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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

We have collected thousands of pattern lock codes for Android using our Burner Breaker technology and we have discovered the top gesture codes used to UNLOCK Android devices. For example, the most popular pattern lock code is 3 2 5

Webinar: Timesaving Forensic Techniques For Your Next Case

A new webinar, Timesaving Forensic Techniques For Your Next Case, is available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Read More

Timesaving Forensic Techniques For Your Next Case

Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Julie O’Shea: Hi everyone, thanks for joining today’s webinar: Timesaving Forensic Techniques For Your Next Case. My name is Julie O’Shea, and I’m

Clearing The Way With Magnet OUTRIDER

Magnet Forensics is proud to introduce Magnet OUTRIDER — a new and easy way for officers and investigators to check devices for digital contraband. OUTRIDER is an intuitive preview tool that quickly scans smartphones and computers to determine if there

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

by Harold Burt-Gerrans At the end of Part 2, I put forth an argument that de-duplication should always be done globally to bring the data set down to just unique documents. And now that you’re convinced (or should have been)

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

by Harold Burt-Gerrans Duplicative Documents At the end of Part 2, I put forth an argument that de-duplication should always be done globally to bring the data set down to just unique documents. And now that you’re convinced (or should

Crimes Against Children Conference 2019 Recap Part I: Technology

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus Celebrating its 31st year, the Crimes Against Children Conference ran from 12-15 July 2019 in Dallas, Texas. The conference kicked off with opening remarks by Lynn M. Davis, President and Chief Executive Officer of the

Crimes Against Children Conference 2019 Recap Part I: Technology

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus  Celebrating its 31st year, the Crimes Against Children Conference ran from 12-15 July 2019 in Dallas, Texas. The conference kicked off with opening remarks by Lynn M. Davis, President and Chief Executive Officer of the