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Brian Moran talks about how photoshop can facilitate forensic analysis. DME Forensics talk about how to recover inaccessible DVR data with DVR Examiner. Chris Dale shares Jérôme Torres-Lozano’s thoughts on multilingual ediscovery.

Tell us about how you first got into digital forensics, and what kept you in the field. How have you seen it evolve over the past 20 years? The cliché is that many folks that ended up as a LEO

BlackBag Technologies announces a new partnership with Semantics 21, a digital forensics software company specializing in reviewing, analyzing and grading images and videos. The partnership enables both BlackBag and Semantics 21 to deliver unrivaled investigation speed without sacrificing reliability or

Atola show how to wipe 18 devices simultaneously with TaskForce. Cellebrite talk about the problem of push-button forensics and why it’s important for teams to be knowledgeable about the technology behind the tools they’re using. MSAB have released XRY 7.12.3.

Amped Software, a leading developer of forensic image and video analysis solutions used by law enforcement and government agencies worldwide, today announced the latest update to Amped FIVE (Revision 13609), the complete software solution to process and analyze digital video

Rich, tell us about how you first got into digital forensics, and the evolution you've seen in the field over the past 17 years. What has interested you most and kept you in the field? I spent 22 years in

Passware Kit 2019 v3 instantly decrypts LUKS volumes via live memory analysis, extracts passwords and other data from macOS High Sierra keychains, and is twice as fast in recovering iTunes backup passwords on GPU than previous versions. The new version

Thom Langford talks about mental health in DFIR and cybersecurity. Vladimir Katalov from ElcomSoft shares his thoughts on Apple TV and Apple Watch acquisition. Wired discusses how facial recognition is being used to investigate child abuse cases. Rishi Khullar of

Vladimir Katalov talks about the most unusual things about iPhone backups. Sarah Edwards has shared her demo of APOLLO, a simple tool for advanced forensic analysis. Cellebrite share how AI image categorisation and text analysis detected a narcotics market on

Andrea Fortuna has added a new ‘Inbox’ section to the weekly round-up. Cellebrite’s UFED tool has been in the news following claims that it can unlock most iPhone and Android handsets. DME Forensics explain how to ensure their DVR Examiner

by Patrick Doody Let me start by introducing myself. I’m Patrick, 39 years of age and from a working-class background. I’ve lived in London all my life, my parents moved to the UK from Southern Ireland when they were young

Griffeye, one of the world’s premier platforms for managing, building and sharing digital media intelligence, and used by law enforcement agencies across the world, today announced the release of Griffeye Intelligence Database (GID).This new database will replace the previous Griffeye

The Eclectic Light Company share a directory of all the free software that’s available via their site. Marcos Fuentes Martínez argues that the price we pay for rapid data extraction is the loss of potentially important data. Rushit Soni shows

West Midlands Police have come under fire for advertising unpaid digital forensics roles, which include looking at IIOC. Graeme Horsman shares his paper on the need for research on digital artefacts. Kristian Lars Larsen discusses the future of AI in

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Is there a generic reader for smart card forensics? Forum members discuss setupapi.offline.log. What tools would you recommend for pulling data from iCloud? Is there any way

Sytech have lost their accreditation after being discovered contracting work out to Fun Fone Shop. Alexis Brignoni talks about the Samsung My Files app. Oleg Afonin writes about the forensic implications of iOS jailbreaking on the Elcomsoft blog. Cellebrite share