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

Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge From A Forensic Point Of View

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,

Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge From A Forensic Point Of View

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,

Forensic Pattern Of Life Analysis

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Pattern of life analysis isn’t a new concept to anyone who’s ever been involved with intelligence, in particular surveillance. It’s all about the habits that people — suspects, persons of interest, crime victims, or those

Forensic Pattern Of Life Analysis

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Pattern of life analysis isn’t a new concept to anyone who’s ever been involved with intelligence, in particular surveillance.  It’s all about the habits that people — suspects, persons of interest, crime victims, or those

BlackBag Announces Release of MacQuisition 2020 R1

MacQuisition brings together the most comprehensive Apple imaging with new live and booted triaging of Apple devices, in industry-leading release.BlackBag Technologies, a Cellebrite company, announces the release of MacQuisition 2020 R1, adding triage capabilities to their industry-leading acquisition and forensic

FORMOBILE Survey: Law Enforcement Officers’ Requirements For Training

For a project that promises great leaps in the development of mobile forensic related technologies, and a complete guide to the practices and standards that professionals in Europe should follow, the necessary training to support these initiatives is critical! That

Australian Police: XAMN Helped Solve Armed Robbery

By: Jeremy Byers, a police investigator in Australia This post was originally written and published on the MSAB blog I have been employed as a member of the Australian Federal Police and the South Australian Police since 2008. Most of

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Can you tell whether files have been copied from one USB to another? What temperature should your forensic lab be? How do you process large amounts of

What’s Happening In Forensics – Feb 20, 2020

Nominations are open for the 2020 Forensic 4:Cast awards. FireEye discuss how to correlate user search LNK files. Group IB share a forensic view of Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. ElcomSoft release iOS Forensic Toolkit 5.30, including jailbreak-free extraction for multiple Apple

Register For Webinar: Triaging Digital Evidence With MacQuisition

Have you ever served a search warrant and stared at the mountainous amount of digital media collected and wondered how much is actually related to your investigation? Or, have you had to undertake terabytes of storage media and wondered if

Interview With Steve Lin, President, Susteen

Steve, you've been Susteen's president for a little more than two years. Tell us more about what led you to the company and what appealed to you about leading it. The reason I joined the company is because we can

Steve Lin, President, Susteen

Steve, you've been Susteen's president for a little more than two years. Tell us more about what led you to the company and what appealed to you about leading it. The reason I joined the company is because we can

What’s Happening In Forensics – Feb 19, 2020

Belkasoft now supports checkm8 acquisition. Cellebrite share a case study showing how extraction of deleted videos can help in criminal investigations. Peter M. Stewart shares a round-up of Defcon 2019 DFIR CTF.

Oxygen Forensics Introduces Partnership With Latent Wireless

Oxygen Forensics announces Oxygen Forensics Detective 12.2 update, including import features for Instagram and Facebook warrants, advanced iOS and Android OS extraction capabilities Oxygen Forensics, a global leader in digital forensics for law enforcement, federal, and corporate clients, today announced

NIST Tests Forensic Methods For Getting Data From Damaged Mobile Phones

by Richard Press Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy evidence. They might smash, shoot, submerge or cook their phones, but forensics experts can often retrieve the evidence anyway. Now, researchers at the National Institute of