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Samuel, congratulations on your new role! Tell us more about your career with the Royal Military Police. How did you come to be a video analysis expert? Thank you! It is a very exciting move for me. My career began

‘17.5 Zettabytes.’ This is the amount of data that the IDC estimates will be generated annually by 2025, and among those numbers, cloud traffic is expected to grow and reach 18.9 Zettabytes by 2021. This tremendous amount of cloud data

Lorenz Liebler discusses his research at DFRWS EU 2019. The application of approximate matching (a.k.a. fuzzy hashing or similarity hashing) is often considered in the field of malware or binary analysis. Recent research showed major weaknesses of predominant fuzzy hashing

Joe, your BlackBag profile describes how you "drive innovation and pursue emerging areas of research" as Director of Research & Development. Can you describe for us what your day-to-day looks like? Usually I’m managing shifting priorities, so there’s not always

Amped Software announced the release of another update to Amped FIVE, our one-stop toolkit for all your video and image enhancement needs. Update 16112 includes some exciting new features. Our users will be happy to know that Amped FIVE now

In October 2014, Oxygen Forensics changed the DFIR landscape by bringing the first Cloud extraction tool to the forensic industry. This innovative, and included utility, was available within the powerful Oxygen Forensic® Detective software and allowed acquisition of data from

Christa: Hello and welcome to the Forensic Focus podcast. Monthly we interview experts from the digital forensics and incident response community on a host of topics ranging from technical aspects to career soft skills. I’m your host, Christa Miller. Today

The results are out. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has published its report on the performance of XRY 8.1.0 in recovering and analyzing mobile device data using JTAG and chip off methods. This is part of NIST’s

Francis, tell us about your product development role. Where did you work previously, and what drew you to Susteen? I always enjoy a good David versus Goliath challenge and have had the privilege over the last 25 years to work

by Christa Miller In the second half of 2019, a set of hirings made some waves in the digital forensics community. First, in July, Cellebrite hired well-known SANS Senior Instructor Heather Mahalik. Then in August, Mike Williamson joined Jessica Hyde,

by Oxygen Forensics What’s Checkm8? Checkm8 is an exploit (program exploiting OS or hardware vulnerabilities) aimed at obtaining access to the execution of its own software code at the earliest stage of iOS device loading. What makes it stand out?

by Jade James BlackLight is a simple but smart investigation tool which allows examiners to quickly analyse computer systems and mobile devices. Searching is made easy with advanced filtering to sift through large data sets. The tool is aimed at

Laura Sanchez discusses her research at DFRWS US 2019. Hello, I’m Laura Sanchez and I’m a graduate researcher at the University of New Haven. And I’ll be presenting the results of our survey that was conducted by my colleagues. Our

13Cubed share a memory forensics challenge. Petr Stuchlík discusses SMB endpoint fingerprinting. DFRWS share presentations from last year’s US conference. Ryan Benson shares some digital forensics writing tips.

Josh Hickman shares his research at DFRWS US 2019. Josh: My name is Josh Hickman. I am the forensic scientist manager for the digital evidence section in the North Carolina state crime lab. And I am here this morning to

by Oleg Skulkin & Svetlana Ostrovskaya Recently Microsoft finally released the Chromium-based version of Edge Browser, so it seems we’ll miss ESE databases soon (not). Of course, it may have a similar set of forensic artifacts to Chromium or Chrome,