20th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 20 2025
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Read the latest digital forensics news – SANS releases DFIR Summit playlist, UAC launches v3.2.0, Neal Ysart discusses the Coalition of Cyber Investigators, and more....

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Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

Wrapping Up The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session – What We’ve Covered

20th August 2025

Explore S21 Transcriber: a fully offline, court-ready tool with free 30-day access and training....read more

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

UPCOMING WEBINAR – Retail Under Siege: Fighting Back Against Ransomware With Next-Gen Forensics

19th August 2025

Retailers face rising cyber threats—join Exterro's Sept 4 webinar to learn fast, modern forensic response strategies and protect your brand....read more

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

Digital Forensics Jobs Round-Up, August 18 2025

18th August 2025

Explore a selection of the latest DFIR employment opportunities in this week’s Forensic Focus jobs round-up....read more

How To Decrypt WhatsApp Messages With Oxygen Forensic Detective

Welcome to Oxygen Forensic Detective’s Knowledge Nuggets. In this video we’re going to discuss decrypting WhatsApp messaging. Let’s go over a few very important points that you need to consider before analyzing WhatsApp.  Number one: always place the device in

BlackBag Announces New Live Instructor-Led Virtual Training Courses

BlackBag’s industry-leading courses, Basic Forensic Investigations, Windows Forensic Investigations, and Apple Forensic Investigations are now available as live, virtual courses.BlackBag Technologies, a Cellebrite company, announces new live, instructor-led virtual training to give examiners of all levels the opportunity to experience

Oxygen Forensics Offers Free Remote Trainings During COVID-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our world almost overnight—upending daily routines and disrupting much of the global economy. Unfortunately, crime never takes a day off, not even during times of crisis. Ongoing digital forensics investigations have lost none of their

Samuel Abbott, Software Trainer, Amped Software

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

How To Acquire Cloud Data With MD-CLOUD

‘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

How To Acquire Cloud Data With MD-CLOUD

‘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

Toward Exact And Inexact Approximate Matching Of Executable Binaries

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

Interview With Joe Sylve, Director Of Research And Development, BlackBag

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

Get Audio Redaction In The Latest Amped FIVE Update 16112

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

10 Quick Facts About Oxygen Forensic Cloud Extractor

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

Sarah Edwards On iOS Forensics And APOLLO

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

NIST Test Results For Mobile Device Acquisition Tools – MSAB XRY

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