13th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 13 2025
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Read the latest DFIR news – evidence of Kohberger’s detailed murder preparations, an alarming rise in child sextortion cases, Brian Carrier’s new mini-course on automation and AI in forensics, and more....

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Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

Well-Being In Digital Forensics And Policing: Insights From Hannah Bailey

12th August 2025

Hannah Bailey shares her journey from frontline policing to founding Blue Light Wellbeing, explaining why culturally-aware mental health support is crucial for DFIs and frontline workers....read more

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

Oxygen Tech Bytes In July 2025

12th August 2025

Level up your DFIR skills in under 20 minutes with Oxygen Tech Bytes’ expert-led, on-demand webinars....read more

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

Neal Ysart, Co-Founder, The Coalition Of Cyber Investigators

11th August 2025

Neal Ysart shares how The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tackles OSINT integrity, complex investment fraud, and the rise of AI-driven scams....read more

What’s Happening In Forensics – Nov 20, 2019

Oleg Afonin talks about the forensic analysis of Synology NAS devices. Alexis Brignoni shares a realm database storage primer for digital forensic examiners. Amped show how to resize images with Amped Replay. Passware announce a new partnership with BlackBag. OpenText

How To Use Magnet AXIOM In Mac USB Investigations

Hey everyone, Trey Amick from Magnet Forensics here. Today we’re talking about Mac USB investigations, and what happens when we’ve been alerted that a USB has been inserted into an end point. Different organisations handle USB policies differently. Some have

How To Use Magnet AXIOM In Mac USB Investigations

Hey everyone, Trey Amick from Magnet Forensics here. Today we’re talking about Mac USB investigations, and what happens when we’ve been alerted that a USB has been inserted into an end point. Different organisations handle USB policies differently. Some have

Can Your Investigation Interpret Emoji?

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Emoji are everywhere — including in your evidence. Used across private-messaging apps and email, social media, and even in passwords and account names, emoji are pictographic representations of objects, moods, and words. They’re a convenient

Can Your Investigation Interpret Emoji?

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Emoji are everywhere — including in your evidence. Used across private-messaging apps and email, social media, and even in passwords and account names, emoji are pictographic representations of objects, moods, and words. They’re a convenient

Viber Messenger Extraction In Oxygen Forensic Detective

Viber is a cross-platform voice over IP and instant messaging software operated by Rakuten. The software app is provided as freeware for Android, Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux platforms. Initially the messenger was developed in 2010 by the

French Agency Uses Chip-Off Technique To Solve A Critical Case

By: Christophe Gabay, MSAB Area Sales Manager Recovering data from mobile devices continues to bring new challenges to investigators, and using “chip-off” and Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) methods have become topics of growing interest in the law enforcement community.

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.