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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 –

With the release of UFED 4.5, Cellebrite announces support for 18,290 device profiles and 1,270 app versions. The recent release brings industry first access to 11 additional Motorola Android devices, logical extraction via Bluetooth from any Android, and enhanced decoding

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.

After receiving a call to provide an evaluation on EnCase Forensic v7 Software, I started thinking of my case work on computer and mobile forensic analysis and the all tools that I have used over the years. The most commonly

Organised criminals are using apps and encrypted messaging to evade police, senior officers believe. The issue has been described as the biggest challenge facing police focused on breaking up organised crime groups. Police Scotland said they made more than 2,100

Within just six months, Cellebrite’s UFED Link Analysis tool has saved the Boulder Police Department hundreds of hours in investigative time.Cell phones have become an invaluable tool to not only the people who use them, but to law enforcement officers

Reviewed by Mitch Impey A few weeks ago I volunteered to do a review of the HddSurgery tools as I have been fascinated with the mechanics of hard drives since I started working with computers over 25 years ago. I

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Board-Level Concerns Force Increased Security Spending to Manage Insider Threats, Survey FindsGlobal security intelligence and information management technology company Nuix has released the findings from a new survey of corporate information security practitioners that indicates a move toward a stronger

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. announces the release of Elcomsoft Cloud eXplorer, a digital forensic tool for acquiring data from Google accounts. Implementing over-the-air acquisition of information collected by the search giant, Elcomsoft Cloud eXplorer provides access to users’ search history, contacts,

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Is it possible to physically image a device over wifi? Forum members discuss resetting Toshiba BIOS passwords. Which Linux tools would you recommend to speed up file carving?

IntaForensics are leaders in digital forensic case and laboratory management solutions, having commercially released their flagship Lima product in 2009. Occasionally, a change comes that truly changes the way that organizations approach the management not only of their cases, but