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

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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 Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part IV

by Harold Burt-Gerrans In Part 3, I introduced the concept of consolidating duplicates by tracking Metadata at a DocID level and coding and/or document actions at a Document Level. For ease, I’m duplicating part of the example charts here as

What Changes Do We Need To See In eDiscovery? Part IV

by Harold Burt-Gerrans In Part 3, I introduced the concept of consolidating duplicates by tracking Metadata at a DocID level and coding and/or document actions at a Document Level. For ease, I’m duplicating part of the example charts here as

Brett Shavers On DFIR Training And Mental Health In Digital Forensics

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 soft skills. I’m your host, Christa Miller. Our inaugural

Register For Webinar – Addressing The Serious Threat Of Cybercrime

Cybercrime provides its own unique challenges. Every case of fraud, workplace harassment, insider threats, identify theft, data exfiltration, IP theft, network intrusions, malware and ransomware attacks have the potential to devastate not only individuals, but corporations of all sizes. In

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Atola TaskForce Demo

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Uses Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) In Crime Scene Investigations

by Chirath De Alwis and Chamalka De Silva Recent advancements in technology have helped many people to have a better quality of life. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as ‘drones’, are one such technological advancement that can help society

Uses Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) In Crime Scene Investigations

by Chirath De Alwis and Chamalka De Silva Recent advancements in technology have helped many people to have a better quality of life. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as ‘drones’, are one such technological advancement that can help society

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. How can you find login information when the user profile no longer exists? Can you help pronie2121 with a device seizure acquisition problem? How do you verify

Crimes Against Children Conference 2019 Recap Part II: Digital Evidence

By Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Our first article in this two-part series focused on the technology associated with crimes against children: mobile peer-to-peer software; cryptocurrency used to buy and sell child sexual abuse material (CSAM); the virtual worlds where abuse

TikTok Data Extraction In Oxygen Forensic Detective

What is it? TikTok, an emerging app is rapidly gaining popularity. It recently unseated Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat as the top free app in Apple’s App Store . As of Nov. 6 2018, according to industry research firm App Annie,

Comprehending The IoT Cyber Threat Landscape

Morteza Safaei Pour shares his research at DFRWS EU 2019. Morteza: Hello and good morning – my name is Morteza Safaei Pour, from CTI Lab Florida Atlantic University. Today I’m going to talk about comprehending the IoT cyber threat landscape,

Comprehending The IoT Cyber Threat Landscape

Morteza Safaei Pour shares his research at DFRWS EU 2019. Morteza: Hello and good morning – my name is Morteza Safaei Pour, from CTI Lab Florida Atlantic University. Today I’m going to talk about comprehending the IoT cyber threat landscape,

Unlock Mobile Devices Using These Popular Codes

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Webinar: Timesaving Forensic Techniques For Your Next Case

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