only function. Misfit structures fuel backlogs and delays, leaving victims waiting for justice.
Read more (publications.parliament.uk)
ADF Pro Webinar Explores Landeck Ruling Compliance With Targeted Searches
ADF Solutions’ webinar explains how the EU’s Landeck ruling raises the bar for lawful device searches. It stresses prior independent authorization, proportionality, and documentation to protect admissibility. Demonstrations show ADF Pro search profiles enabling targeted collection, while version 6.3 adds deletion of acquisitions and sanitized previews for hash hits.
iOS 26.2 Restores shutdown.log Persistence For Mobile Forensics
Apple’s iOS 26.2 preserves shutdown.log across reboots, restoring a key iPhone forensic artifact. Investigators can again correlate unexpected shutdowns, crashes, and reboots with suspected spyware activity. The change improves visibility for threat hunting and post-incident mobile triage.
How Agencies Sustain Long-Term Digital Forensics Funding
Agencies face rising costs to keep digital forensics tools running, from licenses to training and maintenance. Funding models vary from dedicated budget lines to shared tech funds, grants, or ad hoc purchases. A Magnet Forensics Virtual Summit session will cover making a credible case for mobile forensics resources.
Digital Forensics In The AI And Cloud Era: Women Leading The Next Shift
EC-Council schedules a March 18, 2026 webinar on AI and cloud forensics. Speaker Amber Schroader of Paraben Corporation will discuss how multi-cloud assets and automated systems strain evidence acquisition, investigation timelines, and chain-of-custody. Focus areas include cloud-native methods, AI-assisted analysis, forensic readiness, incident response, and regulatory alignment.
1971’s First Computer Search Warrant Shows Early Digital Search Concerns
A 1971 computer search warrant highlights how investigators already worried about narrowly defining searches as systems stored more data. Courts and practitioners still face the same tension between technical limits, overbreadth, and intangible data. The document offers useful context for today’s warrant drafting and review.
E-Discovery Tools “Breaking at the Seams” in Gen AI Era: Jerry Bui
Purpose Legal SVP Jerry Bui says gen‑AI data growth is stressing e‑discovery tools. He sees infrastructure straining as evidence volumes surge. Meanwhile, forensic teams adjust workflows, and DFIR leaders may need more capacity to avoid stalled reviews.
