Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

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Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....

Halfway Through The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session

Halfway Through The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session

We are halfway through the S21 Transcriber Spotlight — catch up on the latest demos and see how investigators are using the tool in real casework....read more

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

Protecting children online shouldn't come at the cost of investigators' mental health—see how Detego Global is changing the game....read more

Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

Semantics 21 is renaming their groundbreaking CSAM forensics tool—and your idea could win your team a free year of access....read more

What’s Happening In Forensics – Nov 19, 2019

NirSoft release a new tool, MobileFileSearch, allowing users to search files on a mobile device attached to their computer. Arman Gungor shares some updates to Forensic Email Collector. DFRWS has a brand new website – take a look and register

Walkthrough: XRY Photon Manual

XRY Photon is a solution designed for recovering smartphone app data that’s inaccessible through normal extraction techniques. Now the power of XRY Photon has been expanded to cover hundreds of additional apps, with a new manual option. Before using XRY

How To Use Griffeye Brain – Artificial Intelligence

The Griffeye Brain in Analyze DI Pro version 19.2 brings the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to help you quickly locate and identify child sex abuse material within your investigations.In addition, the Griffeye Brain now has improved object

Walkthrough: XRY Photon Manual

XRY Photon is a solution designed for recovering smartphone app data that’s inaccessible through normal extraction techniques. Now the power of XRY Photon has been expanded to cover hundreds of additional apps, with a new manual option. Before using XRY

How To Use Griffeye Brain – Artificial Intelligence

The Griffeye Brain in Analyze DI Pro version 19.2 brings the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to help you quickly locate and identify child sex abuse material within your investigations. In addition, the Griffeye Brain now has improved

BlackBag Partners With Passware To Provide Full Disk Decryption In New Release

BlackBag Technologies announces a new partnership with the leader in encrypted electronic evidence discovery and decryption, Passware.BlackBag Technologies announced a partnership with Passware ahead of the upcoming release of BlackLight. BlackLight quickly analyzes computer volumes and mobile devices to shed

What’s Happening In Forensics – Nov 18, 2019

Amber Schroader of Paraben discusses smartphone forensics and the Internet of Things. Magnet are now offering a new training course, in conjuncton with Grayshift. Shellbags support has now been added to USB Detective.

Three Reasons Why Call Detail Records Analysis Is Not “Junk Science”

by Patrick Siewert, Principal Consultant, Pro Digital Forensic Consulting Since introducing our private sector clients to the impact that cellular call detail records (CDR) analysis & mapping can have on their cases, we’ve had a lot of robust discussions with

Review: MacQuisition From BlackBag

by Jade James MacQuisition is an effective 3-in-1 tool which provides the facility to acquire data live from a running system, as well as offering targeted data collection and forensic imaging. MacQuisition runs on Mac OS X and safely boots

MacQuisition From BlackBag

by Jade James MacQuisition is an effective 3-in-1 tool which provides the facility to acquire data live from a running system, as well as offering targeted data collection and forensic imaging. MacQuisition runs on Mac OS X and safely boots

Joe Walsh On Private Browsing Data And Teaching Digital Forensics Online

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

Webinar: New Triage Capabilities In BlackLight

Quickly triage systems with new BlackLight features in this upcoming webinar with BlackBag Technologies and Passware, Inc.Register for BlackBag and Passware’s upcoming webinar to learn how the latest improvements to BlackLight allow examiners to more quickly triage systems. In this

How To Save Time With XAMN’s Dynamic Artifact Count Feature

At MSAB, we’re always looking to improve our software and make every product more user-friendly, intuitive, and valuable; and to help save you time. We’ve recently improved the way that XAMN displays and counts artifacts. Let’s take a look at